Wage Types and Premium Rules

Settings, Payroll section, Wage types & premiums card. It has three parts: wage types, premium rules and calculation behavior, plus the public holiday calendar.

Maintain the number, name and type for each wage type. The types are Base wage, Premium, Absence, Manual item and Other.

The number must be unique within the company and can be adapted to the payroll software you use. The number and name are included in the wage type CSV file.

Entries marked System are predefined and cannot be deleted. Their functional type is fixed. However, their number, name and active status can still be changed. A wage type used by a rule also cannot be deleted.

There are two rule types. Time window: start and end as HH:MM, plus weekdays and a public holiday mode (public holidays irrelevant, public holidays only, exclude public holidays). The window may extend past midnight. Enter 00:00 to 24:00 for a full day. If no weekdays are selected, the rule applies on all days.

Monthly overtime: above an hours threshold for each security officer and calendar month.

For each rule, select the wage type used for the payment and the percentage. Rules may overlap. Every match is paid under its wage type. This is intentional and differs from invoicing, where each minute receives a premium only once.

Four switches affect the entire payroll preview:

• Continued remuneration during absence. Approved sickness and leave are paid on an approximate basis.
• Basis during sickness. Either the daily rate based on contractual hours or planned shifts under the Lohnausfallprinzip, meaning the loss-of-earnings principle. Leave always remains based on contractual hours.
• Prorate fixed pay. On entry or departure, fixed pay is divided according to the actual calendar days in the month.
• Time rounding. Interval in minutes and direction: commercial rounding, rounding down or rounding up. The card also shows a calculation example.

Rounding applies once across the report, payroll, analysis and working time account. It is not recalculated separately for each view.

The country and, where relevant, the federal state determine which public holidays the rules match. Without a federal state, only nationwide public holidays apply.

The same calendar is also used for a deal's public holiday rates.