Available for the following HR plans: Premium, Platinum
Available for the following plans: Employment Lite, Employment Plus, Employment Unlimited
Available for the following User Access levels: Admin
Understanding the full value of a compensation package can be complex. To provide complete transparency, our Total Compensation Dashboard centralises base salary, employer pension contributions, and additional benefits into a single, comprehensive view for both administrators and employees.
For organisations utilising our HR-only platform, we’ve designed the system to be highly flexible, ensuring your digital records perfectly mirror your actual company schemes.
Tailoring pension contributions to your business
While the platform defaults to a 3% employer contribution, we recognise that every company’s benefits strategy is unique. You have the power to customise these figures to ensure accuracy across the board.
In Employment Hero, you can:
- Establish a Global Standard: Set a universal pension rate that applies to your entire organisation.
- Customise at the Individual Level: Override the standard employer contribution percentage for specific employees to reflect bespoke contracts or seniority tiers.
- Maintain Consistency: Easily revert any individual back to the company-wide standard rate with a single click.
Note: If your payroll is natively integrated with our platform, your pension data is automatically synced from your payroll records. In this case, your data is already "live" and cannot be manually edited within HR.
Manage data
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Click the Settings menu on the left of the screen.
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Click the Payroll tile and select the Pensions option.
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Switch on the toggle to view and change your Employer contributions.
- Enter your chosen percentage.
- The rate must be between 0% and 50%.
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You can use up to two decimal places.
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Click the Save button.
A success message will confirm: "Pension contribution percentage successfully updated".
Important
Updates to the organisation employer pension percentage will immediately refresh the total compensation charts for each employee.
- Open the employee's profile and go to the Total Compensation tab.
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In the Pension section, the new employer pension contribution percentage will be applied.
Important
Updates to an individual's pension rate will immediately refresh their total compensation charts and totals without needing to reload the page.
- Open the employee's profile and go to their Total Compensation tab.
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Find the Pension section and click the Edit (pencil) icon.
- In the side panel that opens, enter the new Employer contribution percentage.
- Click the Save button.
A status chip will appear on the widget indicating the value is "Overridden".
- Open the employee's profile and go to their Total Compensation tab.
- Click the Edit (pencil) icon in the Pension section.
- Click the link in the side panel that says Revert to organisation default.
- Click the Save button.
The status chip will update to show "Uses org default".
Find answers to common questions
The system takes the percentage you set and applies it to the employee's yearly pensionable base pay. All final amounts are shown with two decimal places. If an employee has no base pay on record, the system will show "0" as a placeholder.
Only Admins can change these settings. While Managers and employees can see the pension information, they cannot see or use the Edit tools. The system keeps a record of every change, including the actor, timestamp, previous values, and new values.
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