Payroll Manager's Report
Payroll Manager’s Report, a monthly publication, is written for payroll practitioners working with small and large employers. It provides how-to information on managing a payroll department cost effectively and service-efficiently. Analysis includes the latest benchmarks on payroll metrics, technology updates and software evaluations, latest trends in training staff, and cutting-edge counsel on developing leadership skills. In addition to original research on payroll practitioner’s career development and salary, PMR conducts a biennial Payroll Outsourcing Survey, rating the nation’s leading payroll processing providers. PMR also offers special reports on global payroll challenges and solutions.
August 2007 - Table of Contents
In recent years, increasing numbers of payroll departments have adopted payroll cards as yet another tool—along with direct deposit—to drive down operating costs. Reducing costs was but one of the benefits of paycards discussed by the American Payroll Association’s Scott Mezistrano, CPP, senior manager, and William Dunn, CPP, manager, government relations, at the APA’s 25th Annual Congress.
We’ve probably all heard someone say, "I’ll take this all the way to the Supreme Court if I have to!" Most people don’t realize that the U.S. Supreme Court can pick and choose which cases to hear. In fact, it usually limits the cases it will hear to those with significant impact beyond the parties involved. That was the situation in Long Island Care At Home, Ltd., et al. v. Coke, No. 06-592 (decided June 11, 2007).
"Leaders are made based upon the circumstances of their life and how they handle challenges." This is an observation shared with PMR by Vicki Majors, former president of the American Payroll Association. "Challenges create leaders," she concludes. However, the prerequisite skills—vision, teambuilding, talent development, for example—to meet the challenges of the 21st century payroll department may be lacking, or worst still, undervalued.
Federal Hourly Minimum Wage Increase Affects State Rates
The number of states with an hourly minimum wage higher than the federal level will drop to just about a dozen by September 2009, from 30 states currently, because of the federal minimum wage increase to $7.25 per hour from $5.15 per hour, according to the Economic Policy Institute. …
A workshop staple at each American Payroll Association Annual Congress, "What’s New at the IRS" once again drew a crowd of curious payroll professionals. While there was not a lot of new information to share with attendees, IRS officials capitalized on the opportunity to reiterate important announcements made earlier in the year and to explain upcoming changes in tax forms.
Intermediate Payroll Concepts, Seattle, Aug. 6-7, Boston, Sept. 27-28; San Jose, Nov.1-2. Contact: American Payroll Association, www.americanpayroll.org
The Ultimate Course in Payroll Management, Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 7; Fayetteville, Ark., Aug. 8; Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 9; St. Louis, Aug. 10; Atlantic City, Aug. 13; King of Prussia, Pa., Aug. 14; Greensburg, Pa., Aug. 15; Pittsburgh, Aug. 16; Savannah, Sept. 11; Gainesville, Ga., Sept. 12; Atlanta, Sept. 13; Tampa, Sept. 18; West Palm Beach, Sept. 19;…
Exclusive PMR Survey: Are Payroll Professionals Getting Competitive Benefits Packages? Would Shared Services Work in Your Company? First Time Managers: What Payroll Practitioners Should Know RFPs: Do’s and Don’ts for Payroll Professionals What’s New in Payroll Technology? Tips on Staying in Compliance With Executive Compensation…
Is It Time For an Employee Portal at Your Company?
An employee portal allows payroll managers to more easily communicate with employees by posting material that must be disseminated to company employees. Portals also help to eliminate the need for printing and e-mailing, faxing, or otherwise distributing hard copies of the information. These virtues of employee portals were touted by Pedro W. Cutino Jr. and David Gribble, presenters at the American Payroll Association’s 25th Annual Congress. …
Challenge: Change is constant among the compliance procedures payroll professionals execute. The stress of staying current with those changes is heightened by departmental changes, such as new technology and outsourcing or insourcing payroll functions, or organizational changes, such as moving to a shared services environment.
When PMR initiated its first Career Assessment Survey in 1996 (which included compensation data), the earnings of female payroll professionals averaged 70% of their male colleagues’. While the numbers improved with the findings of our 2007 Payroll Compensation Survey, putting female earnings at 75% of their male colleagues’, this is still less than the 79% reported in PMR’s 2001 survey and the current national average of 81% reported by the Department of Labor in 2006.
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