SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION PLANNING

1 . A configurable system for generating a compensation plan for an enterprise, the system comprising:

an invariant core including a core business logic and presentation module, a core database module, and a computation engine module;

a plurality of dynamic modules including at least one of a data dictionary module, a computation rule module, an extensible database schema module, and a view template module, the dynamic modules accessible to modules comprising the invariant core; and

a database including data specific to the enterprise readable by at least one of the modules comprising the invariant core and one or more of the dynamic modules.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the core business logic and presentation module is configured to manipulate data received from the database according to a rule set defining the compensation plan for the enterprise.

3 . The system of claim 2 , wherein the rule set includes rules specific to at least one of a government, a nation, a region, a locality, a custom, and the enterprise.

4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the core business logic and presentation module includes presentation rules which define one or more view templates.

5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the computation engine module is configured to compute variables within a compensation plan according to editable compensation rules defined through mathematical expressions stored in the data dictionary module.

6 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the core database schema module includes rules defining a format for data used by the system.

7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the extensible database schema module defines enterprise-specific rules defining a format for data used by the system.

8 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the data dictionary uses schemas stored in the core database schema to define a variable to be included in a compensation plan.

9 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the data dictionary is a memory resident module.

10 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the view template module is configured to process at least one view template to facilitate formatting and display of data defined by the data dictionary module.

11 . The system of claim 10 , wherein the view template module reads the at least one view template, retrieves associated data described by the data dictionary module and produces display objects for a presentation module configured to present planning pages for the compensation plan.

12 . A method for generating a compensation plan for an enterprise, the method comprising:

receiving enterprise-specific data from a database;

modifying the enterprise-specific data according to a schema to produce modified data compatible with other data in the compensation plan;

listing the modified data and information about the enterprise-specific data in a data dictionary;

manipulating the modified data according to a rule set for compensation planning to produce manipulated data;

calculating elements of the compensation plan, using the manipulated data, according to one or more computation rules described in the data dictionary;

generating variables within the compensation plan for the enterprise based on the calculated elements; and

presenting for user viewing the generated variables of the compensation plan.

13 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the variables within the compensation plan are generated at a server.

14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the variables within the compensation plan are presented via a view template displayed by a web browser.

15 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the view template defines a planning page which displays a portion the compensation plan.

16 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising receiving via the planning page modifications to the compensation plan and regenerating the variables within the compensation plan based on the modifications.

17 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the rule set includes both enterprise-specific rules and enterprise-agnostic rules.

18 . The method of claim 17 , wherein the enterprise-agnostic rules include one or more rules defined by one or more of a government or geographic customary practices.

19 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the rule set is editable and defines the compensation plan through mathematical expressions.

20 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the rule set is includes a description of an order in which calculations must be performed.