End-to-End Payroll Process

Every step from time approval through payment, filings and journal entry. The full sequence, in order.

Payroll Processing Timeline

How long payroll actually takes at your size and complexity, and where the time goes. Benchmarks and the time-back levers.

If you are still on spreadsheets, here is how to set the workbook up so the math holds. And where to be cautious.

Weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly or monthly. How to choose, what state law requires and where cutoffs hit overtime calculations.

The high-impact changes: pre-run validation, source-of-truth time data, exception monitoring and post-run review cadence.

The breakpoint where manual processing stops making sense. Cost, accuracy and time analysis for in-house versus software.

Final checks before payroll runs: totals tie out, exceptions resolved, tax withholding correct and authorization in place.

When you can't wait for the next pay period, off-cycle and retro payroll runs are the answer. How and when to use each.

When payroll runs late, what state law requires, the penalties involved and the immediate communications to workers.

How the punch data gets from the time system to payroll, what mapping is needed and where most operations lose accuracy.

Once headcount, geography and pay rules grow, manual breaks. What enterprise payroll operations look like at 500+ employees.