Currently when updating or loading new compensation against an employee when a soft tolerance is set, the system will look at the previous cumulative pay rate to determine whether the new amount is out of tolerance range, subsequently producing a warning indicating the entered amount is 'out of range' when it isn't.

It would make more sense for the system to determine whether the amount entered is within range based on the actual amount being entered via the new compensation action rather than what the old rate is set too. When updating employee compensation the new rate should be measured against the compensation structure associated to the action, not the old cumulative pay rate. Employee's frequently move into new compensations plans with different banding from the previous and isn't practical to take old plans nor rates into consideration when determining the correct range for a new rate.