Payroll Congress
Education
Congress Workshops
Payroll Congress offers four days of top-rated educational workshops. Choose from a variety workshops, offered in a variety of education tracks, to increase your level of understanding in all areas of payroll and related fields.
Benefits and Compensation
These workshops focus on compliance with benefits and compensation requirements, including the latest developments in fringe benefits, stock options, and nonqualified deferred compensation plans.
Workshops
– Equity Compensation and a Mobile Workforce Abroad
– Imputed Income: What, When, Where, Why, and How
– Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans
– Taxable and Nontaxable Fringe Benefits, Part 1
– Taxable and Nontaxable Fringe Benefits, Part 2
– Taxable and Nontaxable Fringe Benefits, Part 3 – NEW

Global Payroll
These workshops delve into global strategies and success, whether you are processing payroll for one country or multiple regions. Explore a wide spectrum of the payroll function, risks, compliance, and related issues from a global perspective.
Workshops
– Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Ensuring Payroll Continuity in Global Divestiture – NEW
– Compliance in Global Payroll: ROI vs Risk Management – NEW
– Debunking Global Payroll Myths: The Reality of Multi-Country Payroll – NEW
– Deep Dive into Risk & Control in Global Payroll – NEW
– Digital Nomads – Working from Home When Home is in Another Country – NEW
– Embedding Global Payroll into Shared Services Model – NEW
– Employment Standards and Nontaxation Issues in Canadian Payroll
– EOR vs PEO
– Expats and How It Can All Go Horribly Wrong – NEW
– Global Payroll Documentation Inputs/Outputs – NEW
– Global Payroll Structure, Governance and Change – NEW
– Global/Regional Payroll Sourcing Strategy – Vendor Contracting – NEW
– Keeping Payroll Compliant When Using a Global Employer of Record – NEW
– Master Tax Equalization for Payroll
– Navigating Canadian Payrolls: Taxation Challenges and Compliance – NEW
– Payroll Service Delivery Models: What’s the right fit? – NEW
– Powering Up: Navigating the Early Stages of Expansion – NEW
– Strategic Globalization of Your Payroll Organization: Navigating the Complexities of International Expansion – NEW
– Success in Global Payroll Transformation: A Real-Time Cast Study – NEW

Late-breaking Legislative
and Regulatory Updates
These workshops review current and upcoming legislative and regulatory changes at both the federal and state level. These workshops are a must for anyone involved in maintaining compliance within their organization.
Workshops
– Advanced Tax Notice Resolution
– Building Relationships Across HR, Payroll, and Finance
– Certified Payrolls – NEW
– Cross Border Payroll 101
– Domestic Mobility, Part 1
– Domestic Mobility, Part 2
– Employment Law Lessons Learned
– EWA Panel – NEW
– Hot topics for 2025 – NEW
– It’s State and Local Payroll Compliance
– Navigating the Emerging Tax Compliance Changes for Employers – NEW
– Payroll Prospecting Through the Federal Reserve
– Prevailing Wage – NEW
– Social Tax Updates, From Unemployment to Family Leave to Medical Leave – NEW
– Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Plans: A Tax-Efficient Alternative to Lump-Sum Severance Payments – NEW
– The Future is Now: A Conversation with IRS and DOL
– The Three Cs of Child Support – Collaboration, Compliance, and Change
– The Three Ts of Payroll Compliance: Technology, Transparency, and Trends
– Top 10 Wage and Hour Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
– Trends and Insights: Reviewing 2025 State Unemployment Insurance Tax Rates and Looking Ahead to 2026
– What’s New in ACH Payments

Leadership Excellence Series
These workshops present a variety of leadership topics from exploring self-growth as a professional to the retention of top talent. Attend one or all of these six exhilarating sessions designed to inspire and empower you on your leadership journey.
Workshops
– How to Build Confidence and Credibility – NEW
– Leadership Aura: Your Presence Is Your Power – NEW
– Learn How Storytelling Matters for Payroll Professionals – NEW
– Payroll Transformation Mastery – Leadership Starts with You – NEW
– Unlocking Clarity: I Can’t Read Your Mind – NEW

PAYO Tools
Are you interested in getting involved with PayrollOrg and/or expanding your knowledge about our tools and resources? Workshops in this track offer a variety of sessions covering the PAYO Bookshelf, chapters and community, the PayTrain e-Learning program, and volunteer opportunities.
Workshops
– PayrollOrg’s Bookshelf Tutorial
– Paytrain: Payroll Training at Your Command
– Power Up Your Chapter to Increase Chapter Engagement – NEW

