Payroll
Proration
Adjusting pay for a partial period worked.
Proration calculates the correct pay for an employee who only worked part of a pay period, say a mid-month joiner, a leaver or someone on unpaid leave, by apportioning their salary across the days actually worked.
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Help & how-to
See it in practice
The payroll run lifecycle, explained
Run, review, approve and lock, pay, remit, then roll over. The same flow every month.
Read the variance report
Compare this run to last period and catch a silently-wrong payroll before you approve.
Set up salary structures & pay elements
Define what people earn once, assign it in bulk, and override per employee where needed.
See it applied to real payroll
Vintage People applies these statutory rules on every run, with a full audit trail.