Salary Package

This enables you to create a brand new Salary Package effective dated record.

To create a new record, click New, and the second level Toolbar will be displayed with the From date field automatically populated with today's date (if the record on screen is the current record) and the To date field with '31/12/9999'.

This saves the updates to the effective dated record.

This button allows you to remove the Salary Package effective dated record.

• Please note, however, that a Past Salary Package record with a Package Status of 'Confirmed' cannot be deleted.
• A Salary Package record can be deleted anytime as long as it has status 'Draft'. Confirmed Salary Package that has a Start Date prior to Paid Up To Date cannot be deleted.
• A Future Salary Package record can be deleted no matter the current Package Status. Once this is performed, all traces of its existence will be removed if the Package Status is 'Confirmed' (i.e. all records created for Allowance/ Deduction and Salary falling within the specified period).

• If a component attached to a Package has been marked as Continue after package ends, the only record deleted upon Package deletion is the one falling within the deleted package time-frame.

This refreshes the current record.

This button allows you to copy the current effective dated record displayed on your screen.

• You have to set From and To dates that are different from the record you are cloning to save the cloned record successfully. If the From and To Dates are not changed (i.e. same with the cloned record), a warning message will be displayed once you click on Save informing you that a record with those dates is already existing.

This option allows you to edit the record that is currently displayed on your screen. Clicking Change implies that the current record is to be overridden/ updated with the values you will be entering on the screen.

A second level of Toolbar will be made available once Change has been selected, enabling the From and To fields as well as the Change Reason.

This allows you to cancel your current updates or the creation of a new record.

This allows you to view and select effective dated records available.

The From and To fields allow you to setup the new effective dated record via the Date Picker. Setup the Start Date of the effective record using From while determine up to what date the record will become active using To.

Identify the reason for updating the effective dated record. Select from the drop-down list your reason of update.

This field displays the Position ID of the selected employee. This field is read-only.

This field displays the Salary Grade of the selected employee. This field is read-only.

• Package records with Package Status Draft are the only ones allowed to be edited in full.

• If the Package Status has been set to Draft, the Salary Package record, Salary record, and corresponding Components records will be stored in a temporary file. If required, you may come back to the Package record using the Change button to perform any update, and save the record again with status Draft. This is allowed to be done as many times as required as long as the record keeps its status as Draft.

• Given that you may have more than one draft containing overlapping or exact matching dates, the word Draft will be added on the Package Status at the beginning of the Change Reason description that will be displayed in the effective dating drop-down list.

• Draft Salary Package records will be validated upon Save against Confirmed Salary Package records to determine if they overlap or not with any existing records. Should a Draft record overlap with an existing Salary Package, a warning message will be displayed, and you will be required to adjust the Draft record before you can Confirm to ensure that the confirmed record is saved successfully.

• Once you are confident that the Package has everything required, and you want to apply the Package values to the employee, the Package Status needs to be changed to Confirmed, and the record needs to be saved again.

  • On saving this record, you will be warned about existing effective dated records for A/D Codes and Pay Rates being overwritten, and a new package definition being required to keep track of changes if anything has not been properly set up.

• Once a Package has been set as Confirmed, when clicking the Change button, not all but a reduced number of fields will be available to be adjusted (i.e. from the Package Details section, the fields allowed to be adjusted are Next Review Date, TEC, and ASG).

• Components of a Confirmed Package can have their values adjusted, which will generate an A/D Code effective dated record update. If the component has been paid, these changes will generate retrospective transactions for the relevant A/D Codes based on their classification. To avoid generating retro transactions while editing Package Components, it is recommended that you end date the existing package, and create a Cloned version of it with the required adjustments from the date the changes should take effect on.

• If a Package that has been confirmed and paid is required to be edited in any of the fields not allowed to be modified after package confirmation, you will have to (1) end the date of that package, (2) clone it, and (3) set the new From and To dates for it. If a component of a Confirmed Package record needs to be end dated, the Package itself is required to be end dated to reflect this behavior on the Allow/ Deduct screen.

  Salary effective dated records will not suffer any changes by end dating a Confirmed Salary Package record.

