I came across a posting on SDN recently with a user confused with PS Grouping and ES Grouping in payroll. This is actually very simple to use.

Personnel Subareas for Primary Wage Type (PS Grouping - table V_001P_K) allows you to give a grouping to the combination of Personnel Area and Personnel Sub Area.

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I was browsing the other day and came across a nice list of commonly used transaction codes for HR.
Master Data PA10 - Personnel filePA20 - Display HR Master DataPA30 - Maintain HR Master DataPA40 - Personnel ActionPA41 - Change Hiring DataPA42 - Fast Data Entry for EventsPRMD - Maintain HR Master DataPRMF - Travel [...]

A few months ago, I had came across a pretty informative Payroll PU12 FAQ. Here are some of the questions and answers:

Why is an OR segment generated when only the name field was changed on the Personal Data infotype 0002?The OR segment containing organizational information is generated if a change is made to the name [...]

This step usually doesn’t happen too often as most company payroll area setup are fairly simple. They have one unified frequency of pay and not too much variation of it. However, there are companies who tends to be complex. Creating a payroll area to match up for each company code they have. So whenever a [...]

For those who don’t know what transaction code PA03 is or does, this is known as the payroll control record. It keep tab of payroll status on the payroll area the employees belong to. On infotype 0001 of every employee, they are tied to a payrol area (Payr. Area). The payroll area determine several things, [...]