Calendars

Payroll Calendars

The payroll calendar describes how the settlement runs are displayed in the calendar. The calendar in the system culture serves as the basis. The Payroll Calendar determines the frequency of wage payments with the wage cycle, the wage period and the weekly and annual definition. Each tenant has one or more calendar definitions that are addressed by different objects.

The payroll calendar is the basis for case fields with the time type Period and CalendarPeriod.

Calendar types

The payroll calendar divides the business data into two time units:

• Period in which the salary is paid, usually the calendar month (PeriodTimeUnit).
• Cycle in which the salary periods repeat, usually the calendar year (CycleTimeUnit).

The cycle time unit is always a multiple of the period time unit.

The following overview shows the possible combinations of the two time units with the number of wage payments in a cycle.

Cycle → Period ↓	Week	Bi-Week	Semi-Month	Lunar-Month	Month	Bi-Month	Quarter	Semi-Year	Year
Week	1	2	-	4	-	-	13	26	52
Bi-Week	-	1	-	2	-	-	-	13	26
Semi-Month 3)	-	-	1	-	2	4	6	12	24
Lunar-Month	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	13
Month 1)	-	-	-	-	1	2	3	6	12 4)
Bi-Month 2)	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	3	6
Quarter 2)	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	2	4
Semi-Year 2)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	2
Year 2)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1

¹⁾ Override the effective number of days in the calendar month with an average value.
²⁾ Fiscal years with the year starting on any calendar month.
³⁾ Month breakdown: 1 to 15 and 16 to days in month.
⁴⁾ Default payroll calendar.

Calendar example

Example of different payroll calendars.

1   "calendars": [
2     {
3       "name": "YearlySalary",
4       "cycleTimeUnit": "Year",
5       "periodTimeUnit": "CalendarMonth",
6       "valueType": "Cycle"
7     },
8     {
9       "name": "MonthlySalary",
10      "cycleTimeUnit": "Year",
11      "periodTimeUnit": "CalendarMonth",
12      "valueType": "Period"
13    },
14    {
15      "name": "QuarterSalary",
16      "cycleTimeUnit": "Year",
17      "periodTimeUnit": "Quarter",
18      "firstMonthOfYear": "April",
19      "valueType": "Period"
20    }
21  ]

Die Kalender im Detail:

• 3: Custom calendar name YearlySalary
• 4: Cycle time type is Year
• 5: Period time type is CalendarMonth
• 6: Data apply to the cycle: annual wages
• 9: Custom calendar name MonthlySalary
• 10: Cycle time type is Year
• 11: Period time type is CalendarMonth
• 12: Data apply to the period: monthly wages
• 15: Custom calendar name QuarterSalary
• 16: Cycle time type is Year
• 17: Period time type is Quarter
• 18: Start of the year isApril
• 19: Data apply to the period: quarterly wages

Calendar usage

The evaluation of the calendar in the wage run is carried out according to the following priority:

1. Wage Type
2. Empoloyee
3. Division
4. Tenant