Element Entry Methods

Create element entries for compensation or basic benefits for an employee assignment. For example, you can create element entries for an employee's overtime hours or medical premium deduction amount.

Create an element entry using these methods:

• Manual entry on the Element Entries page

• Automatic entry for all eligible workers

• Automatic entry by other processes

In addition, web services are available to manage element entries.

Manual Entry

On the Element Entries page, you can do these actions:

• Create manual entries for some elements, such as voluntary deductions.

• View element entries for a person on the summary page, including entries created automatically by other processes.

• If the element is costed at the element entry level, specify costing overrides.

• Sort the list of entries by element name.

Automatic Entry for All Eligible Workers

When you create an eligibility record with automatic entry option, the application submits a process that creates element entries for all eligible workers. This option also ensures that hiring eligible workers in the future automatically creates an element entry for them.

Automatic Entry by Other Processes

Certain processes and actions within salary administration, compensation, benefits, and payroll can generate new element entries. Maintain these entries through the original processes that generated them. Don't maintain them on the Element Entries page.

Consider these examples.

• If you associate a salary element with a salary basis, assigning workers to that salary basis automatically creates element entries.

• Allocating other compensation and benefits, or adding a payroll component to a personal calculation card, automatically creates element entries.