🎯 This article is for admins who haven’t imported an Award from our Award library and who are looking to assign hourly wages to their employees. Get familiar with editing employee details to make full use of this feature.

If you are unsure of the correct Award coverage for your company or employees, we encourage you to visit the Fair Work Commission Awards finder page or contact the Fair Work Ombudsman to discuss this further. Getting this right is very important and sets the foundation for paying your employees correctly. You should also seek any independent legal advice as appropriate for your business.

If you have imported an Award into your Planday organization, go to Classification and wages.

Set an employee’s pay by assigning an hourly wage

To apply hourly wages, you will first need to assign an Employee group (job role) to your employee. You can learn more about Employee groups here.

You can set an employee’s hourly wage by navigating to People > Employees > Click on the employee’s name > edit the Employee group, set a wage and choose a valid from date.

Penalty and overtime rates will be based on the wage input in the field above.

Otherwise, if you are setting up the employee’s profile, go to People > Employees > Edit employee > switch to the Employment tab > Employee groups, edit the Employee group, set a wage and choose a valid from date.

Update an employee’s hourly wage

You can update an employee’s hourly wage by navigating to People > Employees > Click on the employee’s name > edit the Employee group, change the wage and choose a new valid from date.

See wage history

You can go to People > Employees > Edit employee > switch to the Employment tab > Employee groups, edit the Employee group and view the wage history by selecting the Wage history tab to the right of Details.

Planday offers many options to ensure your employees are paid correctly, even in complex circumstances. To learn about assigning fixed salaries, please go to How to set an Employee's salary.

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