Payroll Relationships for the US

A payroll relationship represents the association between a person and a payroll statutory unit (PSU).

A PSU is the legal entity responsible for employee payment. Payroll relationships group a person's employment assignment records based on the payroll statutory calculation and reporting requirements. Payroll relationships help you capture and extract any HR and payroll-related data you want to send to a third party, such as a payroll processing provider.

Payroll processing always occurs at the payroll relationship level. When you display the payroll process results for a person, you:

Select the person's payroll relationship record.
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Payroll relationships aggregate balances at the payroll relationship level. Within a payroll relationship, payroll processes can aggregate balances for multiple assignment records. Balances don't span payroll relationships.

How Payroll Relationship Rules Map to Person Types

There's a predefined mapping between each person type and payroll relationship type.

You must use these predefined payroll relationship types. You can't create your own.

Payroll relationship type	How it affects its person types
Standard	Includes them in payroll runs
Element Entry Only	Creates only element entries for them Excludes them from payroll processing

The following relationship-mapping rules show how the person types relate to the payroll relationship types.

This person type	Uses this payroll relationship type
Contingent Worker	Element Entry Only
Employee	Standard
Nonworker	Standard
Pending Worker	Element Entry Only

How Payroll Relationships Affect Terminations

You can't terminate a person's payroll relationship while they still have active employment assignments. After you have ended all employment assignments, you can either terminate the payroll relationship or leave it active.

Note:

If you keep the relationship active, you can reuse it and the PSU when rehiring the person.