PayAnalytics - March 2026 feature release notes

This article lists the updates made available to users in the PayAnalytics application in March 2026.

Category of worker - Automatic prepopulation across analyses & reports

EU Pay Transparency Directive (EUPTD) reporting requires pay gap analysis (article 9) and employee right to information reporting (article 7) to be segmented by worker category. Until now, users had to manually re-select the category field in every feature, increasing the risk of inconsistent or missed segmentation.

This month, we introduced in PayAnalytics a new capability that take this manual task off the hands of global/Local Rewards users configuring datasets and running analyses and Data admins setting up the dataset configuration (if not the Rewards teams themselves).

When a 'Category of Worker' field is set in the dataset configuration, it now automatically prepopulates as the default selection in three places:

• The Close Pay Gaps by Groups feature

• The EU Pay Gap Report wizard

• The Pay Transparency Reports (including Employee Pay Transparency Report and the Pay Explainability reports).

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It is still possible to override the prepopulated value in any individual feature, and changing the Category of Worker field after an analysis has run only affects future report generation, not historical results.

Worker category interface

To use the feature, proceed as follows:

1. Open Dataset Configuration and go to the ID and Group section.

2. Check the Use worker category box and select the field that represents the worker category (e.g. job grade or job family).

3. Save the dataset configuration.

When running Close Pay Gaps by Groups, configuring an EU Pay Gap Report, or generating a Pay Transparency Report, the Category of Worker field will already be selected by default — override it if needed.

If the Category of Worker field is cleared from the dataset configuration, all three features revert to using the main employee characterization field as the default.

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For more information, refer to the following articles:

• Uploading your data

• Preparing your data for the EUPTD

Automatic data retention cleanup for uploaded datasets

Many organizations are subject to data retention policies that limit how long personal compensation data can be stored. Manual cleanup is error-prone and easy to overlook.

A new feature, targeted at admins responsible for data governance and compliance, will facilitate and streamline this work.

Organizations with a data retention policy enabled will now have uploaded datasets automatically removed once they exceed the configured retention period (minimum 365 days).

When a data retention policy is enabled for your organization, no action is required from end users, cleanup runs automatically on a daily basis once enabled.

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If a retention policy is not yet configured and is required for your organization, raise a support ticket through our Help Center to enable it. Specify whether the data retention policy only applies to your employee data or also to your audit log. Include the number of days to retain each.

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The retention period is calculated from the date the dataset was uploaded, not the effective date of the pay data itself. Organizations that do not have a retention policy enabled are not affected.

Retention actions in the employee datasets