Determines how a wage type is to behave online or when payroll is run.

Wage type characteristics can be subdivided as follows:

Wage type characteristics that determine the behavior of a wage type online, for example:

o Permissibility of entry o Treatment of a wage type as a payment or deduction wage type o Direct or indirect treatment of a wage type

Wage type characteristics that determine the behaviour of a wage type in payroll or in the evaluation of the payroll results, for example

o Processing classes o Cumulations o Evaluation classes

Example

You want to define a maximum wage type amount of $1000 and a minimum of $10.The maximum wage type number may be 100, the minimum 1.The wage type amount should not be included in the totals line of basic pay.You must enter a wage type amount.You should only be able to enter the number for a wage type.You want to set certain units of time and measurement for the number.Wage types should be valuated indirectly.

Requirements: You have set up the wage type catalog and pay scales in the previous step.You have defined your wage type catalog and compiled a list of wage type characteristics.

Standard settings: The standard system contains model wage types which you can copy to your wage type area. Copied wage types have the same characteristics as the model ones.

Recommendation: If you intend to use payroll, familiarize yourself with its functionality. You may be setting up wage types which already exist.

Activities

1. Define the validity period for wage type characteristics.2. Define the operation indicator.3. Define the maximum and minimum wage type amount.4. If you want to edit a wage type for entry in the Basic Pay infotype (0008), determine whether the amount should be included in the total basic pay.5. Define the default units of time/measurement and the minimum and maximum number.6. Define the number/amount input combinations.7. Define indirect valuation characteristics.

Indirect valuation is possible in the following infotypes:

Basic Pay (0008)Recurring Payments/Deductions (0014)Additional Payments (0015)Wage Maintenance (0052)

8. If you want to use Time Management, define whether the wage type is a bonus or basic hourly pay.9. Delete any unnecessary wage types.

Further notes: Only define wage types which can be entered in above infotypes; wage types which are generated in payroll do not need to be defined. Select your wage types

Select your wage types

Here we make Wage Type Characteristics

This your selected wage type which you going to change the characteristics

Dates - Everyone knows how important dates are in SAP – wage types are no exception. You can hold different configuration for a wage type for specific date periods.

Click on the > symbol to see whether there are more records for different date periods.

SAP confusingly calls the start date "Start Time" and the end date "Exit". It's pretty obvious when you look at the data itself.

Amount - Minimum and maximum values – you can specify minimum and maximum values for a wage type.

This is useful to stop input errors at source. Having meaningful values set here can prevent errors at the input stage rather than having to find them in your payroll exception reports or even at a later stage.

The difficulty most customers find that it is very hard to decide on what values to use for each instance. Our recommendation is to configure meaningful values for most of the wage types that are input manually. You might only prevent a few incorrect inputs of data, but it may well save your organisation a lot of money.

Add to total - Tick this indicator if you would like the value for this wage type to be included in the basic pay total for the employee.

If the wage type Deduction wage type so flag it

If you want to maintain Minimum amount to this wage type make it here.

Example

If your Wage type is Car Allowance, as the wage type tells car allowance will not be like $10 or $20 their will be some minimum that you can maintain, suppose if you enter some Rs. 5000 and End-user trying to enter less than that system will not take.

Same for Maximum amount.

Example

PA30 Master data, will see how system thous error

You must minimum 5000 but we enter 4000

Now we enter 6000 (More than 5000)

Now we enter 6000 (More than 5000)

Input combination - This controls what values are allowed at data entry – i.e. whether you have to enter an amount or you can enter either an amount or a number with units etc.

There are 5 options for both amount and number and these are controlled separately for both. The help is very useful in these fields and won't be repeated here.

Input combination amount

Definition

Define whether the amount and/or number/unit must be maintained for this wage type.The following entry combinations are possible:

Amount Number/unit Meaning

'X' ' X' Either amount or number/unit'-' '-' Neither amount nor number/unit'+' '-' Amount essential, no number/unit'-' '+' No amount, number/unit essential'*' '*' At least amount or number/unit'+' '.' Amount essential, number/unit optional'.' '+' Amount optional, number/unit essential'+' '+' Amount essential, number/unit essential'.' '.' Amount optional, no number/unit

NotePlease note that the contents of the Amount field are not evaluated for indirectly valuated wage types because the field is filled automatically by the R/3 System when indirect valuation occurs.

Number / Unit

Time Unit / Measurement - This allows you to stipulate the hours, months, years, shares etc If you have stipulated that the user is to enter units on the input combination, then you should choose one of the entries from the drop down.

Example Annual leave wage type you enter days as input.

Other example Overtime you enter hours as input.

You can create as many you can which are not in the drop down in PM -> PA.

You yourself find out.

Minumum and Maximum Number - This is the threshold value for minimum and maximum amount which can be entered for a wage type in the Basic pay infotype (0008).

If you create or change a wage type in the Basic pay infotype (0008), the system checks the minimum value of a wage type against the created or changed value.

If the value entered in the infotype exceeds the defined minimum value for the wage type, the system issues the relevant information message.

Same for Max. number like Overtime you can set like max. overtime hours are 10

http://www.wikinewforum.com/showthread.php?t=19399&page=12

Look at WT 1205 is overtime wage type

And overtime will enter only hours in Master data

Lets see how the WT Valuation happen, first take 01 as example

If you enter a wage type in the Statement Wage Type field, the valuation basis applies to this derived wage type.

Statement wage type

Statement wage types are used to allocate bonuses to a wage type under a different name in the payroll results.

Use: A wage type can be forwarded to and stored in payroll under a new name as a statement wage type. If you do not enter a statement wage type, the result is stored in the wage type itself.In contrast to the actual wage type, you always have to enter a statement wage type for derived wage types.

The wage type is multiplied by the percentage you enter here.

100% Full, other like 150%, 200%, 50%..

Here the WT 1205 Over Time BaseOutput comes like if you enter 10 Hours in Master Data so system will take 10*/001 of 100%

Wage type should in NUM, configuration you already seen in previous classes, here the overview

Here the place where we do WT characteristics, like is WT is AMOUNT/NUMBER

Before we go for Master Data and Payroll Results, we will assign to other WT's with similar scenario

Here WT is valuated 150 with /002 as Rate

Here WT is valuated 200% with /002 as Rate