Compensation adjustment history

Name: Compensation adjustment history
Creator: TestPattern Community
License: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Detects salary reviews, pay increases and compensation adjustment histories for an identified employee, with current/new salary amounts, percentage increases, classification/step or effective dates.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: the primary phrases also appear in policies, guidance, blank forms and news, so enforce tiers require a populated person field and 85 adds a record-specific populated detail plus independent corroboration. Person values are customer-defined (employee IDs, position numbers), so the field regexes use labelled loose values with a placeholder guard. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy.
Detection quality: Topic false positive
Jurisdictions: global
Regulations: Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth), Fair Work Regulations 2009 (Cth), Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld), Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld), NDB Scheme (Cth), GDPR
Frameworks: ISO 27001, ISO 27701
Data categories: pii, employment
Scope: wide
Risk rating: 8
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:compensation\s+(?:adjustment|history|change)|salary\s+(?:review|adjustment|increase|history|change|progression)|pay\s+(?:increase|rise|adjustment)|remuneration\s+(?:review|adjustment|change)|wage\s+adjustment|increment(?:al)?\s+(?:advancement|progression)|pay\s+point\s+progression)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

approved by, delegate, market, retention, reclassification, superannuation, remuneration committee, budget, higher duties

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Salary review outcome 2026 Employee name: Avery Teston Classification: AO6 step 2 Current salary: $104,219 New salary: $107,867 Effective date: 01/07/2026 Approved by delegate: Director, People and Culture. — 85: Salary review with employee, classification, salaries and effective date
Compensation history Employee: Jordan Staffson Previous base: USD 92,000 Revised base: USD 97,500 Effective from 2025-04-01; retention adjustment signed off by the remuneration committee. — 85: Compensation history with previous/revised base
Pay increase confirmation Employee ID: 4471820 Your increase reflects the market adjustment agreed at your one-on-one. — 75: Pay increase naming an employee ID, no amounts

Should not match

The salary review process runs each July. This policy explains how pay increase decisions are made and approved. — Policy text - must stay below 75
Salary adjustment form Employee name: __________ Current salary: $__________ New salary: $__________ Effective date: ___/___/____ — Blank form - must stay below 75
The Queensland public sector wage adjustment of 4% takes effect in July, the Treasurer said in a media release. — News / media release - must stay below 75
unrelated generic text without domain phrases — No relevant topic phrases present
placeholder value 12345 — Random text should not match topic-specific regex
employee interview — Generic word pair from old broad template should not match

Known false positives

Policies, directives, fact sheets, guidance and training material that name the record type. Mitigation: Enforce tiers require a populated person field; guidance text has labels without values and guidance/training/media-release framing is excluded.
Blank forms, templates and HR system configuration. Mitigation: Blank lines, square- and angle-bracket placeholders, XXX and n/a/tbc values are rejected by the placeholder guard; template/fixture words are excluded.
Aggregate statistics and news reporting. Mitigation: No populated person field, so these stay at 65 discovery.
Records that identify the person only in free text (no field label) fall to 65. Mitigation: Accepted precision trade-off; extend the person-field regex with the customer employee-id format to recover recall.