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Last Updated: 2025-02-07
Steps: Manage Retro Results

Steps: Manage Retro Results

  • Review setup considerations for retroactive payroll results.
  • Run retro pay calculations.
  • Security:
    Reports: Pay Calculation Results for Pay Group (Results)
     domain in the Core Payroll functional area.
After you run retro and before running on-cycle pay calculations, you can verify retro results:
  • By pay group and retro processing dates.
  • For specific workers using facets, such as the worker status.
You can then determine how to manage them such as by suspending or canceling the results.
For Payroll for France, when workers change companies after you run retro and before you complete regular payroll, Workday forwards the differences to the current company.
  1. Run the
    Retro Calculation Processing Report
     for an overview of retro results such as the:
    • Volume of transactions.
    • Transaction types.
    • Whether there's unprocessed or unsupported retro.
  2. Use the facets to filter specific workers whose results you want to review.
    Example: You can select workers with unprocessed retro or high-value retro differences.
  3. Run the
    Retro Results Report
     to verify how Workday processes retro events, including unprocessed retro.
    Drill down into results for details such as the event types or their effective date.
  4. Run the
    Payroll Results Report
     to verify the impacts on the workers' on-cycle payroll.
    Drill down into results for details such as the breakdown of each pay component processed in retro.
  5. Address any retro changes that Workday doesn't calculate automatically with manual adjustments such as payroll inputs.
    For Payroll for Canada, Ireland, the UK, and the U.S., see Concept: Retro Differences That Require Manual Adjustments.
  7. (Optional) Select the workers whose results you want to suspend and click
    Suspend
    .
    Ensure that workers have in-progress retro results with the
    Supported Retro to process
     status.
    Security:
    Process: Run Batch Complete (Retro Complete)
     domain in the Core Payroll functional area.
  8. (Optional) Select the workers whose results you want to cancel and click
    Cancel
    .
    Ensure that no on-cycle payroll processes are running for any pay groups. When you cancel retro results for subsets of workers, Workday:
    • Doesn't reset the workers' retro pay calculation status to
      Not Yet Started
      . Workday resets that status only when you use the
      Run Retro Pay Cancel
       task.
    • Updates the workers' No Retro Processing Prior To (NRPPT) date to the value before you ran retro.
    When you rerun retro, Workday processes the supported events again.
    Security:
    Process: Run Batch Cancel (Retro Cancel)
     domain in the Core Payroll functional area.
  9. Workday pulls retro differences into the workers' current payroll run. You can view the processed differences on the
    Gross to Net
     and
    Additional Pay Components
     tabs of the
    View Payroll Result
     report on the worker profile. These differences are from recalculated prior periods.
  10. (Optional for Payroll for Canada, the UK, and the U.S.) Run the
    Reversal Results with Retro
     report to identify retro differences that Workday calculates but doesn't forward to the workers' on-cycle payroll because of reversals.
In January, the
Payroll Changes Unprocessed for a Retro Run
 report identifies a compensation change for Dan Johnson as
Unprocessed
. You determine that he had a retroactive salary increase of 200 per month, effective January 1, entered on February 15. You also learn that his NRPPT date is February 1.
Because the effective date of the change is before his NRPPT date, the
Run Retro Pay Calculation
 task only recalculates results for February.
To pay Dan the 200 owed for January, you enter pay input for the current open period.
January
February 1
February 15
February
March
Base pay
3,000
3,200
3,200
In Workday
Change NRPPT date.
Enter retroactive salary increase for 200, effective January 1.
Run report, which identifies unprocessed change: 200 for January.
Retro pay
Pay input for 200.
Total
3,000
3,200
3,400
Complete the retro pay calculation for the pay group and run payroll.