Payroll categories

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All the bits and pieces that make up an employee’s standard pay are known as payroll categories. They include things like normal time, overtime, superannuation, salary sacrifice, PAYG withholding, and so on.

You can add these categories to employee standard pays from the Card Information window > Payroll Details view of an employee’s card. You can also review the full list of payroll categories that have already been set up by going to Payroll command centre > Payroll Categories:

Payroll categories are split into these six types. Click the links below to learn more about them and how to create new categories:

Payroll category	Description
Wages	All amounts paid for labour or services rendered on an hourly, salary or other basis, including allowances and bonuses. Other payments, like annual and personal leave are also paid using wage categories (leave balances are tracked using entitlement categories).
Superannuation	Superannuation benefits such as superannuation guarantee and salary sacrifice.
Entitlements	Leave entitlements, like annual and personal leave, which employees accrue under the terms of their work agreement, are tracked using entitlement categories (but paid out using wage categories).
Deductions	Amounts withheld by you on behalf of employees, and usually paid to other organisations. For example, union fees.
Taxes	PAYG amounts withheld from the employee’s paycheque and paid to the ATO. You can't create tax categories, you can only view the existing PAYG Withholding category. To view the tax table information, click the Taxes tab and then click the zoom arrow ( ) next to PAYG Withholding. Tax table information is set by the ATO. Therefore, any queries should be referred to the ATO.
Expenses	Most businesses don’t need to use this payroll category type. But if you have benefits other than superannuation that you pay for your employees, you could set them up as expenses.

FAQs

How do I delete a payroll category?

You can only delete a payroll category if it hasn't been used and isn't part of an employee’s standard pay.

Go to the Payroll command centre > Payroll Categories. Open the payroll category you want to delete, and then go to the Edit menu and choose Delete Category. Note that you can’t delete the Base Hourly and Base Salary payroll categories.

If you want to edit an existing category, see Editing payroll categories.

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