Employees - Default Pay

Pay Items on your employees Default Pay tab will apply to any pay they are processed in. Some will be assigned by default according to other employee settings, while others can be customised to suit.

Pay items should only be assigned here if they will regularly be included in the employee's pay. For one-off or very irregular payments you can just add them to the relevant pay at the time you process it.

To edit your existing employee's default pay details select Manage > Employees. Click on the employee you want to edit and go to the Default Pay tab.

Refer to Pay Items Overview for more information about the pay items you can apply.

Earnings

If your employee is set up with a salary (on the Employment tab) the Salary pay item will be applied by default. This will allocate their annual salary amount evenly with each pay, based on the pay period.

Use the green add button to add any other default earnings pay items.

Employees who are recording time will have their hours added to their pay as earnings automatically, so you don't need to add those earnings codes to their Default Pay.

Reimbursements

Add regular reimbursements here. If the amount per pay will be constant you can specify it here, or for variable amounts you can manually add the amount when you process the pay.

Deductions

Tax is assigned by default for all employees, this pay item calculates PAYE and allocates it to IRD with each pay.

If the employee is set up as a KiwiSaver member, KiwiSaver Employee Deduction will appear here with their designated contribution rate from their Employment tab.

Use the green add button to add any other default deductions. You can add compulsory deductions that are set up by default such as Child Support, Fines in Default, IRD Arrears, Student Loan. Or you can add any custom deductions you may have created.

Superannuation

If the employee is set up as a KiwiSaver member, KiwiSaver Employer Deduction will appear here with the designated contribution rate from their Employment tab. 

If you have created additional Superannuation Pay Items, you will be able to apply them here.

Payments

The Direct Credit pay item is here by default to assign your employee's take home pay to their bank account number.

You can add Cash if you will regularly pay the employee cash. Designate a $ amount if it will be constant, or you can manually add the amount when you process the pay.