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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2026-10-02
Payroll

Payroll

October 2, 2026

Earnings, Deductions, and Other Calculations

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Removed an outdated example from the Requirements section.

Retroactive Payroll

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Specified the relevant check box on Edit Tenant Setup - Payroll task in the first paragraph.

September 18, 2026

Earnings, Deductions, and Other Calculations

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Added information for Payroll for Australia and the UK on displaying position details on payslips.

Labor Costing

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Added an Exclude Earnings section that explains what happens when you exclude earnings from net pay liability.

Multiple Jobs

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Added information for Australia.

Payroll Input

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Expanded the Business Processes section to describe using the Request Payroll Inputs business process to request the editing or deletion of payroll inputs
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Expanded the Context and Next Steps sections to provide more information on requesting an edit or delete of a payroll input request for a worker.
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On Step 2, added a row with information on using special entry.
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How to request the editing or deletion of a payroll input for a worker.

Payroll Processing

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Updated Steps 1 and 2 with the information on ERR to Revenue and non-taxable benefits.
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Expanded the Questions to Consider section to describe adding and deleting attachments on checklist items.
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Expanded the Context and Result sections and added an optional step 5 to describe managing attachments on payroll processing checklists.

Payroll Third-Party Payments

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Added UK Salary Sacrifice option to the payroll third-party payments list.
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Added a section on UK Salary Sacrifice feature.
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In step 5, added a note on the Enable Salary Sacrifice check box.
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Added a section about Salary Sacrifice for Payroll for the UK.

Payroll and Accounting Results

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Added a bullet about salary sacrifice lines to the Limitations section.
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Information to consider before setting up Pay Accounting Reallocation.
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How to set up pay accounting reallocations.
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How to run pay accounting reallocation.
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How to cancel a pay accounting reallocation.
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Provides additional information about pay accounting reallocations.

Payroll for Australia

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Removed sentence saying that you can't add an amount as a percentage.

Payroll for Canada

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In the Limitations section, removed the statement that Workday doesn't support retroactive paid sick leave. This feature is now available.
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In step 10, removed instructions to not recalculate during retro.

Payroll for Ireland

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Added a new section to provide more information on snapshot periods.
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How to set up gender pay gap reporting for Payroll for Ireland.

Payroll for the U.S.

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Added information about Box 14a, Box 12 TA, Box 12 TP, Box 12 TT, and Box 14b.

Payroll for the UK

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Added link to Pensioner Payroll
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Added Pensioner as a new reason in the table in step 3.
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How to configure Payroll for the UK to process pensioner employee types.
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Provides additional information about Workday-provided UK pensioner types.

Payslips

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In the Questions to Consider section, added a question for Payroll for Australia and the UK about configuring payslips for workers with multiple positions.
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On Step 2, added a row to explain the Display Position option for Payroll for Australia and the UK.
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Added a new step 4 that describes how to configure payslips for Payroll for Australia and the UK to display position details for workers.
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On Step 3, added a note to provide more information on updating custom reports for Payroll for Australia and the UK to include position details.
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Added information on displaying absence balances for multiple positions for Payroll for Australia and the UK.

Retroactive Payroll

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In step 4, added information about the ~Employees~ to Exclude prompt.
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Describes the concept of active and terminated worker exclusion in retro calculation.

Year-End Tax Reporting

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Expand the Questions to Consider section to include information about TTOCs.