Payroll Basic
Taxes & Deductions
Compliance & Laws
Dayforce
Payroll Miscellaneous
100

Refers to total earnings before deductions

What is Gross pay?

100

Tax supporting Social Security & Medicare?

What is FICA?

100

Minimum years payroll records must be kept.

What is three years?

100

Employees with the same frequency of pay periods, and the same due date for approving and committing payroll

What is a pay group?

100

Tax on money earned at work

What are INCOME TAXES?

200

U.S DB payroll frequency.

What is Semi-Monthly?

200

Determines income tax withholding.

What is W-4?

200

Laws governing employee classification.

What is Fair Labor Standards Act?

200

The combination of a specific pay group and pay period in Dayforce

What is pay run?

200

What is the purpose of Form W-2?

Used by employers to report an employee's wages, withheld taxes, and other information to employees, the IRS, and the Social Security Administration each year.

300

Annual form for reporting wages and taxes?

What is a W2?


300

Type of deduction that reduces taxable income.

What are pre-tax deductions?

300

Section of the Internal Revenue Code Regulating Cafeteria Plans

What is section 125?

300

There are 4 main steps of payroll processing -Calculate, Validate and Commit What is the missing step?

What is Lock?


300

What is the difference between exempt and non-exempt employees?

Exempt employees are not entitled to overtime pay if they meet certain criteria; non-exempt employees must be paid overtime for hours worked over 40 in a week.

400

Standard U.S. overtime payrate?

What is 1.5 Times the regular rate?

400
How to arrive at Federal taxable Income

What is Gross + Imputed Income - Pre tax/deferred Deductions?

400

A legal process where an employer, is instructed to withhold a portion of an employee's income to pay off unpaid debts.

What is a garnishment?

400

Used to add one-time earnings or deductions, and to modify earnings, deductions, or taxes that were incorrect or missing in the pay run.

What is Quick Entry?

400

The amount of money you actually receive (after tax withholding and other deductions are taken out of your paycheck) is called your

What is net income?

500

Agency responsible for wage laws?

What is the Department of Labor?

500

Social Security wage limit reset every?

What is calendar year?

500

California employee terminated in the middle of pay period when is final paycheck due?

What is on last day worked?

500

Employee Compensation, Original Hire Date, Termination Date and Pay type data can be found here in Dayforce.

What is Employment Menu?

500

The number of pay checks received by someone who gets paid semi-monthly.

What is 24 ? 

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