Manage my pay categories as a manager on the Payroll platform

Your organisation may have many different employee payment rates. Automating the relevant rate calculations is important to reduce the time spent on otherwise labour-intensive administration.

This article shows you how to use the Pay Categories feature. This allows you to create a new pay category and define the unit of accrual, rate loading, and payment classification. You can also edit any pay categories you have created previously and delete any that are no longer required.

Important

Any changes made to your pay categories will need to be synced to your HR platform. To learn how to do this, refer to this article.

Getting started

Add a pay category
  1. Log into your Employment Hero Payroll platform.
  2. Click the  Business Settings menu.
  3. Click the Payroll Settings submenu.
  4. Click the  Pay Categories button.
  5. Click the Add button.
    Screenshot of where to click add to add a new pay category
  6. Enter the pay category name.
  7. If this is a fixed pay category, tick the Is Fixed checkbox. Otherwise, leave it unticked.

    Note: Fixed pay categories cannot be changed to hourly/annually/daily/monthly after they have been created. If a pay category needs to be changed, you will need to create a new pay category.
     
  8. Click the Save button.
    nz add new pay category1
  9. Complete the following fields:
    • Name
    • Units
    • Rate loading

      Note: The Payroll platform will add the rate loading amount on top of the base rate.
       
    • Penalty-loading

      Note: The Payroll platform will add the penalty loading amount on top of the base rate and the rate loading.
       
    • PAYE-exempt
    • Accrues leave
    • KiwiSaver exempt
    • Parental leave
    • ACC levy exempt
    • Exclude from average weekly earnings
    • Exclude from ordinary weekly pay
    • Hide units on pay slip
    • External ID
    • Rate precision

      Tip: You can click the 'Add Linked Category' button to link pay categories together. When linking a pay category to a base pay category, you only need to specify the base rate for the employee. The platform will then automatically calculate the rate for the linked pay categories. Note that you cannot add linked pay categories to ‘Fixed’ pay categories.
       
  10. Click the Save button.
    Screenshot of where to click save to add a new linked category

Edit data

Edit a pay category

Warning

Renaming and reusing a pay category for a different purpose than initially required may cause corruption of historical records. If you require a new pay category similar to an existing pay category, we recommend you create a brand new pay category.

  1. Log into your Employment Hero Payroll platform.
  2. Click the  Business Settings menu.
  3. Click the Payroll Settings submenu.
  4. Click the Pay Rate Template button.
  5. Click the pay category that needs to be edited.
    Screenshot of where to click the pay category you wish to edit
  6. Make the required changes and click the Save button.
    Screenshot of where to click save to edit the pay category

Manage date

Restore a deleted pay category
  1. Log into your Employment Hero Payroll platform.
  2. Click the  Business Settings menu.
  3. Click the Payroll Settings submenu.
  4. Click  Restore Deleted Items.
  5. Select Pay category from the drop-down menu.
    Screenshot of where to click restore to restore the deleted pay category
  6. Select Restore for the correct pay category.
    Screenshot of where to click restore to restore the deleted pay category
  7. Confirm the restoration of the pay category.
    Screenshot of where to click restore to restore the deleted pay category

Delete data

Delete a pay category

Note: You should not delete a pay category used in a pay run, as this will affect your reporting. Instead, you should rename the category with the pre-fix DNU (do not use).

  1. Log into your Employment Hero Payroll platform.
  2. Click the  Business Settings menu.
  3. Click the Payroll Settings submenu.
  4. Click the Pay Rate Template button.
  5. Click the Delete button.
    Screenshot of where to click delete to delete the pay category
  6. Click the Delete button.
    Screenshot of where to click delete to delete the pay category

Further information

Default pay categories

The Employment Hero Payroll platform comes with pre-populated pay categories. The platform has marked these categories with a tag called 'platform'.

They allow you to differentiate between the pay categories you have created, and the ones generated by the EH Payroll platform. You cannot rename, delete, or link these categories to another pay category.

The pre-populated pay categories are:

  • Allowances - Other (Opening balances)
  • Alternative Holiday Leave Taken
  • Annual Holidays Taken
  • Covid leave
  • Domestic Violence Leave Taken
  • Extra Pay (Discretionary Payment - excluding AWE)
  • Extra Pay (Including AWE)
  • Extra Pay (KiwiSaver Exempt)
  • Pay as you go (8%)
  • Public holiday not worked
  • Public holiday worked
  • Redundancy payment
  • Retirement allowance
  • Sick leave taken
  • Termination Alternative Holidays Entitlement
  • Termination Annual Holidays Entitlement
  • Termination Holiday Pay (%)
  • Termination Public Holidays Entitlement

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