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Off-Cycle Payroll, in plain English.
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An off-cycle payroll is any pay run processed outside the regular schedule, used for termination pay, a missed or incorrect payment, a bonus paid separately, or a retroactive correction.
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It carries the same statutory obligations as a scheduled run, including deductions, remittance, and year-to-date impact. Workzoom processes off-cycle runs against the same employee record so year-to-date figures stay correct.
How Off-Cycle Payroll works.
An off-cycle run is a full payroll, not a manual cheque. Statutory contributions still apply, ceilings still track year-to-date, and the amounts still flow to remittance and year-end reporting. The complication is that some deductions are scheduled per pay period rather than per dollar, such as fixed benefit premiums, so processing an extra run can double-deduct unless those are suppressed deliberately. Termination runs add final vacation payout and any outstanding entitlements to the same calculation.
Where Off-Cycle Payroll goes wrong.
- Cutting a manual cheque outside the system is the habit that causes the damage, because year-to-date totals, statutory ceilings, and year-end forms never learn about it.
- Reconciliation then happens in January against a figure nobody can trace.
- The second trap is leaving period-based deductions active on an extra run and taking a full month of benefit premiums twice.
- 2000 Running payroll since Workzoom has run Canadian payroll for 25+ years.
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- SOC 2-aligned controls Encrypted at rest, role-based access, immutable audit logs.
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How Off-Cycle Payroll runs on Workzoom.
Off-Cycle Payroll is part of the Workzoom Payroll Suite. Workzoom runs HR, workforce, and talent on a single employee record across ten countries: Canada, the United States, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, and the United Kingdom. Full gross-to-net payroll runs live in Canada, the United States, and the Bahamas. Pricing starts at $4 per employee per suite per month.
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