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How to edit salary history, work hours and pay run details

Available for the following plans: Employment Lite, Employment Plus, Employment Unlimited
Available for the following HR plans: Free, Standard, Premium, Platinum
Available for the following user access levels: Admin   

The Salary History feature lets you update an employee's salary, assign the correct leave allowance template, leave category, and pay schedule. The Pay Run Details feature helps you determine whether employees need to submit timesheets and sync their data with your payroll platform. It also displays the user's timezone in the "Last Updated" section and accounts for daylight saving. The Work Hours feature records an employee’s work hours, allowing you to set standard weekly hours, daily totals, or customise hours based on work type and daily hours over two weeks.

Best Practice:
If an industrial instrument is selected for an employee, we recommend reviewing the details on the Fair Work website to ensure compliance and accurately determine the Anniversary Date. Pay point progression rules can vary, especially when considering continuous employment.

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Getting started

Set up Salary History

Creating an employee's salary history
  1. Click the People menu.
  2. Click the Employees List submenu.
  3. Select the employee who needs to have their salary added.
  4. In the Pay and Compensation section, select the Pay Details tab.
  5. Click the Add Salary button.
  6. Update the following fields:
    • Effective from.
    • Pay rates.
    • Pay rate (100%). Employment Hero uses the information within the Anniversary Date field and the Pay Rate Template field to calculate when to apply a pay rate increase to an employee file.
    • Effective pay rate.
    • Pay category.
    • Superannuation. 
    • Reason for change.
    • Comments.

    Helpful Hint

    The Pay Rate, Superannuation, and Pay Category fields are only editable if you are not using an industrial award. If entering a ‘per annum’ pay rate, please make sure the rate you enter is exclusive of superannuation. Superannuation will be applied on top of the pay rate listed.

    If you can not see the correct pay category for this employee, then you will need to update your data from payroll. For details on to do this, refer to the following article. Please note that organisations on the Standard plan are unable to add employee salary history with Award data.

  7. Click the Save button.
    Screenshot of pay and compensation, highlighting add salary button
View an employee's total compensation package

Available for the following plans: Employment Lite, Employment Plus, Employment Unlimited
Available for the following HR classic plans: Standard, Premium, Platinum
Available for the following user access level: Employee, Manager, Admin   

  1. Click the People menu.
  2. Click the Employees List submenu.
  3. Select the employee whose total compensation package you wish to view.
  4. In the Pay & Compensation section, select the Total Compensation tab.
    click on the total compensation tab
  5. Click on the eye icon to view the total compensation package details.
    Click on the eye icon to view the total compensation package details
  6. Here you will see the employee's total compensation package.
    total compensation package tile highlighted

Set up Pay Run Details

Configure an employee's pay run details
  1. Click the People menu.
  2. Click the Employees List submenu.
  3. Select the employee who needs to have their pay details updated.
  4. In the Pay & Compensation section, select the Pay details tab.
  5. Click the Edit button.
  6. Choose which of the following employee pay details to enable:
    • Pay employees their normal working hours by default.
    • Synchronise with payroll.
  7. Choose from the following timesheet type options:
    • Do not use timesheets.
    • Use timesheets to submit all time worked.
    • Use timesheets for exceptions only.
  8. Choose the employee's work type.

    Helpful Hint

    Pay Employees their Normal Working Hours refers to employees who work a dedicated and uniform set of hours every day/week that does not fluctuate. While the The work type field is only available for these two timesheet types: Use timesheets to submit all time worked or Use timesheets for exceptions only.

  9. Click the Save button.
    Pay 1.jpg
Set an employees to sync with payroll
  1. Click the People menu.
  2. Click the Employees List submenu.
  3. Click on the employee that you wish to synchronise to payroll
  4. In the Pay & compensation section, select the Pay details tab.
  5. Select the Synchronise with Payroll tick box.
  6. Click the Save button. Pay 1.jpg

Set up Work Hours

Set up standard daily hours
  1. Click the People menu.
  2. Click the Employee List submenu.
  3. Select the employee who needs to have their standard daily hours added.
  4. In the Pay & Compensation section, select the Pay details tab.
  5. Click the Edit button.
  6. Click the Standard Daily Hours button.
  7. Complete the following fields:
    • Normal working hours per week.
    • Ordinary work day.
  8. Click the Save button. Custom 1.jpg
Setup custom work hours: Hours based

Important

Custom Work Hours is only available on our HR classic Premium and Platinum plans. You will need to ensure that you have typical work hours set up in your company settings and under the employment settings

  1. Click the People menu.
  2. Click the Employee List submenu.
  3. Select the employee who needs to have custom work hours added.
  4. In the Pay & compensation section, select the Pay details tab.
  5. Click the Pay Details tab.
  6. Click the Edit button.
  7. Click the Custom Work Hours button.
  8. Click the Enter Hours button.
  9. Complete the following fields:
    • Cost centre.
    • Hours.
  10. Click the   button.

    Important

    A second working week will enable you to enter specific work hours over a two-week period. To read further information on how the platform determines a second working week, refer to the following section.

  11. Complete the following fields:
    • Cost centre.
    • Hours.
  12. Click the Save button. 
    Custom 1.jpg
Setup custom work hours: Start and stop times

Important

Custom Work Hours is only available on our HR classic Premium and Platinum plans. You will need to ensure that you have typical work hours set up in your company settings and under the employment settings tab.

