When a planned salary appears against an employee record, this isn't a true salary that applies to them.
On creating a post, HR can enter an indicative salary that should apply to the post, this is the planned salary. When you appoint a new starter to a post, you'll still need to enter a salary for the employee. If that's not done, the system will show any planned salary that's been entered in its place.
📌Note: Valid statuses for a true salary line against an employee are as follows.
Pending – The salary hasn't been approved at any level.
In Approval – The salary's been partially approved but not by all approvers.
Approved – The salary's fully approved by all approvers.
Future – As approved, but the effective date's greater than today.
Rejected – The salary's been rejected and won't be paid.