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SAP HR wage types

Quick internal links:

Primary (dialog) and secondary (technical) wage types | New wage type | Permissibility for infotypes | Wage type groupings | Wage Type Characteristics | Default Wage Types (LGMST feature) | Valuation of Wage Types (TARIF, PRZNT, SUMME features)

Wage Type Characteristics

These characteristics describe way of entering of wage types, but they do not describe how they behave in payroll.
You can define followings:

  • Validity period
  • Operation indicator
  • Minimum and maximum wage type amount
  • Whether or not the wage type amount should be included in the basic pay total
  • Default units of time/measurement, minimum and maximum number
  • Input combinations for number and amount
  • Indirect valuation and its characteristics

You define this under SPRO path or using view V_T511:
Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Payroll data -> Basic Pay -> Wage Type -> Check Wage Type Catalog -> Check Wage Type Chracteristics

Default Wage Types

The system can suggest a default wage type for basic pay (IT0008), to do this appropriate wage type must be included in a wage type model. Here you define the default wage types and the sequence how they should appear in the infotype Basic Pay and whether you can overwrite the defaulted wage type or not.
Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Payroll data -> Basic Pay -> Wage Type -> Revise Default Wage Types

After setting wage type model, LGMST feature need to be defined. Feature LGMST has two return values: firstly, the maximum number of enterable wage types in the Basic Pay infotype (IT0008), and secondly, the wage type model the system is to use, which was defied above.

To access feature LGMST use following SPRO path or transaction PE03:
Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Payroll data -> Basic Pay -> Wage Type -> Enterprise Structure for Wage Type Model

Valuation of Wage Types

There are two valuation types:

  • DIRECT - the amount used to valuate the wage type is entered in the infotype manually
  • INDIRECT - system automatically calculates the amount of the wage type amount based on simple configuration and enters it in the infotype. You can use indirect valuation for infotypes Basic Pay (0008), Recurring Payments/Deductions (0014), Additional Payments (0015).

How to set indirect valuation

First you need to make appropriate settings in Wage Type Characteristics:
Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Payroll data -> Basic Pay -> Wage Type -> Check Wage Type Catalog -> Check Wage Type Chracteristics or view V_T511.
Choose the wage type for which you want to use indirect valuation.
In the group box Indirect valuation choose the indirect valuation module, which specifies which valuation table is used for indirect valuation. Then specify module variant, which controls read access to the table. To get information about all modules that could be used, use Help pressing F1 on the field Indirect valuation module.

Following are most popular modules:

  • TARIF - uses pay scale data from the pay scale groups and levels to sets the amount of wage type in Basic Pay (IT0008) infotype
  • PRZNT and SUMME - system calculates certain wage types as a percentage (PRZNT) or sum (SUMME) of other wage types

For some modules you need to set how calculation should go. It can be done by simple configuration:
Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Payroll data -> Basic Pay -> Wage Type -> Define Valuation of Base Wage Types

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