Default Pay Group for the Company

When you first add a pay group, you're prompted for a company ID and pay group ID. The company ID is a key field on the pay group table, implying that all employees in a pay group are also in the same company. For the pay group ID, use any three-character alphanumeric ID that conforms to your payroll standards.

There is no limit to the number of pay groups that you can define for a company. You might need only one, or more likely, several pay groups to accommodate the different payroll schedules that you have.

After you define all the valid pay groups for a company, you must return to the Company Table - Default Settings page, to assign a pay group default. Typically, that default should be the most common pay group for the company. Employees assigned to that company in their Job data are set by default to the pay group established for that company and the employee type established for that pay group.