Pay Rate Defaulting without Positions

You can set up employee pay rates in several different places within the Payroll application. If you do not enter a pay rate when you add a time record, the application uses a specific path to look for the pay rate:

• The pay rate on the Pay tab of the Employee (HR11.1) is the final default.

• The Alternate Rates button on HR11.1 can also be used to override the employee pay rate for specific pay codes, job codes, or combinations therein.

The following flowchart shows how the default pay rate is used on the time record if you do not use the Personnel Administration application or if you select Ignore Positions or Primary Positions in the Pay Rate field on Position Rules (PA06.1).

When you create a time record, you can type a value in the Rate field or you can let a rate default.

Pay codes are defined on Pay Codes (PR20.4). Key Pay Rate Defaulting Fields

Alternate rates are defined with the Alternate Rate subform of HR11.1. Key Pay Rate Defaulting Fields

For a rate of pay to default from a pending action, the time record must correspond to the effective date of the pending action.

When you set up a company, you can determine whether or not the application logs field changes to a history file by setting the appropriate parameters on Data Item Attributes (HR10). For a rate to default from the history file, you must log field changes and the date of the time record must match the date of the history file record.

If the pay rate is determined by the Employee Position/Job Record, the pay rate, annual hours, and FTE will be used to calculate the wage.

Payroll calculates gross pay when you add a time record to the application.