DetailsEmployee Salary (Review) Detail records hold future salary increases and keeps previous salary review decisions, such as when an employee last received a pay increase and how much, on record. Later, on or after the effective date, processing a salary-update batch posts adjusted pay amounts and modes to master records.
Best practices include the following: (1) record salary changes on new Employee Salary Detail records effective on the begin date of a future pay period for the affected employee, and (2) process a salary update batch before recording pay entry information for a pay period.
Any retro-pay needs to be entered through pay entry, and split-rates need to be entered through pay rate or position details and detailed pay entry. When a pay entry method uses the hourly rate from the master record, the rate is applied when the record is processed to detailed pay entry or saved.
A shortcut to the Employee Salary Detail is available from the Compensation tab on the Employee HR Master.
Anytime that an employee receives a salary increase, a business can record the raise before the rate becomes effective on a new employee salary detail record. Changing rates through salary details and the salary-batch process means businesses don't have to wait until the last minute to enter rate increases. It also ensures that identifying when an increase was last received by an employee does not require the system audit trail or payroll reports.
For instance, management decides to increase a star-performer's pay by 20% from $1,000 biweekly, beginning the first pay period of next quarter. Management adds a new salary detail without changing the adjusted pay amount, enters a percentage change of 20, and saves. Saving the record updates the adjusted pay amount on the detail to 1200, and the raise goes into effect on or after the recorded effective date when a salary-update batch is processed within the client code.
Months or years later, management can view posted employee salary review details and associated reports, such as the Employee Salary Review Report, PER00041, to see when this employee received an increase and how much.