  1. Click the People menu.
  2. Click the Employees submenu.
  3. Select the employee who needs to have custom hours added.
  4. In the Pay & compensation section, select the Pay Details tab.
  5. Click the Edit button.
  6. Click the Custom Work Hours button.
  7. Click the Start and Stop Times button.
  8. Complete the following fields:
    • Cost centre.
    • Work time.
    • Break time.
  9. Click the   button.

    Important

    A second working week will enable you to enter specific work hours over a two-week period. To read further information on how the platform determines a second working week, refer to the following section.

  10. Complete the following fields:
    • Cost centre.
    • Work time.
    • Break time.
  11. Click the Save button. 
    Custom 1.jpg
Setup employee work hours in bulk

Available for the following HR plans: Premium, Platinum

  1. Click People menu
  2. Click the Import Employees submenu.
  3. Selec the Update Employee Custom Work Hours option.

    Helpful Hint

    You can choose to select the Include existing user information checkbox and/or the Include terminated users checkbox depending on your requirements.

  4. Click the Download button.
    screenshot of Import Employees page, highlighting Update Employee Custom Work Hours button and Download button
  5. The Employee Custom Work Hours CSV file should now be in your web browser's download history. Once you are satisfied with your CSV file, click or drag the file onto the upload tile.

    Important

    Your file will need to contain all the following mandatory fields: First Name, Last Name, Account Email, Employing Entity, Location, and Pattern.

    screenshot of Import Employees page, highlighting 'Click or Drag tile(s) here to upload' tile
  6. On the Import File window, click the Yes button.
  7. Once you have ensured your data has been correctly mapped on the Map Your Columns window, click the Continue button.

    Important

    If your CSV file contains errors, a Resolve Errors window will appear. It will show the file name and a checklist of issues to fix. If you encounter this, click the file name, follow the checklist instructions, then save the improvement(s) you will need to make. When finished, re-upload the corrected file using the click or drag the file onto the upload tile.
  8. With the process now complete, read the confirmation window. This will say "Imported Successfully. All of your employees have been imported to our system".
    screenshot of Import Employees page, highlighting 'Click or Drag tile(s) here to upload' tile

Edit and Delete Data

Editing a salary history
  1. Click the People menu.
  2. Click the Employees List submenu.
  3. Select the employee who needs to have their salary edited.
  4. In the Pay & compensation section, select the Pay details tab.
  5. Click the three dots (...) button.
  6. Click the Edit button. 
  7. Make the required changes and then click the Save button.
    screenshot of salary history, highlighting edit button
Editing work hours
  1. Click the People menu.
  2. Click the Employees List submenu.
  3. Select the employee who needs to have their salary deleted.
  4. In the Pay & Compensation section, select the Pay details tab.
  5. Click the pencil icon in the Work hours section.
  6. Choose one of the following:
    • Standard daily hours
    • Custom work hours
  7. Fill in the details of the employee's new work hours.
  8. Click Save.
Deleting a salary history
  1. Click the People menu.
  2. Click the Employees List submenu.
  3. Select the employee who needs to have their salary deleted.
  4. In the Pay & compensation section, select the Pay details tab.
  5. Click the three dots (...) button.
  6. Click the Delete button.
  7. Click the Delete button on the confirmation popup.
    screenshot of salary history, highlighting delete button

Further information

What makes up the total compensation package?
The total compensation package is made up of the base pay rate and the employer and employee-contributed superannuation.
Who can see an employee's total compensation package?
Admins can view each employee's total compensation package in their file. Admins can also assign managers view access via a custom security setting called "total compensation" - view only. See here for more information about custom security settings.
Effective date: definition

The effective date is the date the salary change will sync to payroll. Please note the below: 

Employment Hero Payroll

  • Today or a past date will sync as of today’s date. The past date will be stored in HR; however, the salary will change in Payroll as of today’s date so any necessary back payments will need to be calculated. 
  • A future date will sync and be applied in payroll as of the future date

Xero

  • If today or a past date is entered in HR, there is an option to sync that to Xero
  • If a future date is added, it will not sync to payroll but trigger an email to payroll admin to manually add that to Xero
Syncing casual employees between HR and Payroll

When filling in salary details for employees in HR platforms connected to EH Payroll classic, selecting the industrial instrument and classification automatically populates the award rate based on the given payroll settings. For casual employees, the populated pay rate includes casual loading, which is automatically applied in Payroll. If the user doesn’t override the pay rate and enter the hourly rate excluding casual loading in HR, syncing to Payroll will apply the loading appropriately.

How are the weeks determined for custom work hours?

Employment Hero bases the first and second working week on an employee's start date, i.e. if an employee's start date is the 1st of January, the week of the 1st January to the 7th January will be their first working week. Then from the 8th January to the 15th of January will be their second working week.

What payroll platforms are compatible with custom work hours?

Please note that Custom Work Hours are only compatible with the Employment Hero Payroll classic platform. Please click this link for more information.

Explore related content

  • Manage employee salary history You can use this feature to add an employee's salary details and specify the leave allowance template, leave category and pay schedule that needs to be applied.
  • Manage employee pay run details This feature allows you to select whether employees do not need to submit timesheets, submit them only as an exception or they submit a timesheet for all work they undertake within your organisation.
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