Payroll for North America Overview

Payroll for North America provides the tools to calculate earnings, taxes, and deductions efficiently; maintain balances; and report payroll data while minimizing the burden on IT managers and payroll staff.

With Payroll for North America, you can design the payroll system to meet your organization's specific requirements. Provide the system with some basic information about the types of balances that you want to maintain, how you want to group the workforce, and when you want to pay them. You can define and establish earnings, deductions, taxes, and processes that fit your unique business needs. The payroll system enables you to calculate gross-to-net or net-to-gross pay, leave accruals, and retroactive pay. You can automatically calculate imputed income for group-term life insurance and process unlimited direct deposits.

With this application you can:

• Define various earnings types including regular earnings and additional pays.

• Process compensation with multiple compensation rates.

• Designate shift schedules and shift premium calculation rules.

• Define deduction types for benefit premiums, tax withholdings, garnishments, and other deductions.

• Determine the types of payroll accumulator balances that you want to maintain and use.

• Define employee pay groups, which are groups of employees that share common payroll characteristics, such as working for the same organization or sharing the same pay frequency or pay date.

• Establish pay calendars that reflect the various payroll periods, pay dates, and Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) periods throughout the year.

• Designate employee holidays for payroll processing.

• Create pay run IDs to process payrolls more efficiently.

• Establish general rules for processing and paying garnishments.

• Set up direct deposits for the workforce.

• Set up Canada Payroll Savings (CPS) program information.

• Support contract pay for employees in education-related organizations, such as faculty employees who work a nine-month contract that is paid over 12 months.

• Define control data for creating paysheets and running other batch processes.

• Specify the various companies within your organization and maintain separate payroll data for each—everything from general ledger accounts, to tax information, and unique payroll processing and payment rules.