Wage Computation Function
A Wage Computation Function, abbreviated WCF, is the identified deterministic computation applied to a Wage Fact Set under declared bindings to produce a Canonical Wage State Object.
Required inputs
A WCF operates on:
- identified Wage Fact Set
- policy binding
- jurisdiction binding
- time index
- authority context
- computation version
- rounding and precision rules where applicable
- error and uncertainty rules
Output
A WCF resolves a wage value within a declared protocol context. The resolved value becomes Computed Wage only when represented through a valid CWSO under the required bindings.
Computation fingerprint
The computation fingerprint enables the computation basis to be identified, tested and replayed. It must not be described as a generic document hash or as proof that the inputs were correct.
Determinism
Determinism means the same declared inputs, bindings, computation version and rules produce the same result; it does not make incorrect inputs correct.
Replay
Replay re-executes the identified computation against the declared inputs and bindings to reproduce the result.
Software boundary
A spreadsheet formula or software routine is not automatically a WCF. It may form part of a WCF only where it is identified, versioned, policy-bound, reproducible, replayable and used within the required WAGECODE context.
Boundaries
A WCF is not a runtime, a payroll engine, certification, or a legal determination.
This page provides a controlled public reference to WAGECODE v1.0. It does not reproduce, amend or replace the complete published specification. Where any difference arises, WAGECODE v1.0 controls.
WAGECODE implementation independence and conformance do not grant or imply a licence to CWSO Authority proprietary runtime assets. Protocol conformance, runtime-asset authorisation and affiliation are separate questions.