The “Greatest Payroll Show on Earth” Begins

More than 2,000 payroll professionals are attending the American Payroll Association’s 21st Annual Congress, APA’s Executive Director Dan Maddux told participants at the opening general session April 30. The exhibit hall has some 149 exhibitors—the most ever for a Congress—at this, the conference, dubbed “The Greatest Payroll Show on Earth” by the APA, Maddux said.

Maddux also welcomed representatives from several foreign countries, including: Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Nigeria, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

Ken Low, of The Association for Payroll Specialists (TAPS) in Australia pointed out that he is seeing the role of payroll within organizations expand. He noted that in Australia, there seems to be a movement of HR administrative functions on down to the line-level managers, and that payroll is picking up extra company-wide duties, such as pension and other benefit administration.

Both APA’s new President, Irene Chapman, CPP, from PeopleSoft, and outgoing president Lucy Key Price, CPP, also gave speeches during the session.

By Michael Baer, CPP