Payroll Congress
Education
Congress Workshops
Payroll Congress offers four days of top-rated educational workshops. Choose from more 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
– Power of Benchmarking
– Taxable and Nontaxable Fringe Benefits, Part 1
– Taxable and Nontaxable Fringe Benefits, Part 2
– Equity Compensation and a Mobile Workforce Abroad
– Taxable and Nontaxable Fringe Benefits, Part 3
– Imputed Income: What, When, Where, Why, and How
– Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans
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
– Powering Up: Navigating the Early Stages of Expansion
– Africa – The New HOT SPOT? A re You Ready?
– Master Tax Equalization for Payroll
– Strategic Globalization of Your Payroll Organization: Navigating the Complexities of International Expansion
– Global/Regional Payroll Sourcing Strategy – Vendor Contracting
– Success in Global Payroll Transformation: A Real-Time Cast Study
– Global Payroll Documentation Inputs/Outputs
– Digital Nomads – Working from Home When Home is in Another Country
– Global Payroll Structure, Governance and Change
– Employment Standards and Nontaxation Issues in Canadian Payroll
– Decoding the Payroll Puzzle: Strategies for Seamless Global Integration
– Deep Dive into Risk & Control in Global Payroll
– Embedding Global Payroll into Shared Services Model
– Keeping Payroll Compliant When Using a Global Employer of Record
– Navigating Canadian Payrolls: Taxation Challenges and Compliance
– Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Ensuring Payroll Continuity in Global Divestiture
– Taxable Benefits in Canada
– Expats and How It Can All Go Horribly Wrong
– Compliance in Global Payroll: ROI vs Risk Management
– EOR vs PEO
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
– The Three Ts of Payroll Compliance: Technology, Transparency, and Trends
– Prevailing Wage
– Certified Payrolls
– The Three Cs of Child Support – Collaboration, Compliance, and Change
– Payroll Prospecting Through the Federal Reserve
– Social Tax Updates, From Unemployment to Family Leave to Medical Leave
– What’s New in ACH Payments
– Domestic Mobility, Part 1
– The Future is Now: A Conversation with IRS and DOL
– Domestic Mobility, Part 2
– What You Need to Know: A Conversation with SSA & BLS
– A Conversation with U.S. Census Bureau and PayrollOrg
– 1099-NEC and 1099-MISC Reporting: Federal and State Requirements
– Remote Work: Payroll Risk and Compliance
– It’s State and Local Payroll Compliance
– Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Plans: A Tax-Efficient Alternative to Lump-Sum Severance Payments
– Top 10 Wage and Hour Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
– Building Relationships Across HR, Payroll, and Finance
– Navigating the Emerging Tax Compliance Changes for Employers
– EWA Panel
– Trends and Insights: Reviewing 2025 State Unemployment Insurance Tax Rates and Looking Ahead to 2026
– Hot topics for 2025
– Employment Law Lessons Learned
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
– Learn How Storytelling Matters for Payroll Professionals
– Payroll Transformation Mastery – Leadership Starts with You
– Leadership Aura
– Attract, Recruit, and Retain Top Payroll Talent
– I Can’t Read Your Mind
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
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
– Termination Timeliness: Compliance Planning
– Best of the Pacifica North West: Payroll Tax Issues in WA, and OR
– Overpayments: What Can We Do?
– Gender Pay Reporting and Equality
– Expat Payroll – Overview and Best Practices
– How to Audit Your Payroll Department
– Optimizing Payroll Performance Through Continuous Process Improvement
– Calculating Deceased Wages Correctly
– Payroll in New York, Part 1
– Payroll in New York, Part 2
– The Payroll Maverick – A One-Person Team
– California Labor Law and Payroll Tax Issues, Part 1
– Garnishments, Levies, Student Loans, and More
– California Labor Law and Payroll Tax Issues, Part 2
– Navigating Union Payrolls with Confidence
– The Nuts and Bolts of Child Support
– Fair Labor Standards Act
– Mergers and Acquisitions from a Payroll Perspective
– Ensuring Payroll Continuity Amid Cyber Disruptions
– OH State and Locals
– FLSA: Regular Rate of Pay and Its Complexities
– Level Up Your VISA Knowledge – Navigating the Immigration Game
– Supplemental Wages Don’t Require Withholding 22% Federal Income Tax!
– Passionate About Internal Controls
– Impact of the W-4 on Paycheck Calculations
– PA State and Locals
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
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
– Transformation of Payroll: Transactional to Strategic WFM Data Analytics
– Story Telling Through Payroll Data
– Building Trust in Payroll: 5 Key Strategies for Future-Proofing Payroll
– Integrating Payroll Disaster Recovery into Business Continuity Planning
– Best Practices for Leading Payroll Projects
– Customer Service in Payroll
– Get Payroll at the Table for Global Expansion
– Mastering the Art of Persuasion, Negotiation and Influencing
– Zap! Pow! Payroll Career Superpowers with AI and RPA
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
– A Day in the Life of a Payroller in 2030
– Age of AI: Transforming Payroll Processing and Attractiveness
– Streamline Payroll Efficiency with Comprehensive Data Automation
– How to Stay Relevant to Get Payroll on the Board Agenda
– Power Up Your Payroll Implementation
– AI Petting Zoo: Common AI Tools Payroll Admins Can Use Today
– Metrics and Measures, Get Started with KPIs
– The Master Plan: What On-Demand Pay Was Always Supposed to Be
– Unlocking Value in Global Payroll: Leveraging Technology for Efficient Global Payroll Management
– RPA to Improve Your Auditing Techniques
– Fill the Gap: History and Compliance Data from the Old to the New HCM System
– Enabling Data-Driven Payroll Insights and Monitoring
– Post-Implementation Strategy for Payroll Teams
