What Happens When I Override Salary?

You may have special situations you need to override an employee's salary for benefit purposes. For example, your life insurance policy has coverage based on employee salary. You have a newly-hired, commissioned employee, and you want to base the insurance benefit on a higher salary than what the plan will use to calculate coverage. When you enroll this employee, you can override their salary by entering a specific salary amount.

When you override an employee's salary there are consequences that affect future benefit updates. The salary amount is stored as an overridden value, and the benefit update programs will not recalculate coverage for any future salary changes unless the override is removed. If you find you are overriding salary for a large number of employees, you may want to reconsider the set up of your benefit plan to determine if there is a more efficient way for the application to determine covered salary.