Historic payroll

Read historic payroll data from employees

1. Sync employee data

Sync Employees data following Onboard use case workflow. Make sure your user has access to the Employments model, as this holds information related to historical pay.

Products backend

2. Pull employee and employment data

In your backend, pull the GET /Employees Object, as well as the related Employments Object.

To access a given Employee’s current and historical employments, use the employments array on Employees.

Backend interact with Merge

3. Access historic payroll information

Access historic payroll information from the Employments object:

  • Use the effective_date field to see past pay periods, and filter by time.
  • Use the pay_rate field to access the pay for a given Employment.

Please note: When there is a change in pay or title, third-party platforms that track historical data will create new Employment objects, while platforms that don’t track historical data will update existing records.

Backend interact with Merge

4. Surface information to users

Generate UI, functionality, or workflow that surfaces this information, or an analysis of this information, based on your app’s functionality.

Products frontend
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