Concept: Pay Groups and Pay Run Groups

Pay groups identify:

Who to pay.
How often to pay.
Which payments to process.

In addition, pay groups:

Can define eligibility for earnings, deductions, and other pay components. Example: Make an earning available to workers in selected pay groups.
Are associated with 1 country, which controls the default currency.
Are an organization type, like a company or supervisory organization. To control who can set up and run payroll and which employees the role can access, secure them to organization roles.
One or more Payroll Partners can manage the payroll process for a pay group. The same partner can be responsible for multiple pay groups.
The Payroll Administrator role can access all pay groups in an organization. Payroll Partners can access only the pay groups they're assigned to.

Pay group members:

Must share a processing schedule, such as weekly or monthly.
Can belong to different divisions, departments, companies, or supervisory organizations. Example: You can create pay groups for exempt and nonexempt workers across companies.
Can belong to only 1 pay group, unless they have multiple jobs or are on international assignment from a non-Workday payroll system. For international assignment, they can have an external pay group for their home country and a pay group for the international assignment.

A pay run group identifies a set of pay groups with selected run categories that you can process and report on together. Examples: Regular monthly, executive monthly, and other monthly pay groups. When you calculate payroll or run reports, you can select the pay run group instead of the individual pay groups. To define pay run groups, use the

Create Pay Run Group

task.