Salary rounding is the primary reason for salaries to not match what is showing in your payroll system. It is important to know what indexes or rates payroll is using to calculate the salaries in the payroll system. PDF’s of salary schedules or Excel spreadsheets with hidden decimal places are the cause for there being differences in calculation results. Rounding at intermediate steps in a salary calculation can result in pennies to dollars differences in the final salary. So it is important to understand where rounding can be done.
Rounding defaults can be set up in PeopleWerksHR at two levels – at the Classification level and the Salary Schedule level. The rounding can be overridden, however, at the employee job level for the final Salary Total.
Rounding can also be applied in the Salary Schedule Admin section in the Fiscal menu. As salary schedules are updated utilizing percentage increases, the number of resulting decimal places is important to consider so that salary calculations in PeopleWerksHR will match what payroll uses. So, you will be required to enter the rounding level at the time you enter a percentage change.