Pay Categories are used to classify the nature of a pay and may be used to set up typical tax processing for different types of pays.
Any taxation information completed for a Pay Category will override the taxation indicators on the employee’s pay rule form (IPRLU/IPRLC).
PAY CATEGORY TYPES#
- Reversal
- Sample Categories: Reversal
- Used to process Reversal Pays.
- Not a ‘Regular’ Pay.
- Must be for a pay period that is closed and disbursed.
- Must be entered under the actual period the pay being reversed was originally paid in.
- Selected pay amounts from the period are completely reversed.
- No calculations are performed.
- Original check number is reversed.
- All government calculated amounts are reversed.
- Benefits and Attendance calculations are not reversed and must be adjusted manually.
- You may need manual adjustments for time banks if Reversals are for several pay periods prior to the current period.
- Adjustment
- Sample Categories: YTD Adjustment
- Used for Adjustment Pays which allows the monthly, quarterly, fiscal or year-to-date of a prior period to be updated or adjusted.
- Not a ‘Regular’ Pay.
- No calculations are performed unless the pay point type of’94 - Adjustment’ is indicated in the Pay Point form.
- No pay stub is issued.
- Regular
- Sample Categories: Regular Pay, Termination Pay, Overtime Pay
- ‘Regular’ pays with common deductions.
- Can be for a current or past pay period.
- Personality performs calculations.
- Government calculations are done.
- Pay stub is issued.
- Net Pay = Gross – Deductions
- Only one ‘Regular’ pay may be calculated per pay period.
- For a pay period, a Regular pay category should be paid first, before all other pay categories so that normal exemptions are taken for this Regular pay.
- Future
- Sample Categories: Future Pay, Future Vacation
- Used to process Future Pays
- ‘Regular’ pays with common deductions.
- MUST be for a future pay period.
- Personality performs calculations.
- Government calculations are done.
- Pay stub is issued.
- Net Pay = Gross – Deductions.
- No other regular pay may be processed for this period.
- Advance
- Sample Categories: Travel Advance, Advance Leave
- MUST be for a future pay period.
- Arrears transactions will automatically be created by system for the advance amount.
- Arrears transactions will be collected from the regular pay that the advance applies to.
- Pay stub is issued.
- Bonus
- Sample Categories:Commission, Severance
- Not a ‘Regular’ pay
- MUST be for a pay period that already has a ‘Regular Pay’ calculated and closed (this is for taxation purposes).
- Personality does calculations.
- Government calculations are done.
- Pay stub is issued.
- Net Pay = Gross – Deductions.
- Retro
- Sample Categories: Retroactive Pay
- Used to process Retroactive Pays
- Not a ‘Regular’ Pay
- MUST be for a past pay period
- May be created through the Retro Pay function or manually added
- Personality does calculations
- Government calculations are done
- Pay stub is issued
- Net Pay = Gross – Deductions
