How To Fix 4B066 - Please specify date for basic salary of ex-employees

4B066 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: 4B - Message Class for Philippines

• Message number: 066

• Message text: Please specify date for basic salary of ex-employees

What causes this issue?

You have chosen to calculate 13th month pay based on a terminated
employee's basic salary on a specified date, but you have not entered
the relevant date.

System Response

The system issues an error message and will not allow you to continue with this transaction until the error is resolved.

How to fix this error?

Enter the appropriate date. This enables the system to retrieve all the
wage types comprising the terminated employee's basic salary and valid
at the date you entered. The base amount retrieved will be used to
calculate the employee's 13th month pay.

Procedure for System Administrators

Error message extract from SAP system. Copyright SAP SE.

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message 4B066 - Please specify date for basic salary of ex-employees ?

  The SAP error message 4B066 ("Please specify date for basic salary of ex-employees") typically occurs in the context of payroll processing, particularly when dealing with ex-employees in the SAP Human Capital Management (HCM) module. This error indicates that the system requires a specific date to process the basic salary for an employee who is no longer with the company.
  
  Cause:
  
  Missing Date Information: The error usually arises when the payroll process is trying to calculate or retrieve salary information for an ex-employee, but the required date (such as the last working day or the date of termination) is not specified in the system.
  Incorrect Configuration: There may be issues with the configuration of the payroll schema or the infotype records for the ex-employee.
  Data Entry Errors: The date may not have been entered correctly in the employee's master data or payroll records.
  
  
  Solution:
  
  
  Specify the Date: 
  
  Go to the employee's master data (using transaction code PA30)