Determining Payroll-Relevant Employee Master Data

In other courses, you have learned about master data and how to work with it using infotypes. This course focuses on the payroll process, which is driven by payroll-relevant employee master data. Some of you work with employee data and enter it into the system, but others may not. Even if you don’t, it is essential to know how to properly set up an employee’s account so that there won’t be errors when it comes time to pay them. Understanding this information helps you communicate with those who do work with that data to ensure the best employee experience with the system.

During employment, a series of processes or events such as hiring, organizational reassignment, salary increase, leaving, and rehiring, can take place. These events can involve one or many infotypes. Some of these events can be relevant to salary and they need to be tracked by updating the relevant infotypes. If these events occur in the payroll past, they trigger retroactive accounting.

So, how do you determine if employee master data is relevant? You can view the infotype details by navigating to T582A and T588G.

Press play on the video below to learn how to find out which infotypes are relevant to payroll.