What you need to know
Sandia’s annual compensation review takes place after year-end performance management reviews.
Managers review base salary and variable pay based on your 9-Block rating, and then make compensation recommendations for your merit increase and variable pay award for the year.
Recommendations and final increases and awards must fit within the annual salary budget guidelines from the Department of Energy (DOE).
2022 Compensation Review Cycle
Managers will have write access to the Comp Tool for the 2022 Compensation Review Cycle. The Comp Tool will continue to pre-load the merit and variable pay recommendations as it did last year. Process specific guidance and principles for the 2022 Compensation Review Cycle will be provided at a later date.
Key Dates
Below are the key dates for 2022.
| Date | Activity |
| Sept. 1 | Freeze date for performance and compensation. New employees hired on or after this date are not included in the FY22 performance and compensation cycle. |
| Nov. 8-25 (estimate) | Comp Tool open: managers review the preloaded merit increases and variable pay awards. |
| Nov. 25 | Last day for managers to modify merit increases and variable pay awards in the Comp Tool. |
| Dec. 30 | Effective date for merit increases. |
| Jan. 6, 2023 | Merit compensation notices and High Performance Incentive Plan variable pay compensation notices available to managers. |
| Jan. 6 – Jan. 13, 2023 |
Manager/employee merit and High Performance Incentive Plan variable pay compensation discussion. |
| Jan. 16, 2023 | Compensation notices systematically released to employees. |
| Jan. 19, 2023 | Payout date for employee merit increases and High Performance Incentive Plan variable pay awards. To receive the payment, employees must be active, on-roll, and in an eligible, non-represented position on the last day of the pay period, Jan. 12, 2023. |
| Jan. 30, 2023 | Management Incentive Plan compensation notices available to managers. |
| TBD | Management Incentive Plan compensation notices automatically released to eligible managers. |
| TBD | Payout date for Management Incentive Plan variable pay awards. To receive the payment, employees must be active, on-roll, and in an eligible, non-represented position on the last day of the pay period. |
See Non-Represented Performance Management for key dates related to that process.
Resources
You will need access to Sandia’s internal web in order to view these resources. 2022 Manager resources are locked down to specific metagroups.
2022 Compensation Review cycle resources and merit matrix coming soon.t matrices
Process and Comp Tool Guides will be available for Comp Review beginning November 2022
Employee Resources will be available for Comp Review beginning November 2022
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Quick Tip
Managers take note!
Go to manager resources for the tools you need to make your annual compensation recommendations, and complete the process through Sandia’s CompTool.