Concept: Retro and Run Categories
You can configure your regular pay run category for both:
- Retro payroll calculations, to calculate retro differences.
- Payroll calculations, to process calculated retro differences.
Retro Payroll Calculations
For retro payroll calculations, Workday uses the run category to determine:
- Which workers to process.
- Which pay components to recalculate for a prior period.
Workday automatically processes all workers with supported retro events, who are:
- Active.
- On leave.
To process terminated workers with supported retro events, you can select
Terminated with Retroactive Events (for Retro Pay Calc only)
from the Status
prompt.Payroll Calculations with Retro Differences to Process
As with any payroll calculation, Workday uses the
Workers to Process
grid to determine which workers with retro differences to process. Workday always processes retro differences identified by a retro calculation, regardless of the:
- Pay component eligibility.
- Pay components on theNonactive (On Cycle, On Demand Replacement)tab of the run category.
Select the
Disable Automatic Retro Differences Processing for Non-Active Workers
check box on the Edit Tenant Setup - Payroll
task to continue to use your pay component configuration on the nonactive tab for run categories when processing retro entries in the pay calculation.Multiple Run Categories for a Pay Group
When you run the
Run Retro Pay Calculation
task, Workday detects retro changes for all run categories associated with the selected pay group. Example: When a worker is processed on the regular run category, Workday also detects any retro changes for the worker based on the pay components in a bonus run category.