Pay Categories & Export Codes Explained

Pay Categories & Export Codes Explained

Pay Categories & Export Codes

Pay categories & export codes are labels used to identify pay rate multipliers – they allow you to apply pay rate multipliers to users' time. They are used in overtime rules and pay rules and payroll calculations, and they display in the pay sheet summary.

How pay codes are used in overtime rules and pay rules

Pay categories & export codes are used in overtime rules and pay rules to specify at what rate users should be paid for different categories of time worked. These codes will also be used when you export the staff timesheet into other payroll softwares such as MYOB, XERO, KeyPay...etc

For example, you might create and assign the following pay codes:


Pay Category
Description
Night Rate
Pay category used to label the time that was performed at night time
Sat Rate
Pay Category used to label the work performed on Saturday
OT (1.5x)
Overtime paid at 1.5x
OT (2.0x)
Overtime paid at 1.5x
Weekly OT (2.0x)

Weekly Overtime paid at 2.0x


Create Pay Category & Export Code
To create your pay categories & export codes go  to setting > payroll > Pay categories / Export Codes

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