This help guide will detail how to automatically apply Outer Limits and Wage Compare top-up payments to Timesheets in Tanda. These features both calculate the payment amount according to the employee's Wage Compare setup, as configured in their Staff Profile via Pay Conditions > Wage Compare.

For more context about how Outer Limits and Wage Comparisons work in Tanda, see our help guides: How do I check if my employee has exceeded their outer limits for penalty hours and overtime hours worked? and See What Employees Would Earn Under a Different Pay Classification (Wage Compare).

Some Modern Awards contain annualised wage clauses that allow employers to pay annual salaries to their employees, provided they meet certain conditions.

One of those conditions is that they top up the employee's salary if they work more overtime or penalty rate hours in a pay or roster cycle than is accounted for under the annual salary provisions of the Award, otherwise known as ‘outer limits’. Essentially, outer limits refer to the maximum number of penalty and overtime hours an employee can work within a pay cycle or roster cycle while still having those hours covered by their annualised salary. The employee will require a top-up payment if these outer limits are exceeded.

To learn more, see our outer limits help guide.

To automatically apply outer limits top-up payments to Timesheets, you will first need to enable the relevant setting. To do so, navigate to Settings > All Settings > Timesheets > View all timesheet settings > Wage Compare. Look for the setting ‘Add outer limits payments to timesheets.’

Ensure you click UPDATE SETTINGS at the bottom of the page to save your changes.

Please note that, when enabling either of these settings and a payment is applicable, Tanda will create an Allowance costed at $1 per unit for making the payment. For example, for outer limits payments, this is called Outer Limits Overtime Top Up (Automated). There will also be one for ordinary and one for non-ordinary hours (overtime). So, if you have both settings enabled, it can potentially create up to four allowances. This works similarly to the process outlined here.

Once this setting has been enabled, automatic outer limits top-up payments will be governed by the employee's outer limit settings, as configured in the Wage Compare section of their Staff Profile.

You can use these settings to configure the employee's weekly maximum penalty hours (i.e. if they exceed this value, they will require a top-up payment), weekly maximum overtime hours, and averaging cadence (either each pay cycle, each overtime averaging period, or a custom period of your choosing).

Ensure you click SAVE to confirm your changes.

Once enabled and configured, outer limits top-up payments will appear on the relevant payslips/timesheets as follows:

Payslip Lines:

Timesheets:

Tanda's Wage Compare feature (accessible by navigating to a user's Staff Profile, then selecting Payroll > Wage Compare) allows users to compare an employee's actual earnings to what they would have earned under a different pay classification. It is modelled on the Fair Work Commission's Better Off Overall Test (BOOT).

Customers can use Wage Compare to compare an employee's pay under any two pay configurations.

To learn more, see our help guide.

To automatically apply Wage Compare top-up payments to Timesheets, you will first need to enable the relevant setting. To do so, navigate to Settings > All Settings > Timesheets > View all timesheet settings > Wage Compare. Look for the setting ‘Add wage compare payments to timesheets.’

Ensure you click UPDATE SETTINGS at the bottom of the page to save your changes.

Once this setting has been enabled, automatic Wage Compare top-up payments will be governed by the employee's Wage Compare settings, as configured in the Wage Compare section of their Staff Profile. Specifically, these automatic payments are made according to the "Wage Compare Reporting Period" as set in the employee's profile via Workforce > Staff > select an employee > Payroll > Wage Compare > add/edit a Wage Comparison.

Once enabled and configured, wage compare top-up payments will appear on the relevant payslips/timesheets as follows:

Payslip Lines:

Timesheets: