How To Fix HRPAYDESV033 - Amount of wage type &1 in period &2 is negative

HRPAYDESV033 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: HRPAYDESV - Error Messages Germany Payroll, Social Insurance

• Message number: 033

• Message text: Amount of wage type &1 in period &2 is negative

What causes this issue?

Wage type &V1& contains information about the accrual amount of value
credit or about the amount of the release from work.
The system balances the value credit accrual and the release. If the
value credit is reduced, a release phase is determined; otherwise a work
phase is determined.
A prerequisite for this is that the specified amounts are positive,
however.
The payroll results for period &V2& in period &V3& contain wage type
&V1& with a negative amount.

System Response

The personnel number is rejected.

How to fix this error?

You must determine positive amounts for the wage type.

Procedure for System Administrators

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

Error message extract from SAP system. Copyright SAP SE.

HRPAYDESV033 - Details

• The SAP error message HRPAYDESV033 indicates that there is a negative amount for a specific wage type in a given period. This error typically arises during payroll processing when the system encounters a wage type that should not have a negative value, such as earnings or deductions that are expected to be positive.
  
  Cause:
  
  Incorrect Data Entry: A manual entry error may have led to a negative value being assigned to a wage type.
  Payroll 
  Configuration Issues: The wage type may be incorrectly configured in the payroll schema or in the wage type characteristics.
  Retroactive Accounting: If there are retroactive changes in payroll, it might lead to negative amounts if not handled correctly.
  Deductions Exceeding Earnings: In some cases, deductions may exceed the earnings for a specific period, leading to a negative value.
  Incorrect Time Evaluation: If the time evaluation process has not been executed correctly, it may result in incorrect wage type amounts.
  
  
  Solution:
  
  Review Wage Type