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title: Base Comp Changes
slug: base-comp-changes
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createdAt: 2022-09-09T16:51:30.000Z
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### Description

Returns a list of the changes to the person's base compensation over time, in chronological order. This is intended to give you access to the person's base compensation history.

- **Code name**: `baseCompChanges`
- **Sensitivity**: Org Public
- **Data type**: Object
- **Data category**: Changes
- **Entity type**: None
- **Read only:** Yes

### Fields

`baseCompChanges` returns a list of *CompChange* objects, each of which has the following fields:

- **date** (Date) – the date the compensation change took effect.
- **baseComp** (PayInterval) – the new base compensation that took effect on the specified date, returned as a PayInterval.

### Usage Examples

| **Code**                                                                                                           | **Description**                                                          |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `baseCompChanges.first.baseComp`                                                                                   | Return the job’s original (first ever) base compensation amount.         |
| `baseCompChanges.last.date`                                                                                        | Return the date of the job’s last base comp adjustment.                  |
| `baseCompChanges == []`                                                                                            | Jan. 1 - new open job is created.                                        |
| `baseCompChanges == [ CompChange{ date: Jan 2, baseCompcomp{…}} ]`                                                 | Jan 2 - Sally fills the job and her baseComp.yearly is set to $100,000   |
| `baseCompChanges == []`                                                                                            | Feb 1 - Sally departs                                                    |
| `baseCompChanges == [ CompChange{ date: March 1, baseCompcomp{…}} ]`                                               | March 1 - Sam fills the job and his baseComp.yearly is set to $100,000   |
| `baseCompChanges == [ CompChange{ date: March 1, baseCompcomp{…}} , CompChange{ date: April 1, baseCompcomp{…}} ]` | April 1 - Sam gets a pay adjustment. His new baseComp.yearly is $110,000 |

### Additional Notes

- `baseCompChanges` for open jobs returns an empty list \[].
- `baseCompChanges` for jobs that were backfills but are now filled by a new person will *only* return the base comp changes for .