Building Pay Calendars

PeopleSoft Payroll uses a pay calendar to determine when employees are paid. If your organization has produced a payroll, you've already set up a table with pay calendar information for the current year.

Even if you do not use Payroll, PeopleSoft Benefits Administration needs the pay calendar information to calculate flexible credits and benefit costs by participant pay frequency. It also uses the pay calendars to calculate coverage and deduction begin and end dates.

Before you start open enrollment, pay calendars must be set up for an entirely new plan year, and must include each pay group. If you decide to run Event Maintenance, set up pay calendars for the specific event processing period. As you near the end of the year, set up next year's calendar well in advance to avoid waiting periods or date rules that can cause coverage or deduction begin dates to be calculated in the future.