HR glossary · Pay and payroll
Salary structure
The set of rules that builds a payslip from the basic wage.
A salary structure defines how a payslip is built: the basic wage, each allowance, each deduction and the formula behind every line. Different groups of employees can follow different structures.
In practice
In Odoo, a salary structure is linked to the employee's contract, so changing a rule in one place updates every payslip that uses it.
See how these work together in one system.