Concept: Payroll Data Insights Skill

The Payroll Data Insights skill of the Payroll agent enables you to access payroll knowledge to answer your questions. You can ask questions and receive answers on the data that you need in a simple conversational manner. This reduces your manual effort and the time you spend on generating reports, potentially eliminating the need for creating some custom reports by providing you with the data directly.

Example: For an audit, a payroll administrator needs a specific data point. Instead of running multiple reports, they can ask a question in natural language, such as, "

Show me every pay group in the system that’s on a weekly or bi-weekly basis.

" They can also ask follow-up questions such as “

Show me every worker in [returned in weekly pay group1] that made more than $4000 gross for the last completed pay period

." The agent then provides the data on screen. It includes insights and analysis in natural language, along with displaying the data in an intuitive manner.

Once you’ve set up the Payroll agent and you're in the assigned security group, you can then click the speech bubble from the top navigation bar to launch Workday Chat.

Currently, the Payroll Data Insights skill can answer these type of questions:

Question Types	Examples
Averages	What was the average gross pay for workers in [pay group] over the last 3 periods?
Basic Worker Pay	What was [worker names] [gross or net pay] last period?
Basic Pay Group Pay	Show me every worker in [pay group] that made more than [amount] in [month]?
Basic Pay Group Information	Which pay groups are paid on a monthly schedule?
Earning or Deduction Inclusion	List all the earnings and deductions with current values.
Earning or Deduction Exclusion	Which workers in [pay group] did not have [some earning/deduction] in their last period?
Period Comparison	Compare the gross pay of [pay group name] last Q1 2025 vs Q1 2026.