EPY: When Adding a Specific Compensation Percent (%) On Top of Base Pay, the Employee Paycheck Does Not Add the Additional Rate Value to Regular Pay (Doc ID 2898367.1)

Last updated on APRIL 15, 2024

Applies to:

Symptoms

When creating a new Compensation Rate Code using compensation type 'Percent', then adding this second compensation rate code on Job for an employee, after calculating the pay for the next pay period, the regular pay is not increased by the expected percentage value.


The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps:

1. Create compensation codes for hourly and salary (Set Up HCM > Product Related > Payroll for North America > Compensation and Earnings > Compensation Rate Code Table)
        - Use Compensation Type: Percent
        - Check on Base Pay
2. Add the rate code to the job data compensation tab (Workforce Administration > Job Information > Job Data)
        - Search for the specific Employee
        - Add a new Effective dated row that is earlier than the first day of the pay period for the employee
        - Go to Pay Components
        - Add a new row to have two rate codes
        - Click Calculate Compensation
         - Save
        - Note that the compensation on the page shows the updated values
3. Create Paysheets (Payroll for North America > Payroll Processing USA > Create and Load Paysheets > Create Paysheets)
4. Run pay calculation (Payroll for North America > Payroll Processing USA > Produce Payroll > Calculate Payroll)
5. Review paycheck - the compensation did not change; it is only taking the original compensation rate into account.

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