Technical wage type for the actual employee salary in payroll.
You need to specify a technical wage type for plans with contributions that are defined as a percentage of salary, in order to determine the basis for contribution calculation.
You can also use a technical wage type instead of a compensation model to provide the pensionable earnings for retirement plans. In this case you also need to specify a compensation wage type to which values are transferred from the technical wage type.
You define the cumulation of values in your technical wage type by assigning a cumulation class to the relevant wage types in the view V_512W_D Processing Classes, Cumulations, and Evaluation Classes.
This wage type does not determine salary for the following purposes:
In these cases, the benefit salary wage type is used.