Local HR can verify the accuracy of an employee’s pay each pay period after the payroll run is complete by running the Gross Pay Report in Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI).
Verify Employee Pay
Before You Start
You must have authorization to access and run Human Resource OBI reports.
- Go to OBI Reporting
- Enter SUNet ID and password, if prompted
- Select Catalog from the main tool bar at the top
- Select Shared Folders from the Folders pane on the left
- Select HCM
- Select Reports
- Select Gross Pay from the center menu
The report parameters default to processing by Dept Hierarchy.
- Select Name or Empl ID to run the report for a specific employee
- Enter information in the following fields
- Pay End Date: Begin - Enter the last day of the pay period for the starting period of the report
- Pay End Date: End - Enter the last day of the pay period for the last period of the report
- When running the report for a single pay period, the Begin and End values will be the same
- Department Hierarchy
- Select Apply to run the report
Select the tabs to review results for the following report summaries
Select the Refresh icon to view results as you move to each tab.
- Summary by Employee - a pivot table of all employee earnings by earn code
- Name Report - earnings by employee name, formatted for printing or exporting as a PDF
- Earnings Element Report - pay by element, formatted for printing or exporting as a PDF
- Paper Pay Stub Option Report - employees who have elected a paper pay statement
- Bonus Report - bonus payments, formatted for printing or exporting as a PDF
- Full Results/Gross Pay- all payments, formatted for printing or exporting as a PDF
- Full Results/Paycheck Data - paycheck number for each payment, formatted for printing or exporting as a PDF
The Gross Pay Report contains confidential salary information. Take appropriate precautions when printing or downloading any of this report.
- Select the Download icon in the menu bar just above the report
- From the pull-down menu, select Excel (*.xlsx)
- Select the location to save the report
- Select Save to download the report
What Happens Next?
- If an employee under- or overpayment is identified, review Retroactive Pay Calculations in Topic Overview: Paycheck Administration to determine the next steps.
- The Graduate Financial Support (GFS) system is used to manage pay for graduate research and teaching assistantships and postdoc salary and fellowship payments. GFS-specific versions of the Gross Pay Report are available on the Graduate Financial Support catalog folders in OBI.
- Historic Gross Pay reporting for periods prior to the Sequoia implementation in July 2026 is available via the HR-Payroll-Benefits Systems > Payroll Information catalog folder in OBI
- Additional reports are available in OBI Payroll and Labor Management Dashboard to refine the results of Gross Pay Reports