Should you use compensation worksheets or are compensation calculations a better fit for your needs? This section will highlight which features are available in each compensation delivery tool.
Compensation Feature
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Compensation Worksheets
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Compensation Calculations
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Salary per Compensation/Payroll Date
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Yes
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Yes
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Family Size per Compensation/Payroll Date
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Yes
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Yes
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Exchange Rates per Compensation/Payroll Date
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Yes
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Yes
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Data Provider Data per Compensation/Payroll Date
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Yes
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Yes
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Custom Calculations per Compensation/Payroll Date
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Yes
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Yes
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Payment Transactions
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Yes
with Total Compensation methodology
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No
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Multiple Payrolls
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Yes
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Yes
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Payroll Calendars/Schedules
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Yes
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No
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Pay Register Collection
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Yes
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No
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Pay Register Audit/Reconciliation
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Yes
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No
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Shadow Payroll
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Yes
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No
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Real Time Shadow Payroll
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Yes
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Yes
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Annual Amounts
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Yes
If # Pay Periods within a Payroll System = 1, or Report annualizes amounts
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Yes
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“Pay Slip” Reporting
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Yes
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No
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Company Compensation Templates
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Yes
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Yes
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Assignment Compensation Templates
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Yes
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No
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Pay Location Specified per Allowance/Line Item
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Yes
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Yes
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Payment Split per Allowance/Line Item
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Yes
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No
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Fixed Amounts in Assignment Home/Host Currency
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Yes
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Yes
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Fixed Amounts in Company Currency
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No
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Yes
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Show Amounts in both Home/Host Currencies
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Yes
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Yes
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Use Data Provider Exchange Rates within Data Provider Data
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Yes
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No
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Use Company/System Exchange Rates
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Yes
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Yes
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One Time Payments Added to Individual Compensation Worksheets/Calculations
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Yes
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No
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Include Data Provider Calculations (AIRINC, ECA, Mercer, ORC)
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Yes
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Yes
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Specify Data Provider Subscription/Version to Use
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Yes
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No
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Include Equus E4C Hypo Tax Calculator
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No
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Yes
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Specify the Salary Min/Max into Calculations
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Yes
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No*
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Specify the Min/Max of Calculated Output Amounts
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Yes
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No*
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Payment Begin/End Dates
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Yes
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No
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Payment Amount Change Thresholds
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Yes
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No
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Primary/Secondary Payroll
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Yes
with Total Compensation methodology
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No
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Home/Host Payroll
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Yes
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Yes
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Amounts in Payroll Currencies
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Yes
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No
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Amounts in Home/Host Currencies
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Yes
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Yes
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Payments in a 3rd Currency
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Yes
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No
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Dictionary of Line Items to Choose From
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Yes
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No
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Ability to Add/Delete Line Items at the Assignment Level
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Yes
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No
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Generate Reports to the Employee from an Individual Compensation Worksheet/Calculation
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Yes
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Yes
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Generate Reports to the Employee in Batch
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Yes
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Yes
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Generate Reports to Payroll from an Individual Compensation Worksheet/Calculation
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Yes
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Yes
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Generate Reports to Payroll in Batch
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Yes
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Yes
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Compensation Worksheet/Calculation Locked Down after Being Reported
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Yes
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No
Not automatically, but can do manually individually
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Retro Compensation Worksheets/Calculations
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Yes
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No
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Show Zero Amounts
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Yes
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Yes
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Report Only Changes Since Last Report
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Yes
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No
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Process Stages/Statuses
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Yes
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No~
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Include/Exclude Assignments in Batch
|
|
Yes
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Run a Batch per Payroll System
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Yes
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No
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Run a Batch per Home/Host Country
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No
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Yes
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Override Family Size for Calculations
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Yes
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No*^
Can do individually, not in batch
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Override Salary for Calculations
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Yes
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Yes
Can do using the Cascading feature or Custom Calculations
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Override Exchange Rate
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Yes
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Yes
Can override at individual level, and not refresh in batch
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Post Assignee Reports to the Employee Portal
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Yes
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Yes
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Post the Payroll Reports to the Payroll Portal
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Yes
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Yes
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Deliver the Assignee Reports via Email
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Yes
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Yes
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Deliver the Payroll Reports via Email
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Yes
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Yes
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Data Feeds (csv, pipe delimited, etc) to Payroll
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Yes
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No
Only supports Production Reports in PDF or Excel
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