Review your salary data and preliminary payroll setup – Personio

This article contains tips to ensure you've imported your employees' salary data and set up the preliminary payroll correctly.

Required settings

With Personio, you can store various payroll groups to create separate payroll exports. You can create payroll groups based on any attribute of the List of options type. If you have created payroll groups (for example based on salary type), you must fill out this attribute for all employees. You can find further information on creating a clear payroll preview by defining payroll groups and periods in Configure preliminary payroll settings.
You've included employees' salaries is either in a separate Salary tab, or to the Personal info tab.
- Check under Settings > Payroll > Salary & Payroll if the setting Separate salary tab is active.
- If not, check that the attributes Fixed salary or Base salary, and Hourly salary are in the Personal info tab.
If your company is located in Germany and you’re using the DATEV integration, follow the steps for the DATEV integration setup to ensure that it has been set up correctly.

You've entered a salary for all internal employees (fixed or hourly salary) and it is effective since the hire date.
You've included absence types in the payroll section.
To efficiently check all employee data for completeness, go to Employees > Employee List and create a custom employee list view that contains all the relevant salary attributes. Then check that:
- You've entered all additional types of compensation into the respective employee accounts.
- If you have set a monthly notification for Payroll review, it's active in the Administrators' Personal Settings.

Congratulations 🎉
You are ready to tackle the next module.