Adding Pay Components for Allowances, Deductions, Payments and Salary Sacrifice

Components are added as pay components when an employee has an ongoing allowance or deduction which needs to be processed in each pay run.

The most common examples of these on-going deductions or allowances include Salary Sacrifice, Child Support, Vehicle Allowance and Travel Allowance etc.

Select the desired employee, then navigate to the Employee tab > Pay Components screen. Select either the Allowance or Deduction type heading.

In the component Assignment dialogue box, select the required component from the Component combo box, as well as the effective date.

Note that deductions and allowances will not pro-rata when starting or ending part way through a pay period. If the pay component assignment is active at any part of the pay period the component will pay or deduct the entire amount.

You are able to alter the component name so it will show differently in the employees' pay packet, though this is not necessarily recommended as components will be represented with the original component name in all reports. There is also the option to exclude the pay component from manual pay packets, which is typically recommended for this type of pay component, as they are usually only supposed to receive them once per pay period.

After saving you will need to enter component values.
Click on the newly assigned pay component (which will now appear in bold in your component list as it is assigned at the current scope level) to bring up the component values at the right of your screen. Enter Amount to Deduct/Amount to pay and/or any other required fields (e.g. Bank account number).

This component will now be automatically generated and added into this employee's pay packet upon creation each pay run.