Merit notifications are being provided via Workday for the 2025 fiscal year to all Ohio State employees who receive a merit base pay increase and/or merit lump-sum amount.
Your merit notification will specify if you are receiving a base pay increase, a lump sum increase or both. If you are not receiving a merit increase this year, you will not receive a notification. Colleges and units may also provide a separate letter to employees to address other kinds of pay adjustments.
The specific steps to access your notification will depend on your organization and employee type.
For tenure, clinical/teaching/practice and research track faculty or regular non-bargaining unit staff in academic and business units:
An announcement about merit will appear on the Workday home page when you log in starting August 2, 2024. The link in the announcement will take you directly to your merit notification. The above faculty and regular staff can navigate to their merit notification instead of the above shortcut with these steps:
- Under your profile icon, click View profile.
- Under your name, click Actions and select Compensation.
- Select View Compensation Review Statement History.
- Click on the letter PDF to open and view it.
For employees in academic and business units who are in a term, temporary, intermittent or seasonal status and are receiving merit (base pay or lump-sum):
A merit letter will be in your Workday inbox. Click on the inbox to open your letter. You will need to mark a checkbox to indicate receipt of the letter. The merit letter will be available to you immediately after the compensation request process is complete. After clicking “I accept,” you can go back to your merit notification by navigating to Personal on the left-hand menu and then selecting Documents.
For non-bargaining unit employees in the Wexner Medical Center:
Your merit letter will be in your Workday inbox. Click on the inbox to open your letter. You will need to mark a checkbox to indicate receipt of the letter. Due to P3 processing times, the merit letter will be available to you within 24 hours after your performance review is finalized in the P3 performance tool. The P3 performance tool opened on July 22. After clicking “I accept,” you can go back to your merit notification by navigating to Personal on the left-hand menu and then selecting Documents.
If you have questions about merit, contact your manager or your HR partner.