There are two ways to validate salary entries:

• You can warn users when they enter a salary proposal that is outside a valid range defined for an employee's grade. This approach uses grade rate ranges.

• You can prevent users from approving a salary that is outside a valid range, or that fails validation performed by a formula. Notice that this validation is not performed until you try to approve a salary proposal. This approach uses element input value validation.

   To validate salaries against grade rate ranges:

1. Create a salary grade rate and enter minimum, maximum, and midpoint values for each grade.

   See: Defining a Grade Rate

2. When you define the salary basis, select your salary grade rate.

   See: Defining a Salary Basis

3. Assign your employees to grades.

   To validate salaries using input value validation:

1. If you want to validate salaries using a formula, create your formula in the Write Formulas window.

   See: Writing Formulas for Validation

2. When you define an input value for the salary element, you can select a formula to perform validation, or you can enter minimum and maximum valid values.

   See: Creating a Salary Element

3. If you want to vary the validation for different groups of employees, you can enter validation criteria in the Link Input Values window.

   See: Linking the Salary Element