US Payroll - Pay Rates

Overview

Pay rates can be defined by trade, customer, job, union, and employee. Default pay rates can also be set for individual employees in the Employee Profile.

When defining a pay rate for a trade, customer, job, union, or employee, the system looks to the appropriate pay rate table and defaults it to timesheet entry. If a rate can’t be found in that table, the system looks to the employee pay rate table. If no rate is found at that level, the system looks to the Employee Profile for the base rate. If a rate is still not found then the timesheet entry program returns an error stating that no rate could be found.

The exception to this rule is when an employee is working on a prevailing wage job that has the ‘Rate By Job Box’ checked. Please refer to the section on Job Work Locations Maintenance in the Company Setup for further details. In this case the system automatically takes the job pay rate regardless of the preference pay rate setting in the Employee Profile.

As all of the pay rate screens are highly similar, please refer to the US Payroll - Trade Pay Rates section for information on all other screens.