How to prevent 0.00 parent row value in workforce compensation worksheet?

Summary:

My customer has a Formal Bonus Workforce Compensation Plan that includes parent rows and assignment segment (child) rows. We enabled the "include 0 value in allocation totals" in the plan configuration per a new requirement, but now the counter is counting the default zero parent row (personal objective payout) when the child row is null. I'm not entirely sure if I should be investigating the Payout $ column since there is a calculation on the backend or if I could be investigating the Personal Objective Payout column. Does anyone have any advice or guidance on how I can get the