Understanding Segmentation Setup

Segmentation refers to the process of calculating all or a subset of elements in a process list in separate slices or segments. You can segment components of pay based on events such as changes in compensation or employee status during a pay period. For example, if an individual changes jobs during a pay period and your organization separates earnings by job, you can set up the system to trigger segmentation of earning results on the payslip when there's a change to the job change action/reason field in PeopleSoft HR.

This topic discusses:

• Types of segmentation.

• Relationship of period, segment, and slice dates.

• Basic rules of element resolution.

• Effective-dated element definitions.

• Rules for slicing accumulators and accumulator members.

• Rules for parent and child element resolutions.

• Segmentation and payee overrides.

• Proration and segmentation.

• Retroactive processing and segmentation.

• Positive input with segmentation.

• Segmentation system elements.