A Standard pay increase allows you to automatically increase an employee’s standard pay. You can use this function for employees whose basic pay is determined on the basis of the pay scale structure to which they are assigned during Customizing.
Following are the two different procedures to determine the pay increase:
- Simple standard pay increase: In a simple standard pay increase, a change is made to a Customizing table (T510). This means that retroactive accounting recognition is not automatically triggered. This may be necessary, for example, if you have retroactive increases that relate to the payroll past. In addition, a simple standard pay increase does not create a new infotype record.
- Enhanced standard pay increase: If you run the enhanced standard pay increase, the system recognizes it as relevant for retroactive accounting and creates a new infotype record.
Which of these two procedures – standard or enhanced standard pay increase – is used to determine the pay increase depends on the following criteria:
- Whether the system should increase the amounts in the Customizing system by a certain amount or by a percentage.
- Whether the system should update the pay history in the Basic Pay infotype (0008).
Performing a Simple Standard Pay Increase
When increasing an employee’s pay through a simple standard pay increase, you must first run report RPU51000 to change the pay scale groups and levels on the key date.
The system reads the actual monetary value from the relevant table when performing indirect valuation. If you enter a date in the Indirect valuation field in the Basic Pay infotype (0008), the system displays the currently valid amounts.
To facilitate the processing of a standard pay increase, the activities for changing Customizing settings and master data are kept separate. If you want to create a Basic Pay history (0008), run report RPITRF00 to delimit the basic pay records on the key date specified.
Performing an Enhanced Standard Pay Increase
Payroll processes the Basic Pay infotype (0008), as well as pay scale groups and levels for a specific period. When you increase amounts by changing the settings in Customizing, the system updates the Basic Pay infotype history (0008) for indirectly valuated wage types.
You can use the RPITRF00 report to generate a basic pay history for a specific period of time.
Batch Input Processing
Mass data changes that are triggered by reports are normally made using a batch input session and not immediately. The changes are not made to the master data until the batch input session has been processed.
To call the initial screen for the batch input system, choose System→Services→Batch Input→Sessions .
You can then select a session using any combination of the following criteria:
- Session name
- Creation date (according to session overview)
- Session status
Choose Overview to display the session overview. You can use the session overview to start, analyze, or delete sessions.
Choose Log to display the session log. When each session is processed, a log is automatically created. You can use the list of session logs to carry out additional actions, for example, to analyze sessions.
You can choose from the following three types of processing options:
- Process online:
- With this option, you can correct transactions interactively and run transactions that you have not yet executed in phases.
- Only display errors:
- The only display errors processing type is similar to processing online; the only difference is that you cannot process transactions that are free of errors and have not been executed interactively. The system displays the screen on which the error occurs.
- Background:
- The background processing type schedules a session to be processed immediately in the background.