After a payroll run, five workers errored and 10,000 succeeded. After correcting underlying issues for the five workers, which action should you take to correct their payroll results?

• A. Process Payroll
• B. Mark erred workers for retry and retry the payroll
• C. Rollback the payroll run and reprocess
• D. Manually update the payroll run status for each worker from error to complete

Answer: (B)

When only a subset of workers failed and the issues have been corrected, you should retry payroll processing for those errored workers only. This uses the system’s retry mechanism to reprocess just the affected records while leaving the successful ones untouched, ensuring you don’t disturb the 10,000 correct results.

Processing the entire payroll again would unnecessarily rework everyone and could overwrite or alter already correct results. Rolling back the whole run and reprocessing is a heavier, broader action that affects all workers and requires additional steps. Manually updating the run status for each worker isn’t how the system recalculates payroll; it won’t trigger the necessary recalculation or ensure data integrity.