Payroll management method and apparatus

• US 8,260,703 B2
• Filed: 01/31/2006
• Issued: 09/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Third Millennium Management Pty Limited
• Original Assignee: Third Millennium Management Pty Limited
• Inventors: Bode, Russell
• Primary Examiner(s): Jeanty, Romain
• Application Number:
  US11/342,612
• Publication Number:
  US 20060122878A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,408 Days
• Field of Search: 705/39
• US Class Current: 705/39
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06375 Prediction of business process outcome or impact based on a proposed change
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1057 Benefits or employee welfare, e.g. insurance, holiday or retirement packages
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 1/10 together with the recording, indicating or registering of other data, e.g. of signs of identity

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for costing a roster. The method includes preparing a roster in a roster preparing means of the apparatus, said roster comprising a work schedule or list of duties for one or more work periods, each work period being populated by one or more workers, providing award information in a database of the apparatus for calculating a payroll for each of said workers in said roster, and calculating a roster wage cost in a processing means of the apparatus that would result from implementation of said roster, based on said roster and said award information. A respective pay-rate for a respective worker in the database of award information may depend on the work period populated by said respective worker, and a respective worker may be rostered in more than one of said work periods.

Claims

1. A method for use in an apparatus for costing a roster, the method comprising:

preparing a roster and storing the roster in the apparatus, said roster comprising a work schedule or list of duties for one or more work periods, each work period being populated by one or more workers;

providing award information in a database of the apparatus for each worker in the roster, said award information comprising a respective pay-rate for each worker for calculating a payroll for each of said workers in said roster; and

calculating a roster wage cost in a processor of the apparatus that would result from implementation of said roster, based on said roster and said award information,

wherein the roster wage cost is determined based on the roster and not the actual work performed or duties completed by one or more workers, and

wherein the respective pay-rate for a respective worker in the database of award information depends on the work period populated by said respective worker, and a respective worker may be rostered in more than one of said work periods.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the pay-rate information is based on the work period populated by the respective worker.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the roster wage cost represents the cost to an employer for implementing the roster.

4. An apparatus for costing a roster, comprising:

a roster stored in memory, said roster comprising a work schedule or list of duties for one or more work periods, each work period being populated by one or more workers;

an electronic database of award information for calculating a payroll for each of said workers in said roster; and

a processor for calculating a roster wage cost that would result from implementation of said roster, based on said roster and said award information;

wherein the roster wage cost is determined based on the roster and not the actual work performed or duties completed by one or more workers, and

wherein a respective pay-rate for a respective worker being rostered depends on the work period populated by said respective worker, and a respective worker may be rostered in more than one of said work periods.

5. An article of manufacture or computer program product, comprising executable instructions or software for performing a method of costing a roster when said product is run on a computer, said method comprising:

preparing a roster comprising a work schedule or list of duties for one or more work periods, each work period being populated by one or more workers;

providing award information in a database for calculating a payroll for each of said workers in said roster, said award information comprising a respective pay-rate for each worker; and

calculating a roster wage cost that would result from implementation of said roster, based on said roster and said award information;

wherein the roster wage cost is determined based on the roster and not the actual work performed or duties completed by one or more workers, and

wherein the respective pay-rate for a respective worker in the database of award information depends on the work period populated by said respective worker, and a respective worker may be rostered in more than one of said work periods.

6. An article of manufacture or computer program product imbedded or permanently stored on a computer readable medium, comprising executable instructions or a computer readable program for causing a computer to perform a method of costing a roster, wherein said method comprising:

preparing a roster comprising a work schedule or list of duties for one or more work periods, each work period being populated by one or more workers;

providing award information in a database for calculating a payroll for each of said workers in said roster, said award information comprising a respective pay-rate for each worker; and

calculating a roster wage cost that would result from implementation of said roster, based on said roster and said award information;

wherein the roster wage cost is determined based on the roster and not the actual work performed or duties completed by one or more workers, and

wherein a respective pay-rate for a respective worker in the database of award information depends on the work period populated by said respective worker, and a respective worker may be rostered in more than one of said work periods.

9. The article of manufacture of claim 6, wherein the roster wage cost is implemented based on the roster and the award information and not on actual work performed or duties completed by one or more workers.

7. A computer readable medium, having executable instructions or software, imbedded or permanently stored that, when executed by a computer or processor of a computer, cause the computer or processor of the computer to perform a method of costing a roster, said method comprising:

preparing a roster comprising a work schedule or list of duties for one or more work periods, each work period being populated by one or more workers;

providing award information in a database for calculating a payroll for each of said workers in said roster, said award information comprising a respective pay-rate for each worker; and

calculating a roster wage cost that would result from implementation of said roster, based on said roster and said award information;

wherein the roster wage cost is determined based on the roster and not the actual work performed or duties completed by one or more workers, and

wherein a respective pay-rate for a respective worker in the database of award information depends on the work period populated by said respective worker, and a respective worker may be rostered in more than one of said work periods.

8. The computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein the roster wage cost is implemented based on the roster and the award information and not on actual work performed or duties completed by one or more workers.