Modifying Delivered Earnings

PeopleSoft Global Payroll for United States delivers earnings elements based on practices that are common to many businesses in the U.S. Although most of the delivered earnings are created according to common industry standards or based on statutory requirements, a company's specific business practices may require modifications to the delivered elements. This topic provides examples of common earnings rules modifications.

Modifying SALARY

If you create new absence-related earnings and want the new earning to reduce the SALARY earning, you must add the automatically generated units accumulator from the new earning to the REDUCE SAL H accumulator. You can add the units accumulator for the new absence-related earnings to the REDUCE SAL H accumulator on the Accumulators - Members page.

See PeopleSoft Global Payroll: Understanding Accumulators.

Modifying BONUS

The delivered BONUS earning is designed to be taxed by means of the supplemental tax method, and is multiplied by the state supplemental rate. Business practices may require that you calculate bonuses as separate payments or process them with regular wages. If you want to use a different supplemental rate for the BONUS earning, you must enter this change on the State Tax Rates USA page.

See Understanding Taxes.

Modifying Shift SHIFT - R and SHIFT PCT

When modifying the delivered shift differential rules, note that:

  • The Unit component in the calculation rule of the shift differential earnings SHIFT - R and SHIFT PCT is defined as the accumulator SHIFT DIFF UNIT. As delivered, the members of this accumulator are the units calculated for the earnings WAGES and REGULAR. If you want to include units (hours) from other earnings in the calculation of differential pay, you must add the units from these earnings to SHIFT DIFF UNIT using the accumulator definition component.

  • Any additional earnings whose units you add to the accumulator SHIFT DIFF UNIT should be defined with ERN VR SHIFT GRP (shift group) and ERN VR SHIFT ID (shift ID) as user fields. Use the delivered earnings WAGES and REGULAR as models.

  • The shift differential earnings use the bracket ERN BR SHIFT DIFF to return the correct differential and percentage. The differential and percentage values in the bracket are defined as sample data; you must modify this data to conform to the rules that apply within your organization. In addition, you may want to add additional search keys to the bracket (the delivered bracket uses shift group and shift ID as search keys).