Workday Advanced Compensation
Workday Advanced Compensation is the Workday HCM module for total-rewards administration — compensation plans and grades, merit and bonus cycles, stock and equity awards, compensation scorecards, budget pools and compensation review processes. Workday exposes it through three first-party machine-readable contracts published anonymously on its own hosts: a REST service (compensation v1-v3, OpenAPI 3.0.1) whose operation descriptions name the Advanced Compensation scope directly, the Compensation and Compensation_Review Workday Web Services SOAP contracts (89 operations across two WSDLs, v47.0), and a Compensation namespace inside Workday's published GraphQL schema. The capability surface is overwhelmingly SOAP: 89 SOAP operations against 14 REST operations. Every surface runs against a customer's own Workday tenant under OAuth 2.0 with Workday security domains; there is no public sandbox, no published pricing and no idempotency contract on any compensation write.
Workday Advanced Compensation publishes 13 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Bonus Plans API, Budgets API, Grades API, and 10 more. Tagged areas include Compensation, Human Resources, Payroll, HCM, and Enterprise Software.
The Workday Advanced Compensation catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
Workday Advanced Compensation’s developer surface includes authentication, sandbox, changelog, documentation, API reference, engineering blog, support, and 37 more developer resources.
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Standards implemented 1
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 13
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Workday Compensation SOAP Web Services (WWS v47.0)
Workday Web Services for compensation, published as WSDL 1.1 on community.workday.com under the urn:com.workday/bsvc/Compensation namespace. The Compensation service carries 68 ...
Workday Advanced Compensation Bonus Plans API
Manage bonus and incentive plans
Workday Advanced Compensation Budgets API
Manage compensation budgets and allocations
Workday Advanced Compensation Grades API
Manage compensation grade profiles and pay ranges
Workday Advanced Compensation Plans API
Manage compensation plans and eligibility rules
Workday Advanced Compensation Reviews API
Manage compensation review processes and cycles
Workday Advanced Compensation Employee Compensation API
Manage individual employee compensation packages
Workday Advanced Compensation Merit Plans API
Manage merit increase plans and cycles
Workday Advanced Compensation Stock Plans API
Manage equity and stock compensation plans
Workday Advanced Compensation Prompt Values API
Retrieves instances that can be used as values for other endpoint parameters in this service.
Workday Advanced Compensation Scorecard Results API
Provides the ability to set up and retrieve Scores on Scorecard Results.
Workday Advanced Compensation Scorecards API
Provides the ability to set up and retrieve Scores on Scorecard Results.
Workday Advanced Compensation Workers API
The workers API from Workday Advanced Compensation — 3 operation(s) for workers.
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Open Collections 9
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONWorkday Advanced Compensation Bonus Plans API
OPEN COLLECTIONWorkday Advanced Compensation Bonus Plans Merit Plans API
OPEN COLLECTIONWorkday Advanced Compensation Bonus Plans Stock Plans API
OPEN COLLECTIONWorkday Advanced Compensation API
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Workday Advanced Compensation MCP Server
MCP server; 14 tools listed. A candidate, not confirmed as published by the provider.
MCP SERVERPricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Workday Advanced Compensation Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Spectral Rules 2
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
OpenAPI Overlays 1
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
JSON Schema 9
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Bonus Plan
JSON SCHEMACompensation Budget
JSON SCHEMACompensation Change Request
JSON SCHEMACompensation Grade
JSON SCHEMACompensation Plan
JSON SCHEMACompensation Review
JSON SCHEMAEmployee Compensation
JSON SCHEMAMerit Plan
JSON SCHEMAStock Plan
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JSON Structure 9
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Workday Advanced Compensation Bonus Plan Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWorkday Advanced Compensation Merit Plan Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWorkday Advanced Compensation Stock Plan Structure
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Examples 9
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 9
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 7
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Operate 6
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
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