Merit Distributor

An attempt to programmatically distribute wage pools to a set of employees.

Setup and Running

Define each employees in the employees.yml file and set appropriate options in the distributor_options.yml file; both should be in the root directory of the project.

The following fields, in employees.yml are required for each Employee in the following format:

- name: <Name> # Employee's name as a string
  cur_salary: <Salary> # The current salary as a float
  mrp: <MRP> # The MRP* for the employee's pay band as a float
  rating: <Rating> # The employee's performance rating as an int

Additional options are detailed in the _employee_from_dictionary in libmerit.py.

* If your company does not use MRP, define the following attributes for each employee as follows:

• mrp: set to the middle (top+bottom/2) of the pay band
• mrp_top_range: Set to the top/middle of the pay band
• mrp_bottom_range: Set to the bottom/middle of the pay band

Options, found in distributor_options.yml, are as follows:

pool: <Pool> # Pool of raise money as a float
divisions: 100 # The size of each division of the Knapsack as an int
perf_translate: # Weights for each performance level as a dict
  <Rating>: <Weight> # Translation of one or more ratings to weights
  <Rating>: <Weight> # each defined as int: float
  ...                # Set weights to `1` for each rating to disable
  <Rating>: <Weight> # weighting
min_salary_increase: 0.015 # Optional minimum increase as a float
bad_performer_gets_min: False # Set to True if bad performers (weight `0`)
                              # still get the minimum salary increase

Once all options are set and employees are set, run: > python3 merit_distributor.py