Best Practice - Do Not Provide Salaries Unless Needed

Best Practice - Do Not Provide Salaries Unless Needed


You could provide each user's salary.

However, there are many situations where this is not needed. And remember, all full admins can view salary data. So even though your data is protected, there is still some level of risk associated with sharing salary data.

Also, access to calculation results may cause information leakage if participants know they were based on salaries and have sufficient access to data to make some deductions. For example, if I know that my commission is $1000, that it was calculated based on salary-weighted assignment for my team, and that the total assigned for the team was $3000, I can deduce that my team mate's salaries represent 2 times mine (in total).

Please review this KB article to determine whether you should enter salary information. And please remember that we will generate system alerts to ask you to provide salary information if needed.

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