Payroll Area 

Definition

A group of employees for whom payroll should be run together, and at the same time.

Use

You can perform the Payroll separately for different employee groups, using different payroll areas. This is necessary if the payroll period is not the same for all employee groups.

Salaried employees in your enterprise receive their salary at the end of the month. Hourly wage earners receive their remuneration in the middle of the subsequent month.

You can also group together all employees in one payroll area that should not be included in the payroll run. To do so, you create a payroll area for which you do not select the Run payroll indicator.

When you run payroll, you must specify the payroll area in the payroll driver selection screen. The payroll area has the following functions:

Structure

The payroll area contains the following information:

Integration

Every payroll area needs its own payroll control record.