# Payroll Handoff

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Payroll that clears first time — exceptions resolved before money moves.

Nothing erodes payroll trust like a corrected paycheck two cycles later. Payroll Handoff refuses to emit until every exception resolves: missing punches chased, overtime approved, allocations verified. What crosses into accounting is certified — and revalidation markers handle the rare upstream correction cleanly.

## Handoff stages

Each stage below gates the next — uncertified time never reaches accounting.

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### Validate

Timecards check completeness: every punch present, exceptions resolved, overtime approved. Gaps route to supervisors with the missing piece named.

### Allocate

Validated hours split across work orders, projects, grants, and cost centers with funding-source edges preserved for sponsor and audit review.

### Emit

Certified payroll-input events carry hours, rates context, and cost rollup to finance with revalidation markers, so upstream corrections reprocess cleanly.

## Handoff guarantees

- **Certified inputs only:** Exceptions and approvals resolved before emission; estimates never cross
- **Cost rollup attached:** Labor cost by work order, project, and cost center on every event
- **Revalidation markers:** Upstream corrections propagate with downstream reprocessing tracked
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## Handoff by industry

Payroll inputs bend per industry — same certification discipline, different pay rules.

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### Construction

Prevailing-wage determinations per jurisdiction with fringe handling and certified reports assembled from job-costed hours.

### Healthcare

Differentials, callback, and float premiums resolved per clinician with cost following assignments across units.

### Education

Grant-funded versus general allocations split automatically with effort certification evidence for sponsors.

## Payroll Handoff questions

### Section 1

What blocks a payroll handoff?

Unresolved attendance exceptions, missing approvals, or uncertified overtime. The timecard stays open with the gap identified rather than estimating hours into payroll.

### Section 2

How are grant-funded positions handled?

Funding source rides the assignment edge, so allocation splits grant-funded and general time automatically with the evidence payroll and sponsors require.

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What if a correction arrives after payroll ran?

Revalidation markers reprocess the affected events with lineage to the original handoff. Corrections post as adjustments citing the cause — never silent edits to closed pay.

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value: The handoff is a contract: certified events in, accounted pay out, with revalidation markers when upstream facts change. Overtime, exceptions, and approvals resolve before anything crosses into accounting.

## Section 6

Payroll-input validation with exception gates

## Section 7

Labor-cost rollup by work order, project, and cost center

## Section 8

Overtime and premium-time certification

## Section 9

Grant-funded versus general position allocation

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