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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2025-09-19
Reference: Payroll Configuration Reports

Reference: Payroll Configuration Reports

Workday provides reports that describe the current payroll configuration in your tenant.
Report
Description
Accumulation Types
Workday-delivered accumulation types, and usage counts for times each type.
All Balance Periods
Balance periods by category (Payroll, Absence, Compensation), and how Workday calculates period start and end dates.
All Deductions
Detailed information about each deduction available in Workday, including:
  • Pay component groups that include the deduction.
  • Deduction criteria, including run category eligibility, worker eligibility, and scheduling formulas.
  • Calculation details, including calculation formula and overrides, calculation worktags, and related calculations.
  • Benefit plan information.
  • Whether you've excluded a deduction from forward accruals.
  • Whether workers can elect it through employee self-service.
All Earnings
Detailed information about each earning available in Workday, including:
  • Pay component groups that include the earning.
  • Earning criteria, including run category eligibility, worker eligibility, and scheduling formulas.
  • Calculation details, including calculation formula and overrides, calculation worktags, and related calculations.
  • Compensation element and proration.
  • Limit calculations for earning amounts.
All Pay Accumulations
Detailed information about each pay accumulation available in Workday, including:
  • Elements that add to and subtract from the pay accumulation.
  • Limit calculations for pay accumulation amounts.
  • Calculation and display exceptions.
  • Other pay accumulations and pay groups that use the pay accumulation.
All Pay Balances
Each pay balance, its associated balance period, and its associated application calculation method.
All Pay Component Groups
Each pay component group, its usage type (earnings, deductions, or pay component related calculations), its earnings or deductions, and its related calculations.
All Pay Component Related Calculations
Each pay component related calculation, the pay component that it supports, and the related calculation that it’s based on.
All Related Calculations
Each related calculation and the pay component related calculations based on it.
Ambiguous Earning Compensation Mapping Audit
Earnings with one or more ambiguous mappings:
  • Earning mapped to compensation plans of different types.
  • Earning mapped to 2 or more hourly plans.
  • Earning mapped to 2 or more percent-based compensation plans.
  • Earning mapped to 2 or more unit-based compensation plans.
Payment Election Rules
Rules that govern payment options available to workers for payroll and expense payments. For each rule, Workday displays:
  • Rule type (payroll, payroll interface, or expense).
  • Run category for payment, if any.
  • Allowed payment types (such as check and direct deposit).
  • Maximum number of payment elections, and whether you can mix payment types.
  • Allowed distribution calculations (flat amount, percentage, or both).
  • Default payment type, if any.
To edit payment election rules, use the
Maintain Payment Election Rules
task.
Sample Check Images
For Payroll for Canada and the U.S.:
Sample check images and text instructions to help users enter bank account details for payment elections in supported countries. To add a sample check image and text instructions for a country, use the
Edit Sample Check Image
task.