SAP HR wage types
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Wage types are used to assign payments and deductions as well as to control the payroll program.
You need wage types to pay employees.
In the SAP system there are two main categories:
- Primary or dialog wage types
- Secondary or technical wage types
In the standard delivered SAP HR system you can find many sample wage types both dialog (codes starting with letter eg. Mxxx)
and technical ones. Customer defined dialog wage type codes must start with digit. You can recognize technical wage types as
they have a slash (/) as the first character in the code name.
You set values to dialog wage types in infotypes (eg. 0008, 0014 or 0015).
Technical wage types are not part of the employee's master data. System defines their value during payroll processing.
Wage types characteristics can be set under following SPRO path:
Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Payroll data -> Basic Pay -> Wage Type
New wage type
To create new wage type you must copy existing one.
SAP HR contains model wage types.
If these sample wage types meet some of your company's requirements you can use the wage type copier.
You then use these copies as your wage types and can modify them so that they meet your specific requirements.
REMEMBER: Customer defined dialog wage type codes must start with digit.
The wage types that you create via the copy method are included in all of the wage type groups and tables as the original wage type
from which you copied. You can use the log to check what was copied.
Transaction for wage types coping: OH11 or use SPRO path:
Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Payroll data -> Basic Pay -> Wage Type -> Create Wage Type Catalog
Permissibility for infotypes
You can set up the system so that only certain wage types are permissible for infotypes.
You can do this under following SPRO path or using view V_T512Z (transaction SM30):
Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Payroll data -> Basic Pay -> Wage Type -> Check Wage Type Catalog -> Check entry permissibility per infotype
When you configure a wage type, you can determine whether it can be entered once or more than once per payroll period.
Groupings
Personnel subarea groupings can be used for
primary wage types to define wage type permissibility.
These groups can be used to determine which wage types can be entered for which employees.
There are two types of groupings:
- employee subgroup groupings
- personnel subarea grouping
Two main values for employees subgroup groupings are:
- 1 – for hourly paid employees
- 3 – for monthly paid employees
You define wage type permissibility for each personnel subarea and employee group under SPRO path or using view V_511_B:
Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Payroll data -> Basic Pay -> Wage Type -> Check Wage Type Catalog -> Define Wage Type Permissibility for each PS and ESG