Cobalt Operations Team: Fixed-width payment file column map
Fixed-width payment file column map for Cobalt Operations Team. The documented column map for bank-payment-fixed-width.txt: 9 fields with 1-based start, length, end and type, tiling the 105-character record with no gap and no overlap. It also carries the control totals a bank file is checked against: 8 records and 664944 cents.
json
application/json
- Document Set
- payroll
- Industry
- people-operations
- Source Kit
- people-operations
- Synthetic
- true
- As Of
- 2026-09-08
- Fields
- 9
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Specifications
- Document Set
- payroll
- Industry
- people-operations
- Source Kit
- people-operations
- Synthetic
- true
- As Of
- 2026-09-08
- Fields
- 9
- Record Length
- 105
- Record Count
- 8
- Control Total Cents
- 664944
- Encoding
- UTF-8
Testing contract
Reference control- Scenario
- Build a fixed-width reader from this map and check both control totals.
- Expected result
- The 9 field definitions start at 1, end at 105 and their lengths sum to 105. A reader built from the map parses all 8 records with no residue and the amount field sums to 664944 cents, matching controlTotalCents and 6649.44 on bank-payment-file.csv.
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Code examples
import json
with open("bank-payment-layout.json") as f:
data = json.load(f)
print(type(data), len(data))Related files
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- jsonCobalt Operations Team: Benefit deduction schedule JSONBenefit deduction schedule JSON for Cobalt Operations Team. The same 8 enrolments as benefits-deduction-schedule.csv with the rule that separates a deduction from an employer cost stated in words. totalPremiums is 840.00, of which only 336.00 is deducted from pay.

- 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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