Grades & bonuses
Turn a percentage into a grade and a bonus.
A KPI result is a percentage, but most companies want a grade— a single letter that says “how did this person do?” The grade scale, demotion rules, and coefficients turn the percentage into a grade and, optionally, a bonus. You configure all of this in the framework builder alongside the tree.
The grade scale
A grade scale is an ordered list of bands, each covering a percentage range and mapped to a label. A typical default looks like this:
| Grade | Range |
|---|---|
| D | 0% – below 50% |
| C | 50% – below 70% |
| B | 70% – below 85% |
| A | 85% – below 100% |
| A+ | 100% – below 120% |
| A++ | 120% and above |
The bands must join up with no gaps and no overlaps; the builder checks this for you. The rule at each boundary is “at least the minimum, but below the maximum” (written as min ≤ score < max). So a score of exactly 85% lands in A, not B. The top band is open-ended.
Demotion rules (why a grade can be lower than expected)
Sometimes a strong overall score should still be capped because one area is unacceptable. Demotion rules do this — for example:
- “If discipline is below 50%, force the grade to D.”
- “If quality is below 60%, drop the grade by one band.”
Demotion rules only ever lowera grade, never raise it. If several rules apply, the harshest outcome wins. When a rule fires, the app shows why — for example “Demoted A → B: Quality 55% below 60%” — so the grade is never a mystery.
Coefficients and bonuses
Each grade band can carry a coefficient — a multiplier used to calculate a bonus. A band can also include a small step that adjusts the coefficient smoothly across the band, so a person near the top of a band earns slightly more than one near the bottom.
If a person has a bonus target set for the cycle, their bonus amount is simply:
bonus amount = bonus target × coefficient
The bonus is frozen at the moment results are calculated, so later edits to the framework or scale never rewrite a past payout.
Who can see bonuses
Bonus targets and amounts are confidential, like salaries: only administrators can set or see them, and managers see a person’s KPI %, grade and coefficient but not the amount. Members see their own bonus only if an administrator turns that on in Settings.