Payroll Management
and Operations
These workshops present topics critical to the efficient operation of the payroll process, to help ensure employees are paid accurately and to identify compliance issues and resolve them before your organization is subject to penalties.
Workshops
– Calculating Deceased Wages Correctly
– California Labor Law and Payroll Tax Issues, Part 1
– California Labor Law and Payroll Tax Issues, Part 2
– Cross Border Payroll Risk and Compliance
– Employee Wage Garnishments Beyond Child Support
– Ensuring Payroll Continuity Amid Cyber Disruptions – NEW
– Fair Labor Standards Act
– FLSA: Regular Rate of Pay and Its Complexities
– Gender Pay Reporting and Equality – NEW
– How to Audit Your Payroll Department
– Impact of the W-4 on Paycheck Calculations
– Level Up Your VISA Knowledge – Navigating the Immigration Game – NEW
– Mergers and Acquisitions (SUI)
– Mergers and Acquisitions from a Payroll Perspective – NEW
– Navigating Union Payrolls with Confidence
– Ohio State and Locals – NEW
– Optimizing Payroll Performance Through Continuous Process Improvement – NEW
– Overpayments: What Can We Do?
– Passionate About Internal Controls
– Payroll in New York, Part 1
– Payroll in New York, Part 2 – NEW
– Pennsylvania State and Locals – NEW
– Supplemental Wages Don’t Require Withholding 22% Federal Income Tax!
– Termination Timeliness: Compliance Planning
– The Nuts and Bolts of Child Support
– The Payroll Maverick – A One-Person Team

Payroll Thought Leadership
These workshops focus on learning how to obtain significant return on investment and overcoming industry challenges with specific product solutions. These educational workshops showcase how organizations implemented specific solutions that positively impacted their bottom line.
Workshops
– Move Payroll Forward with AI: Practical Applications and Strategic Opportunities – NEW
– Navigating Global Payroll in an AI World – NEW
– The Future of Earned Wage Access: Compliance, Innovation, and Real-World Impact – NEW

Professional Development
These workshops offer insights and perspectives for enhancing your interpersonal skill set and advancing your career. Covering a range of topics from analytics and communications to metrics and negotiation skills, these sessions will further your professional growth.
Workshops
– Building Trust in Payroll: 5 Key Strategies for Future-Proofing Payroll – NEW
– Creating an Effective Business Case – NEW
– Customer Service in Payroll
– Data Analytics: The Collision of Payroll Data and Reports
– From Transactions to Strategy: Transforming Payroll Professionals for Tomorrow’s Challenges – NEW
– Get Payroll at the Table for Global Expansion – NEW
– How to Manage and Grow a Modern Payroll Team
– Integrating Payroll Disaster Recovery into Business Continuity Planning
– Make Using Analytics Applicable to You
– Mastering the Art of Persuasion, Negotiation and Influencing
– Navigating Payroll: From Industry Disruptions to Digitization – NEW
– Payroll Performance Metrics: Key Indicators for Executive Decision-Making – NEW
– Preparing and Analyzing Requests for Proposal
– Power Up Your Communication! – NEW
– The Road Ahead: Forecasting the Future of Payroll – NEW
– Transformation of Payroll: Transactional to Strategic WFM Data Analytics – NEW
– Understanding How to Research Tax Issues and Communicate With Leadership – NEW
– Unstuck: Overcoming Paralysis by Analysis to Get Ahead in Payroll—and Life!
– Zap! Pow! Payroll Career Superpowers with AI and RPA – NEW

Technology
These workshops are designed for anyone focusing on technology covering the latest on artificial intelligence, robotic process automation, pre- and post-implementation, and metrics.
Workshops
– Age of AI: Transforming Payroll Processing and Attractiveness – NEW
– AI Petting Zoo: Common AI Tools Payroll Admins Can Use Today – NEW
– Enabling Data-Driven Payroll Insights and Monitoring
– Fill the Gap: History and Compliance Data from the Old to the New HCM System – NEW
– How AI Agents are Solving Payroll’s Most Complex Problems – NEW
– How to Stay Relevant to Get Payroll on the Board Agenda – NEW
– Metrics and Measures, Get Started with KPIs
– Post-Implementation Strategy for Payroll Teams – NEW
– Power Up Your Payroll Implementation – NEW
– RPA to Improve Your Auditing Techniques
– Streamline Payroll Efficiency with Comprehensive Data Automation – NEW
– The Master Plan: What On-Demand Pay Was Always Supposed to Be – NEW
– Unlocking Value in Global Payroll: Leveraging Technology for Efficient Global Payroll Management – NEW
