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An employee might need to be paid back pay to account for a wage increase, or to make up for an incorrect pay rate.

The amount of back pay owed is the difference between how much the employee should have been paid and the amount actually paid. Once you know how much back pay is due, you can include it in the employee's next pay.

Let's step you through how to handle back pay. This process assumes you've updated the employee's pay details to the current (correct) pay rate.

 

1. Determine how much back pay is due

To work out how much the employee should have been paid

  1. Start a new pay run for the employee and review their pay details. The values shown will be based on the employee's updated pay rate
  2. Take note of the gross pay and PAYG Withholding values

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To work out the difference in gross wages for the back pay period:

  1. Determine the amount of gross wages the employee would have received over the back pay period given the INCREASE in their pay rate or salary.
  2. Determine the amount of gross wages the employee actually received over the back pay period given NO INCREASE in the pay rate or salary.
  3. Calculate the change in gross wages by subtracting the figure calculated in step 2 from the figure calculated in step 1.  In most cases this will be a positive figure.

 

To work out the difference in tax for the back pay period:

  1. Determine the amount of PAYG Income Tax that would have been deducted over the back pay period given the INCREASE in their pay rate or salary.
  2. Determine the amount of PAYG Income Tax actually deducted over the back pay period given NO INCREASE in the pay rate or salary.
  3. Calculate the change in PAYG Income Tax by subtracting the figure calculated in step 2 from the figure calculated in step 1. In most cases this will be a positive figure. 
2. Pay the back pay

When you process the employee's pay,

Write the paycheque for the employee pay. This pay would firstly include their wage for that pay period which would be calculated using the new rate of pay. Take a note of the PAYG Income Tax amount that the payroll module has automatically calculated and write it on a separate sheet of paper. Add the result from Step 6 to the figure written down in Step 8. This will give us the figure that needs to be entered for PAYG Income Tax on the paycheque. Do not manually change anything on the paycheque in this step. Add the figure calculated in Step 3 to the wage for that pay period, this will automatically adjust the PAYG Tax Amount to an INCORRECT figure. Now change the PAYG Tax to the figure calculated in Step 9. This will result in the paycheque having the correct PAYG Income Tax and the correct amount of back pay included in the employee's normal pay period's wages.

 

 

  FAQs


How do I add the items and expenses related to a job onto the customer’s invoice?

Click Reimburse to see a list of all the job purchases and expenses you have assigned a job number to, that can now be reimbursed on the sale.

How do I set a credit limit or put an account on hold?

You should enter the credit limit you've assigned in each customer's card. If you want to stop sales from being recorded for customers who have exceeded their credit limit, you can place them on hold.