PDBA Effective Dates

Many organizations need the flexibility to make salary adjustments or DBA rate changes effective during the middle of a pay cycle rather than waiting until the beginning of a new pay period to apply the adjusted rate. Effective-dated PDBA rate changes provide organizations with the flexibility to make PDBA rate changes during the pay period. Pay rates are always date effective. The effective date controls rate changes for DBAs, that the system recognizes and applies during payroll processing. Users will have the ability to instruct the system to prorate DBAs with the following choices:

• Apply the rate or rule in effect at the beginning of the pay period.

• Apply the rate or rule in effect at the end of the pay period.

• Prorate the DBA to reflect the new rate as of the effective date.

  The system executes rate changes during the pay cycle in accordance with the actual effective date.

PDBA proration rules can be defined at the following levels:

• DBA Setup.

• Employee DBA Instruction.

• Group Plan DBA Setup.

You should consider PDBA effective dating from two perspectives:

• For DBA calculations.

• For pay types in time entry.