Basic Pay (Infotype 0008)
You can add this infotype to the action menu in the Master Data Application and it can also be used for processes in the FPM and roadmap forms.
If you want to use this infotype in processes, please see the Customizing Activity 
Personnel Management
Personnel & Organization
Processes
Design Time for Processes and Forms
.
If you want to use this infotype in an action menu, please see the Customizing Activity Personnel Management
Personnel & Organization
Role
Configure Launchpad for Actions
.
This is an infotype in which you can store the employee’s basic pay. You can get an overview of the employee’s payroll history using the infotype history.
Caution
When an employee leaves a company you are not permitted to delimit the Basic Pay
infotype (0008). Basic payroll data must remain in the system. This is the only way of ensuring the accuracy of any retroactive accounting runs that need to be performed.
In the Personnel & Organization
component, you can process this infotype directly in the master data application or via a process (for example, when hiring an employee).
Structure
The standard system contains the following payment types as subtypes:
Basic Contract
Increase Basic Contract
Comparable Domestic Pay
Refund of Costs in Foreign Currency
Local Weighting Allowance
Pay Scale
The system automatically proposes the Pay Scale Type
and the Pay Scale Area
. However, you can overwrite these values.
You always have to specify the Pay Scale Group
and Pay Scale Level
together. You can create pay scale groups and the related pay scale levels in Customizing for Personnel & Organization
under Infotypes
Infotypes for Employees
International Infotypes
Basic Pay (Infotype 0008)
Revise Pay Scale Groups and Levels
.
Wage Types
If you want to insert a data record, the system automatically suggests the wage types. There are a few wage types which you cannot overwrite or delete:
Indirectly valuated wage types may not be overwritten, since this would cause the indirect valuation to be lost.
For indirect valuation, a data record of the Planned Working Time infotype (0007) must be created for the employee.
The
Amount
of indirectly valuated wage types is only displayed and not saved.You can enter up to 40 wage types for each employee. You can specify the number of wage types in the
Planned Payment Specification
feature (LGMST) in Customizing forPersonnel & Organization
under Infotypes
Infotypes for Employees
International Infotypes
Basic Pay (Infotype 0008)
Wage Types
Define Wage Type Models
.
NoteIf fewer permitted wage types are defined in Customizing, fewer rows are available in the infotype.
End of the note.The sum total of payments (
Total Amount
) is calculated by the system. All wage types that according to the settings in Customizing are to be included in the sum total are flagged in theAdd.Total
field (Add to Sum Total
).
Integration
Country-Specific Features
This infotype has country-specific features for some countries. For more information, see in this application documentation under Infotypes
Infotypes for Employees
Country-Specific Infotypes
if for your country, there is specific information regarding this infotype.
Prerequisites
The Customizing for this infotype must be set up. You can find the relevant activities in Customizing for Personnel & Organization
under Infotypes
Infotypes for Employees
International Infotypes
Basic Pay (Infotype 0008)
.
Furthermore it is possible that for this infotype there are also specific settings for your country. You can check this and access these settings in Customizing for Personnel & Organization
under Infotypes
Infotypes for Employees
Country-Specific Infotypes and Infotype Settings
<Country>
Basic Pay (Infotype 0008)
.