As a practitioner, you can view and edit the wage rate programs defined for your company.

  1. From the Time & Attendance menu, select Setup.

    Note: If the Setup option is not visible, make sure that you have selected Practitioner in the Role Selector.

  2. Under the Labor Charge Fields heading, click the Wage Rate Programs link. The Wage Rate Programs page opens and displays a list of any already defined wage rate programs.

  3. To view more details about a particular wage rate program, click the wage rate program ID. An individual Wage Rate Program page opens and displays the program's properties, including a table of the rates defined for the program.

  4. If the description of the wage rate program needs to be changed, edit the values in the Description text box for each language supported by your company.

  5. If you want to change the option that describes how the Time & Attendance module determines whether to use the rates in the wage rate program or an employee's base rate, select a different option in the Rate Comparison Options section. The available options are:

      • Do Not Compare to Base Rate - The wage rage program always takes precedence over the employee's base rate, regardless of the actual rates defined for each.

      • Always Higher of Wage Rate and Base Rate - Compares the rate determined by the wage rate program to the employee's base rate and uses whichever is higher. If no wage rate definition matches the labor charge values for the time pair, the employee's base rate is used.

      • Always Lower of Wage Rate and Base Rate - Compares the rate determined by the wage rate program to the employee's base rate and uses whichever is lower. If no wage rate definition matches the labor charge values for the time pair, the employee's base rate is used.

  6. Check or uncheck the Do not apply Wage Rates to employee's home labor charge values box as appropriate. If this option is checked, the wage rate program is not applied to employees when they work in their home departments, jobs, etc. If you want the wage rate program to be applied even when employees are working in their home labor charge values, uncheck this box.

  7. Edit the Effective Date, Type, and Amount fields as appropriate in the rate table and then click the Submit button.

    Notes:
    You can edit the effective date, type, and amount of existing rates, but you cannot change their labor charge value combinations. If you need to change a labor charge combination, delete the existing rate and then create a new one with the combination you want, as described below.

    You can use the search filter at the top of the wage rate table to search for rates by labor charge value. To perform a search, use the Lookup button in each labor charge column (for example, Department, Job, and Task) to select the specific labor charge values you are searching for, and then click the Search button. The list refreshes and displays any rates that have already been defined for the specific combination of labor charge values you selected. To return to a view of all of the defined rates, delete the values in all of the fields in the filter row and then click the Search button again.

  8. If you want to delete any of the existing rate definitions, check the box in the Delete column for each rate definition you want to delete and then click the Submit button.

    Note: Do not click the Delete button. The Delete button removes the entire Wage Rate Program, not just the selected rates.

  9. If you want to define additional rates, click the Add Definitions link near the bottom of the page. A Wage Rate Program pop-up window opens and displays five blank rows.

    Notes:
    If you have made any edits to existing rates or have marked any rates for deletion, click the Submit button before clicking the Add Definitions link.

    The pop-up window does not display the rates that have already been defined for the wage rate program. It is used only to add more rates. To see the rates that are already defined for the program, resize, minimize, or reposition the pop-up so that you can see the wage rate table at the bottom of the main Wage Rate Program page.

  10. Enter the labor charge values, effective date, rate type, and amount for each new rate you want to add.

    Tips:
    For more detailed information about defining rates, see Creating Wage Rate Programs.


    If you want to create a rate definition that is similar to a rate you have already entered in the pop-up window, click the Copy Row button to copy the existing rate. A new row is added that contains the same values as the copied rate, and you can simply edit the fields that you want to be different.

    If you need more blank rows, click the
    Add more empty rows link at the bottom of the pop-up window.

  11. After you have defined all of the additional wage rates you want to add to the program, click the Submit button in the pop-up window. The window closes and the rates you have just entered are added to the wage rate program and displayed in the table at the bottom of the Wage Rate Program page.

Notes:
If your wage rate program contains multiple wage rate definitions, the following rules are used to determine the order in which they are applied:

Any wage rate that explicitly matches the exact values of a timecard record takes precedence over a rate that uses the "ANY" wildcard.

The wage rate definitions in a single wage rate program are evaluated column by column, from left to right. The rate with the best match in the left-most column takes precedence. If two or more rates have a match in the left-most column, the rate with exact matches in the two left-most columns takes precedence. If two or more rates have matches in the first two columns, the third column is evaluated, and so on. The order of the labor charge columns cannot be reconfigured.

When and how wage rates are applied is affected by how the earnings codes and pay groups used by your company have been configured. For general information about how rates are applied, see Configuring When Rates Are Used. If you have specific questions about how rates are used in your company, consult your system administrator or an ADP Time & Attendance Representative.