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Workday Advanced Compensation Compensation Grades API

Manage compensation grade profiles and pay ranges

Workday Advanced Compensation Compensation Grades API is one of 8 APIs that Workday Advanced Compensation publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 18 JSON Schema definitions.

Tagged areas include Compensation Grades. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, a JSON-LD context, and 18 JSON Schemas.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version v41.1.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{tenant}.workday.com/api/compensation/v1.

2 operations 2 paths 3 schemas 2 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
v41.1
Server
https://{tenant}.workday.com/api/compensation/v1
Authentication
OAuth 2.0
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Workday Advanced Compensation Compensation Grades API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It supports OAuth 2.0 (oauth2) using the clientCredentials flow, exposing 2 scopes. By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • oauth2 — Workday OAuth 2.0 authentication

Paths & Operations 2

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Compensation Grades 2

Manage compensation grade profiles and pay ranges

GET
/compensationGrades
Workday List Compensation Grades
listCompensationGrades 2 params → 200401
GET
/compensationGrades/{gradeId}
Workday Get Compensation Grade
getCompensationGrade 1 param → 200404

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are CompensationGrade (8 properties), ErrorResponse (3 properties), CompensationGradesResponse (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

CompensationGradesResponse
object
Paginated response containing compensation grades
2 properties
CompensationGrade
object
A compensation grade profile with pay range information
8 properties
ErrorResponse
object
Workday API error response
3 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

workday-advanced-compensation-compensation-grades-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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