Cobalt Operations Team: Fixed-width bank payment file
Fixed-width bank payment file for Cobalt Operations Team. 8 records of exactly 105 characters each, the shape a bank credit-transfer file still arrives in. There is no delimiter and no header. Amounts are unsigned cents, zero filled and right justified in an 11-character field, so 604.80 is written as 00000060480. The column map is bank-payment-layout.json.
txt
text/plain
- Document Set
- payroll
- Industry
- people-operations
- Source Kit
- people-operations
- Synthetic
- true
- As Of
- 2026-09-08
- Records
- 8
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Specifications
- Document Set
- payroll
- Industry
- people-operations
- Source Kit
- people-operations
- Synthetic
- true
- As Of
- 2026-09-08
- Records
- 8
- Record Length
- 105
- Fields
- 9
- Amount Encoding
- unsigned cents, zero filled
- Line Endings
- LF
- Encoding
- ASCII
Testing contract
Expected to pass- Scenario
- Parse the file by column position using bank-payment-layout.json and total the amount field.
- Expected result
- Every one of the 8 lines is exactly 105 characters before the newline. Reading columns 68 to 78 as unsigned cents and dividing by 100 gives 6649.44, matching bank-payment-file.csv and the net_pay total of the payroll register.
What is a .txt file?
TXT is a plain-text file containing unformatted character data with no styling or structure beyond line breaks. Its interpretation depends on character encoding, most commonly UTF-8, and on line-ending convention. It is the most universal and portable text container.
How to use this file
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How to use this file for testing
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Related files
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- csvCobalt Operations Team: Benefit plan rate cardBenefit plan rate card for Cobalt Operations Team. Two health plans. STD costs 105.00 a period of which the employer pays 63.00, 60.00 percent, and all 8 employees are on it. ENH is defined at 174.00 with nobody enrolled, so it is the negative case: a plan that exists in the rate card and must never appear in a deduction.
- csvCobalt Operations Team: Employee directoryEmployee directory for Cobalt Operations Team. 8 employees with department, pay basis, rate and start date. The names are the model's own role labels, not people, and the directory carries no address, telephone number, date of birth or national identifier. The bank fields are reserved test values: sort code 000000 and sequential account numbers from 00000001 to 00000008, flagged as such in the last column.
- jsonCobalt Operations Team: Employee directory JSONEmployee directory JSON for Cobalt Operations Team. The same 8 employees as employee-directory.csv with a department count and a privacy note. The team splits 4 in Operations, 4 in Service.
- csvCobalt Operations Team: Employer cost summaryEmployer cost summary for Cobalt Operations Team. What the period actually costs the employer: 9072.00 of gross pay plus 272.16 of employer pension, 694.01 of payroll tax and 504.00 of health contribution, 10542.17 in total, which is 116.21 percent of gross and 31.38 per paid hour. None of it is deducted from pay: employees receive 6649.44.
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