• When the status of the Package Record has been set to Confirmed, the changes performed over the Components will be copied to the Salary and Allow/ Deduct screens.
  • Salary

    On the Salary screen, the record that existed for Salary at the time the Package will become effective will be truncated. A new record, using the prior additional rates with the Salary annual figure calculated as a result of figures entered on this screen, will be created.

    The new Salary record will have From date = 'Package from date', and To date = 'Infinity' or 'next package From date - 1 day'. Overlapping records will be removed.

    The employee Base Rate is ALWAYS set as an annual figure on the Salary screen once a Package has been flagged to status Confirmed.

    Salary records are not allowed to be modified if they correspond to a Salary Package record. To adjust the Salary on an employee with a Salary Package assigned, navigate to the Salary Package screen, and adjust the Total Employment Cost (Top Down) or Salary (Bottom Up) to obtain the expected results.

    It is recommended that you perform maintenance on the additional rates before confirming a Salary Package to ensure that they will be copied across to the new Salary record as required.

  • Allow/Deduct

    On the Allow/ Deduct screen, all A/D codes existing upon Package Confirmation will be truncated with To date = 'Salary Package From date - 1 day', and a new record will be created with provided dates and details.

    If expected to Continue after package ends, an extra record will be created for the A/D code starting one day after the package ends and up to infinity, or one day prior to the start of the next confirmed package if is the case.

    Allowances and Deductions added directly from the Allow/ Deduct screen will not be accounted against the Salary Package, and will not be allowed to be maintained from the Salary Package screen.

  • Other Payment Details

    The Pay Frequency field on the Other Payment Details screen is not allowed to be modified if a Salary Package with status Confirmed currently exists or has been created to become effective in the future.

There are two ways to start defining a Salary Package. Select from the drop-down your choice on how the Package will be defined:

Whenever you create a package or change the value in this field, other fields depending on it will be cleared, and disabled/ enabled accordingly.

This field allows you to select a Salary Package Review Group (based on the Salary Package Review Group screen).

• Upon selection of a Review Group, the Components section at the lower portion of the screen will be automatically populated with values that have been set up on the Salary Package Review Group screen.
• This field is only enabled if 'Salary Package Review Group' has been selected in the Define Package based on field.

This field allows you to identify the model of your Salary Package, whether 'Bottom Up' or 'Top Down'.

Once you have selected a Salary Package Review Group, this field is automatically populated with the value based on that selected Group. Nonetheless, you can still change the model if needed.

Top Down Salary Package Rules

Item	Behavior
Total Employment Cost	This field is editable and mandatory to be populated with a value that is not '0'.
Salary	This field is non-editable .
Annual Taxable Gross	This field is read-only and auto-calculated.
Annual Super Gross	This field is editable. By default, this will be set to Annual Taxable Gross.
A/D Codes Classifications Supported	3, N, Q, S, U, V, W, 0

 

Bottom Up Salary Package Rules

Item	Behavior
Total Employment Cost	This field becomes auto-calculated. This is not allowed to be saved if the calculation is equal to '0'.
Salary	This field is editable.
Annual Taxable Gross	This field is read-only and auto-calculated.
Annual Super Gross	This field is editable. By default, this will be set to Annual Taxable Gross.
A/D Codes Classifications Supported	1, 2, 3, 5, L, N, Q, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, 0

 

This refers to the date that the salary is to be reviewed.

• This will default to the date entered on the Salary Package Review Group option, and can be overridden.
• This date can be used as a reminder for reporting, and selection for the Salary Review Report processing.

You may indicate the status of the Salary Package being created/ updated as 'Draft' or 'Confirmed'.

Setting a Package to 'Confirmed' triggers the record to be written on the Allow/ Deduct and Salary related files.

The Total Employment Cost (TEC) field is editable if a Top Down Package Model is selected. This is calculated as: TEC = Annual Taxable Gross + Sum of Total Amount of Components.

If Bottom Up Package Model is selected, this field is read-only and auto-calculated where the value displayed is based on the calculation TEC = Salary + Sum of Total Amount of Components (except Class 3, U, V, and W).

TEC cannot be empty or set to zero.

