Wage Type Catalog (SAP Library

Wage Type Catalog

Definition

A directory of all the wage types used in Payroll.

Use

The wage type catalog in the standard system includes model wage types that are configured for the Payroll process. You generate your wage types by copying the model wage types to your customer namespace. You can then modify the copies to suit your company-specific requirements.

Caution

Only use customer-specific wage types in your live payroll run.

You edit the wage type catalog, for example:

In Customizing for Personnel Administration by choosing Payroll Data for each infotype

In Customizing for Payroll by choosing Basic Settings ® Environment of Wage Type Maintenance ® Create Wage Type Catalog

For more information, access the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Personnel Administration and choose Payroll Data ® Wage Type Concept.

Structure

The SAP wage type catalog

It includes all primary and secondary wage types required for Payroll.

Customer-specific wage type catalog

You create the customer-specific wage type catalog in Customizing by copying SAP model wage types into the customer-specific namespace.