Updating pay rates for multiple employees

You can increase or decrease the pay of more than one employee at the same time, if the change is the same for all the employees you update. Use this procedure to update pay rates for multiple employees.

Access Mass Pay Update (PR120).

Note: Mass Pay Update (PR120) is used only by clients that do not use the Personnel Administration application. If you use the Personnel Administration application, then you can use Mass Pay Action (PA52.2) to update pay rates for multiple employees.
Select the criteria of the employees whose pay rates you want to update. Consider this field:

Include or Exclude, Status

Use this field with the Status field to determine which employees are affected.

Select whether employees with the selected status codes are included in or excluded from the pay change. You can select up to eight status codes to include or exclude.
Select how you want to change the pay rates for employees. Use these guidelines to specify the field values:

Percent Increase

A percent increase that you want to apply to the employees. If you specify a value in the Percent Increase field, then leave the Percent Decrease, Amount Increase, Amount Decrease, and New Rate of Pay fields blank.

Percent Decrease

A percent decrease that you want to apply to the employees. If you specify a value in the Percent Decrease field, then leave the Percent Increase, Amount Increase, Amount Decrease, and New Rate of Pay fields blank.

Round to

If you specify a value in the Percent Increase or Percent Decrease field, this field indicates the number of decimal places that you want the calculated rate to extend.

Rounding Option

If you specify a value in the Percent Increase or Percent Decrease field, select the rounding method that you want to use in the calculation.

Amount Increase

If the mass pay change is a flat amount pay increase, then specify the appropriate amount. If you specify a value in the Amount Increase field, then leave the Percent Increase, Percent Decrease, Amount Decrease, and New Rate of Pay fields blank.

Amount Decrease

If the mass pay change is a flat amount pay decrease, then specify the appropriate amount.

New Rate of Pay

If the mass pay change is a new rate of pay, then specify the appropriate rate of pay.
Select to update the system with the pay rate changes in the Update field.

Alternatively, select only to create a report that you can use to audit proposed changes in the Update field.

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To	Use
List employee details, including employee pay rates	Employee Listing (HR211)