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SIF (Salary Information File)

Last updated 14 Nov 2026

What is SIF (Salary Information File)?

A SIF (Salary Information File) is the file a UAE employer sends to its bank or exchange house to pay salaries through the Wage Protection System: one record per employee and a control record with the totals.

Each employee record carries the employee's labour identifier, bank routing code and account, the pay period, days paid, fixed and variable pay and leave days. The control record names the employer and totals the file.

Banks and exchange houses differ in the exact layout and validation rules, so a new file format should be tested with a small batch before the first live run.

How Civova handles it

Civova writes the SIF from the approved payroll run (an employer control record, one EDR line per employee and the totals), and we validate it with your bank before go-live.

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