Standard Pay Increase 
Standard Pay Increase
Use
You may encounter automatic standard pay increases for employees whose basic pay has been calculated indirectly, based on the assignment to a particular pay scale structure, in accordance with the Customizing settings. For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Personnel Management under Personnel Administration
® Payroll Data ® Basic Pay ® Pay Scale Changes ® Pay Scale Increase.Scope of Function
The system differentiates between the following types of standard pay increases:
Simple Standard Pay Increase
The amounts in the Customizing settings are increased by a specific amount or percentage rate.
Extended Standard Pay Increase
The history in the Basic Pay infotype (0008) is updated. You can also modify directly valuated wage types and use different increase variants. You can use increase variants, for example, to insert new wage types, replace existing wage types with new ones, or delimit existing wage types without replacement.
In the following cases, you can use an extended standard pay increase in addition to a simple standard pay increase:
The extended standard pay increase saves infotype records in database PA0008. This reduces memory space on the hard disk.