Pay Current is a type of pay schedule in which an employee’s paycheck is processed before the pay period is completed, in order to pay employees on the last day of the period. Due to the nature of payroll processing, in order to pay an employee on the final Friday of the pay period, the paycheck must be processed prior to that Friday. Management may estimate and pay the employee based on the number of hours they are scheduled to work between the processing date and the end of the pay period/pay date. If the employee works different hours than their projected hours, or projections are not used, the employer makes the necessary adjustment, to add or subtract pay, in the next paycheck.

There are two setups for pay current clients, projected hours and non-projected hours. Non-projected hours is used when employers pay employees only up to the time they have worked within the current period (even though the period has not ended yet), whereas, projected hours will auto-populate scheduled regular hours on an employee’s timesheet based on their assigned schedule.  This means that employers will pay up to the time they have worked within the current period plus their remaining scheduled hours.