How To Fix HRPAYNA003 - This wage type & is a balance wage type. Please see long text for detail.

HRPAYNA003 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: HRPAYNA - Payroll North america messages

• Message number: 003

• Message text: This wage type & is a balance wage type. Please see long text for detail.

What causes this issue?

The wage type & is a balance wage type and it did not exist in
the previous pay period. This means that you will start a new balance
processing in this adjustment.

System Response

Nothing.

How to fix this error?

Make sure all parts of a balance processing are entered here in this
adjustment, like a combination of balance, deduction and total wage
types. Keep in mind that the amounts entered on the infotype with
balance processing wage types are the adjustment amounts to the
respective wage types in the entire balance processing, not the
override amounts to these wage types.

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.

HRPAYNA003 - Details

• The SAP error message HRPAYNA003 indicates that a specific wage type is classified as a balance wage type. This means that the wage type is not intended to be processed in the same way as regular wage types, and it typically serves a specific purpose, such as accumulating balances for reporting or calculation purposes.
  
  Cause:
  The error occurs when there is an attempt to process or post a wage type that is defined as a balance wage type in the SAP system. This can happen in various scenarios, such as during payroll processing, when trying to enter or modify wage types in infotypes, or when generating reports.
  
  Solution:
  To resolve this error, you can take the following steps:
  
  
  Check Wage Type Configuration:
  
  Go to the transaction code PE01 (Wage Type Maintenance) or V_T512W (Wage Type Characteristics) to review the configuration of the wage type in question.
  Ensure that the wage type is correctly defined and that it