Compensation and salary bands
Compensation is the most sensitive HR data in any system. Tribe captures it with strict access controls.
Salary bands
Define your bands once via Tribe → Settings → Salary bands:
- Title — "Senior Engineer"
- Level — "L5"
- Min / Mid / Max — £ range
- Currency
Bands are the framework for individual comp decisions.
Per-employee compensation
On each employee profile:
- Current salary
- Salary band (linked to bands above)
- Effective date — when this salary became active
- Salary history — all previous salaries with dates
- Bonus + commission structure
- Benefits — pension, healthcare, etc.
Access control
Compensation data is admin-only by default. Loosen carefully — most orgs only want owners/HR admins/the specific employee to see their own pay.
You can configure via Settings → Permissions but the hard floor is admin — managers can't see direct reports' salaries by default.
Salary review cycles
Tie compensation reviews to appraisal cycles:
- Set cycle dates
- Managers propose new salary for direct reports
- Calibration session (org-wide)
- Sign-off
- New salaries take effect on the configured date
Tips
- Bands first, salaries second. Without bands you're paying ad-hoc — Sageon makes this visible.
- Audit logging is your friend. Every salary change is logged with timestamp + actor.
- Don't share between Sageon and your payroll system. Sageon is your source of truth; export to payroll via CSV.