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title: What do the different roles and permissions do?
description: "Employee Data:  Hidden Salary:  Salary:  Time offs:  Timesheets:  Hiring Manager: Excluding System Administrator and No Access, all other roles have the option to be assigned the available permissions"
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# What do the different roles and permissions do?

#### Permissions:

**Employee Data:** 

- This would allow a user to modify an employee's data.

**Hidden Salary:** 

- This allows a user to view/modify an employee's salary if it is hidden from regular users.

**Salary:** 

- This allows a user to view/modify an employee's salary information.

**Time offs:** 

- This would allow a user to approve/deny time off requests.

**Timesheets:** 

- This would allow a user to approve/deny submitted timesheets.

**Hiring Manager:**

- This would allow a user to be set as the hiring manager for a position and access the applicants for that position.

#### Roles:

Excluding System Administrator and No Access, all other roles have the option to be assigned the available permissions.

**System Administrator**

- All Permissions

**HR Administrator**

- Employee Data
- Hidden Salary
- Salary

**HR Clerk (View Only)**

- Employee Data
- Hidden Salary
- Salary

**Payroll Administrator**

- Employee Data
- Hidden Salary
- Salary

**Payroll Clerk (View Only)**

- Employee Data
- Hidden Salary
- Salary

**Employee**

- Employee Data
- Time offs
- Timesheets

**No Access**

- No Permissions

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