Governing Payroll Class

Select a governing workers compensation class from payroll totals.

Description

A governing-payroll-class selector chooses the largest supplied payroll and compares it with the runner-up.

A governing-payroll-class selector chooses the largest supplied payroll and compares it with the runner-up. A required margin can reject an ambiguous result.^[1]

Select a governing workers compensation class from payroll totals.

When to use Governing Payroll Class

Use this tool to select a governing workers compensation class from payroll totals.

Prepare the supplied policy terms, dates, assumptions or recorded indicators requested. Keep monetary amounts on one currency basis and select the applicable thresholds separately.

How to use Governing Payroll Class and understand its results

Prepare the supplied policy terms, dates, assumptions or recorded indicators requested. Keep monetary amounts on one currency basis and select the applicable thresholds separately.
Enter classCodes, classPayrolls, minimumPayrollDifference using the field table and calculation rules, then run the tool.
Read governingClassCode, governingClassPayroll, secondHighestPayroll, payrollMargin. The explanation below defines the units, signs, ordering and any flags or placeholder values.
If the tool reports an input issue, correct the values and run it again. Apply the stated assumptions when interpreting a successfully returned result.

Input field	Meaning	Value type; see rules below	Requirement
classCodes	Workers compensation class codes	list of string	Required
classPayrolls	Payroll by class	list of number	Required
minimumPayrollDifference	Minimum governing-class difference	number; minimum: 0	Required

Enter nonempty aligned class strings and nonnegative payrolls with nonnegative minimum difference. Sort descending, preserve input order for ties and return leading raw code/payroll, runner-up and margin. A single class has runner-up zero; a tie passes when minimum is zero.

margin=largestPayroll−runnerUp; require margin≥minimum

Units, indexing, boundary conditions and exceptional cases are defined in the calculation rules above.

Output field	Meaning	Value type
governingClassCode	Governing class code	string
governingClassPayroll	Governing class payroll	number; minimum: 0
secondHighestPayroll	Second-highest payroll	number; minimum: 0
payrollMargin	Governing payroll margin	number; minimum: 0

json

{
  "input": {
    "classCodes": [
      "A",
      "B",
      "C"
    ],
    "classPayrolls": [
      100,
      300,
      150
    ],
    "minimumPayrollDifference": 50
  },
  "output": {
    "governingClassCode": "B",
    "governingClassPayroll": 300,
    "secondHighestPayroll": 150,
    "payrollMargin": 150
  }
}

Limitations and assumptions

Blank and duplicate codes are accepted and not aggregated. No workers-compensation classification rules, excluded classes or job duties are interpreted.

Numeric inputs must be finite. Follow the calculation-specific rules for overflow, underflow and exceptional cases. Lists are limited to 100,000 entries; the rules above may require smaller limits. Missing required fields, extra fields, wrong value types and violations of the calculation rules are input errors.

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References

Governing Payroll Class — tool.io

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