This field is disabled and auto-calculated for Top Down Salary Package Model where: Salary = TEC - Sum of Total Amount of Components + Sum of Gross from Components (except N, Q, S and 0)

The value in this field is manually entered for Bottom Up Salary Package Model. Note that the Salary cannot be zero once Bottom Up is selected.

The value in this field is stored as an annual rate on the Salary screen.

This field is read-only and auto-calculated for both Top Down and Bottom Up Salary Package Models.

• If Top Down is used: ATG = [TEC - Sum (Total Amount components (except class S, V, Y and Z where Contract Amount is zero)) * 100] / [100 + Sum (Package Amount or Default Rate from Components (class S, V, Y and Z where Contract Amount is zero))]
• If Bottom Up is used: ATG = Salary - Sum of Total Amount from Components (class 3, U, V, W) + Sum of Total Amount of Components (class 1, L, Y, X; where Payroll Incl/Excl = Include)

When the starting point for a package creation is the employee salary details, then the current annual salary value is to be populated in this field.

When creating a new Salary Package record, it will be retrieved from the current Salary record that is linked to the employee. This is an editable field that will be populated with Annual Taxable Gross value, and allow user modification. Modifying this value will not result in the Contract Amount of any of the components that are % of Linked Earnings or ASG to be adjusted.

If the Salary Package record is defined based on 'Employee Salary Details', the Protected Net (Weekly) amount will be imported from the Salary screen to this field.

Updating the Protected Net on Salary Package (when Confirmed) updates the Protected Net (Weekly) on the Salary screen.

Select from the drop-down list the component/s (e.g. Travel Allowance, Year End Bonus) of the package you are updating or creating.

If any other value in the browse-list has been populated, this field becomes mandatory.

This field cannot have a duplicate entry.

Enter the amount of package for the component you have selected.

You may leave this as '0' if you intend to use the selected component default rate.

Enter the contract amount of the component you have selected.

This allows you to pay the employee up to the entered amount within a year time frame.

Tick this box if you want the contract paid amount to be cleared.

This field is only enabled once the Contract Amount field is populated.

This is the financial contribution made by the employee to Allowance/Deduction code.

This will reduce the Gross Value used to calculate the FBT.

This field is disabled for Classification V.

Values entered here will increase the Gross Value used for the calculation of FBT.

This field is disabled for Classification V.

The Rollover Amount is calculated once the Package has been Saved.

This field is auto-calculated and is read-only.

The Gross is calculated once the Package has been Saved.

The Continue after package ends flag allows you to define the Components the employee is to be paid in case the End date of the current package is reached, and a package to start right after has not been negotiated/defined/confirmed yet.

Tick this box if you want to continue after the package ends.

Whenever an employee has been packaged for a period of time different from infinity, and the package is to stop at a definite period, there will be an A/D Code record created to ensure that the employee will still be paid, even if there is no Salary Package in place.

For any components that have been set to continue after package ends, an additional record will be created with From date = Package end date + 1 day, and To date = '31/12/9999', or next record From date - 1 day (if a future package exists and a package record has been already generated for the component). Any other values are to be inherited from the original package record.

Indicate the Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) type to be applied to your package component.

The FBT Type drop-down facilitates the calculation of the FBT Payable amount. The rates for FBT Type are defined and applied as whole amount multipliers.

This field is disabled when the A/D Classification is Q, S, or V.

This field is auto-calculated and read-only.

The value in this field is calculated based on the selected FBT Type.

This field is auto-calculated and read-only.

This is calculated as: Total = Gross + FBT Payable.

The Total amount for each component as well as Rollover Amount and Gross are calculated once the Package has been Saved.

Indicate if this package component is to be included or excluded in the calculation of the employee's gross, tax and net salary.

This field is disabled for Classifications 3, V, and W.

Indicate the recipient of the component, if applicable.

Recipient and A/D Reference Number can be added to the Salary Package items to flow through to Payroll when the A/D is paid.

Indicate the reference number of the component.

This is the bank's BSB number associated with the employee.

This is the employee's bank account number.

This is the name of the account that the funds are to be deposited. This is usually the employee's name.

This is the text that appears on the payee's bank statement.

If left blank, the employee's ID number is used followed by zeroes to fill the unused space.

Example:

If the employee ID is '001234', it will be filled with: '001234000000000000'.