Dialog characteristics define the behavior of a wage type. For example, if you configure the wage type to accept a number, it will accept a number or if you configure it to accept an amount, it will do so.
To ensure that the employees in your company receive the correct payment, you need to define different wage types.
The IMG steps that you must perform to define dialog wage types appear on the right side of the figure Dialog Characteristics of the Payment Structure in the SAP System using basic pay as an example.
Examples of wage types include the following:
- Standard pay and bonus pay
- Non-PS salary
- Vacation allowance
- Holiday bonus
- Special payments
Additional wage types for a production plant, for example, include the following:
- Hourly wage and bonus
- Hours related to work center
- Overtime 50%
- Clothing Allowance
Examples of Dialog Characteristics
You must create wage types before an employee’s pay can be calculated.
Wage types have the following functions:
- Permissibility check for wage and salary types for the following:
- Each personnel area and personnel subarea
- Each employee group and employee subgroup
- Each infotype: If an infotype has a subtype that is a wage type, the time constraint determines how often the wage type can be available at any one time
- The operation indicator controls whether a wage type is a payment or a deduction
- The input combination controls which fields must be filled when you enter a wage type amount, number, or unit of time or measurement
A wage type can be valuated indirectly if you enter a module name, module variant, and a rounding indicator. The system then automatically reads the amount from the corresponding tables and you do not need to enter and store it in the Basic Pay infotype (0008).