A New Hire Action with Simple Components

Here's an example of what happens in the salary section of a New Hire action when the selected salary basis type is simple components.

  1. You select the Simple Components Salary Basis (all required) salary basis and the required components appear in the table.
  2. The Basic salary component lets you enter an amount, such as 40,000.
  3. The Housing allowance component lets you enter a percentage, such as 60%. Then it applies the percentage to the Basic salary component amount to calculate the allowance amount, such as 24,000.
  4. The Transport allowance component is a fixed amount, such as 1,800, that you can't remove or change.
  5. The Special allowance component is a fixed percentage, such as 40% that you can’t remove or change. The component applies the percentage to the Basic salary component to calculate the allowance amount.
  6. The Overall salary component adds all the other component amounts together to get the overall salary amount, such as 81,800.
Salary Details section of the New Hire action showing the simple component percentages, amounts, and annual amounts, and the proposed annual salary.