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The salary package keeps a candidate’s pay on the record as separate figures: current fixum, bonus, deferred pay, expected fixum and expected total cash. Each amount has its own currency.

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A day with the salary package

Laura is an executive search consultant in Munich. She works a Head of Finance mandate for a client in Zurich. This morning she finished a call with Anna Beispiel, a finance director at Muster Personal GmbH. Anna told her three things. She earns 150,000 CHF fixed and a 30,000 CHF bonus. She would move for 200,000 CHF in total. Her notice is three months to the end of a quarter. Before, Laura would have typed this into a note. A week later nobody could filter for it, and she would have to remember which candidates wanted what. Now she writes it on the record.
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Laura opens Anna's record and clicks the pencil in Record details

The pay rows sit under Additional details. Each is a normal row, edited the way every other detail is edited.
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She types the amounts, each with its currency

Current fixum: 150000 CHF. Bonus: 30000 CHF. Expected total cash: 200000 CHF. Bonus info: “Paid in March”. Notice terms: “3 months to quarter end”. Pay as of: 2026. She saves.
Record details with Current fixum, Bonus, Expected fixum, Expected total cash, Bonus info, Notice terms and Pay as of filled in

The pay rows in Record details, filled in for a fictional candidate

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The pay line appears under Anna's name at once

No reload. Under the name, one line now reads the main figures, so Laura sees Anna’s expectations the moment she opens the record, before a client call.
Pay line under the name: Fixum CHF 150,000, Bonus CHF 30,000, Expected CHF 200,000, as of 2026

The pay line under the candidate's name

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Weeks later she searches her own database by pay

A second client asks for a finance lead who expects less than 220,000. Laura opens the filters and asks for it. See Filter Candidates with the AI filter. Anna is in the result, because the filter reads the same package.
What Laura gets: the figures live on the record, with their currency and the year they were true. Nothing depends on a note she wrote and forgot, and the database can answer a pay question.

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The pay rows

In the read-only view of Record details, rows with no value are not shown. Click the pencil to see and fill all of them.

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How to enter an amount

Type the number, a space and the three-letter currency code: 85000 CHF. A lowercase code is fine, Yena upper-cases it.
  • No currency typed: the amount is saved without one and shows as “85,000 · currency?”. Yena never assumes a currency for you.
  • Letters that are not a currency code (for example “EURO”) are refused with a reason, and Save stays blocked until you fix them.
  • Shorthand like 85k is not accepted. Write the full number.
  • Clear a row by emptying it and saving.

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Import and CVs

  • CSV import: the wizard can map columns to the package rows. A row’s Salary Currency applies to every amount next to it. The number formats “85,000” and “85.000,50” are both read correctly. A new person gets the package from the file. For someone already in your database, only package fields that are still empty are filled.
  • CVs and notes: when Yena reads pay figures from a CV or notes, it fills the package only if the person has none yet. It never overwrites what you typed.

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Filter by pay

The Current salary and Salary expectation filters read the package first:
  • Current salary reads Current fixum, and falls back to the older Current salary value.
  • Salary expectation reads Expected total cash, then Expected fixum, then the older Salary expectation value.
Amounts are compared as plain numbers. Yena does not convert currencies, so a filter above 200,000 treats CHF and EUR figures alike. Check the currency on the record when it matters.

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Good to know

  • Older records keep their old fields. Candidates with a Current salary or Salary expectation from earlier keep them. As soon as a package has an amount, the pay line and the filters use the package.
  • Everyone who can open the candidate can see the pay. There is no separate permission for it yet.

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FAQ

It was saved without a currency. Edit the row and add the code, for example 85000 CHF.
No. Amounts are stored and filtered as typed. Add the currency so you can tell them apart.
It falls back to the older Current salary and Salary expectation values, where the record has them.