Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for optimizing compensation allocations, and in particular, spiff allocations. With a limited budget, embodiments calculate optimized allocations or distributions of the budget to maximize employee productivity by analyzing input parameters associated with a productivity period, creating performance models for each employee or group of employees based on the analysis, and generating a budget allocation model so as to increase the sum output of the employee productivity. Approaches are data driven and modifiable to account for new data.