Basic Pay Infotype (0008) 

You can store the employee’s basic pay in the Basic Pay infotype (0008). You can get an overview of the employee’s payroll history using the infotype history.

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.

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

You can process the Basic Pay infotype (0008) on its own or with a personnel action. If you want to create a new data record, enter the payment type on the Maintain HR Master Data screen. The payment type is already set if you carry out a personnel action.

If you copy a data record, the values in the Pay Scale Type, Pay Scale Area, Capacity Utilization Level, and Work Hours/Period fields are redetermined and not copied, depending on the Use Default Values for Infotypes feature (DFINF). However, the values in the Capacity Utilization Level and Work Hours/Period fields are copied if the values in the old data record do not match the default values at that time.

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 Administration by choosing Payroll Data ® Basic Pay ® 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. If fewer permitted wage types are defined in Customizing, fewer rows are available in the infotype.

·        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 the Add.Total field (Add to Sum Total).

See also:

Performing a Pay Scale Reclassification

Performing a Standard Pay Increase

Country-Specific Features

·        Great Britain: Basic Pay (Infotype 0008): GB Flexible Benefits Specifics