What is a pay code?

A pay code is an account in payroll that records hours worked for an activity. Use Pay Codes to add, edit, and delete pay codes. When you make changes to pay codes that have been created in Organization > Pay Codes the changes have been made on the Application Level.

On the other hand, when you make changes to pay codes on the Employee Level, the changes will only affect the employee. None of the changes that you make on the Employee Level will affect the pay code on the Application Level.