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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2025-06-27
Set Up Earnings for Academic Pay

Set Up Earnings for Academic Pay

  • Security:
    Set Up: Academic Pay
    in the Academic Faculty functional area.
  • Create academic pay periods.
  • Enable compensation elements for academic pay.
  • Define any necessary job families and job profiles.
Creating earnings for academic pay enables Workday to calculate workers' pay for Payroll, while also recording information specific to academic workers.
  1. Access the
    Create Earning
    task.
  2. In the
    Worker Eligibility
    field on the
    Criteria
    section, enter
    Academic Pay enabled for Pay Component
    .
    You can enter additional instance value calculations to create a worker eligibility rule that controls the calculation of the earning.
  3. Use the
    Calculation Details
    section to define pay-component related calculations that retrieve the related calculations for academic pay values from Workday Compensation.
    Select an academic pay-instance value calculation in the
    Calculation
    field.
    Select all 4 of these related calculations in the
    Related Calculation
    field:
    • Academic Pay: Amount Accrued
    • Academic Pay: Previous Result Amount Accrued Balance
    • Academic Pay: Amount Earned
    • Academic Pay: Amount Paid
    To ensure that academic pay calculates correctly when running a retro pay calculation, select the
    Do Not Recalculate During Retro
    check box.
    For the
    Academic Pay: Previous Result Amount Accrued Balance
    related calculation, Workday recommends you don't select the
    Do Not Store if Zero
    option in the
    Results
    section of the
    Related Calculations
    grid. Selecting this option prevents Workday from carrying forward the amount accrued, which may affect the accuracy of pay calculations in subsequent pay periods. Workday recommends selecting
    None of the above
    instead.
  4. Use the
    Compensation Element
    section to map the earning to academic pay enabled compensation elements.
  5. (Optional) In the
    Time
    section, if the earning pays hours entered through Workday Time Tracking, use the
    Time Codes (Timesheets only)
    field to specify which hours to retrieve.
  6. Use the
    Time Calculation Tags
    field to map the earning to Payroll, identifying how to pay time.
  7. Select the
    Non-Effective Dated
    tab.
  8. Use the
    Groups
    section to map the earning to groups.
  9. Use the
    Benefits
    section to map the earning to a benefit plan.