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    • Overview
    • Introduction
    • Unified API
    • Linked Account
    • Merge Link
    • Use cases
      • Analyze compensation
      • Analyze payroll runs
      • Analyze project status
      • Analyze spend
      • Assign trainings
      • Auto provision
      • Automate gifts
      • Candidate journey recruiters
      • Candidate journey
      • Candidate matchmaking
      • Career development
      • Collect security evidence
      • Contact information
      • Create invoices
      • Create purchase orders
      • Customer payment reconciliation
      • Deal notifications
      • Employee analysis (GRC)
      • Enrich compliance data
      • Financial analysis
      • Forecast revenue
      • Headcount planning
      • Historical payroll
      • Internal database
      • Onboard and offboard
      • Opportunity recommendations
      • Org chart
      • Sales rep performance
      • Share specific documents
      • Source candidates
      • Source leads
      • Surface open jobs
      • Surface screening questions
      • Sync customers or suppliers
      • Sync expenses
      • Talent pool visibility
      • Track compliance
      • Track contracts
      • Track security controls
      • Train AI accounting
      • Train AI ATS
      • Train AI CRM
      • Train AI HRIS
      • Train AI ticketing
      • Upload contracts file
      • Vendor reconciliation
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Historic payroll

Read historic payroll data from employees

Key models and fields

EmployeesGET
name
EmploymentsGET
pay_rate
GroupsGET
name

Key features

  • Field Mappings

Typical sync frequency
Monthly

Industries

Compensation Management
Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)
Spend Management
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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.

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