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Employee Compensation and Benefits Statement

presented byBrad Smith

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General Announcements• Please turn off all cell phones/pagers• If you must leave the session early, please do so

as discreetly as possible• Please avoid side conversations during the

session.• Please feel free to ask questions at any time

during the session.

Thank you for your cooperation!

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When Your Retirement Plans don’t fit into your Child’s Future

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Benefits….

Sweet Benefits…..

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Timing

is

Everything!

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Background

• Went Live with Banner HR January 1, 2006.

• No prior consolidated Compensation and Benefit Statement.

• No easy way for employees to see the ‘true’ value of their employment benefits. (Not happy with Banner Delivered options.)

• HR Committee formed at the behest of VP of HR to discuss the creation of a ‘Comprehensive’ Benefits Statement. (June 2007)– Content– Format– Presentation Options– Security

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Concerns and Issues Data Security was the Number 1 Issue.

Decided against on-line access for the first cut.

USPS Chosen for initial delivery.

Bypass Staff Associates, Assistants, and Office Mail.

Ease of Use for HR Staff and Distribution.

Flexibility in Statement Production (Individually or in a Group)

Simple, one-page (double-sided), glossy document.

Graphs

Tables

Easy to Understand and Pleasing to the Eye.

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Functionally speaking…

•Salary Valuation

•Retirement Contributions

•Health and Wellness Contributions

•Education Benefits

•Leave Time Valuation

•Paid Holidays, Closings, and Other Time Off

•Other Benefits (Monetary and Non-Monetary)

•Other Campus Services

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Technically speaking…• In house development (by Application Support

Analyst)

• Rollout January 2008

• Data extracted from PROD instance of INB

• Real time results. (to prepare for eventual on-line access)

• Access controlled by Human Resource Services.

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Data SourcesSPRIDEN

SPRADDR

FTVORGN

PEBEMPL

PDRDEDN

PTRBDPL

PTRBDCA

PERLEAV

NBRJOBS

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SQL Basics

1. Simplified Structure

2. Sub-Queries

3. Linked by PIDM

4. Analytical Functions

5. Dickinson ‘Rules’ Built-in where Possible

Age-banded Life Insurance

Leave Time for Administrators

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Putting the Pieces Together1. Decided to use COGNOS to Format the Statement

Presentation.

2. Conditional Variables to format Table Rows

3. Master-Detail Relationship for Graphs

4. Flexible Parameters

5. Many calculations built into COGNOS rather than SQL

6. Raw data extracted in SQL, manipulation done in COGNOS

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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Your Total Com pensation

$42,900.00

$8,590.00

$7,200.00

$2,895.00

SalaryRetirementEducationHealth and Wellness

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Dynamic Boxes. (Grow or Shrink depending on the content)

Administrator Leave Time in Days rather than Hours.

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And now…..

Here’s Katie!