The Payroll Wage & Hour Procedures Manual

Payroll Administrators must be able to:

• Properly "classify" workers
• Apply the various exemptions
• Calculate gross pay and properly make deductions
• Correctly identify, pay, and withhold taxes for employees
• Administer deferred compensation, cafeteria plan, sick pay, and other compensation
• Handle stock options, expense reimbursements, relocation, and other "expenses"
• Follow the proper policies, procedures, and documentation requirements for garnishments and levies
• Properly complete and file all required reporting requirements
• Correctly complete year-end requirements and establish year-beginning requirements
• Implement and maintain fraud, audit, disaster recovery, and record retention processes and procedures

Time clocks, time sheets, and electronic methods are a couple ways to track hours worked.

Maintaining accurate payroll records, such as hours worked, pay, and tips and tax amounts, obeying federal and state rules, and submitting required reports on a timely basis.

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Payroll is much more than just handing out paychecks, and includes a variety of responsibilities such as handling garnishments, travel pay, multi-state taxation, unclaimed paychecks, and much more in a timely and accurate fashion.

While many payroll-related regulations are federally-governed, there also are many state requirements, including those for handling garnishment, final paychecks, and unclaimed paychecks. Each state's requirements differ in the details, so be sure to check your state's requirements by clicking the applicable link(s) at the bottom of this page.

In addition to ensuring that employees are paid correctly and on time, "Payroll" has numerous time and reporting requirements. The primary payroll areas include paychecks, reporting, operations, and management.