Selects a default pay as a basis to enter a standard pay. Once accepted a standard pay will generate. You can then add to, modify or delete lines on the pay.

There can only be one standard pay per employee. If an employee belongs to a group, the group standard pay and their standard pay combines.

Default to Add a new pay - start with Empty pay. If the employee's standard pay is re-accessed after it has been saved the function changes to Modify. Standard pays can only be deleted via Delete Employee Standard Pay.

Enter a default Pay Description to print on the pay details report. The description can be changed in transaction entry.

A comment line is available on the next screen that displays on both the pay details report and pay advices.

The number of Tax Periods would usually be set to 1.0 on a standard pay.

Tax Periods would only be changed in transaction entry when an employee receives a pay that covers more than the current pay period such as annual leave.

It is important to enter the number of Tax Periods correctly as they are used for leave accruals with a Calculate by Pay type.

Tip: Use the Calculator (F2) function to calculate.

Usually set to 1.0 on a standard pay.

Allowance/Deduction Periods would only be changed in transaction entry when an employee receives a pay that covers more than the current pay period such as annual leave.

In transaction entry, nominate the number of periods by which all allowances, deductions, employer contributions and bank entries are to be multiplied.

Tip: Use the Calculator (F2) function to calculate.

Select Yes, if payment is required. You can set up a default for this field on the employee's standard pay.

If leave is to be accrued select Yes. If leave is not to be accrued select No. In standard pays, the default selection is No.

New Zealand: When processing a termination pay for New Zealand, if Accrue Leave is set to No, no new leave will be accrued on the timesheet during Check Pays / Process Pays and existing leave accruals will be reduced if this leave has been paid out in the termination pay.

If this pay is to include Termination Pay select Yes. A popup box displays to enter the pay amounts.

Termination details may be changed any time prior to the pay being processed. Select Add a new pay in the function field to have Termination Pay in a separate envelope.

After terminating an employee, do not make any modifications to the employee's leave table in Leave Table Maintenance.

If for any reason an employee is not to be paid for one or more pay periods after this pay, for example, annual leave, select Yes. A date field will display. Enter the date this employee can next have an entry made or a pay processed. This date will automatically update Stop Pay Date on the employee's Masterfile.

This date can be entered on any adjustment or time sheet pay for this employee.

Note: It is not necessary to enter a Stop Pay for a termination pay. This is an automatic function once the termination pay is processed.

No automatic pays will be generated for an employee with a Stop Pay. A warning will display if a transaction is entered for an employee with a Stop Pay. You can select to continue or cancel the transaction. These conditions will continue until the Attaché Catapult or Business Partner date is equal to or past the Stop Pay Date.

For example: On Thursday 03/09 a weekly paid employee is to receive one period's normal pay and two period's leave pay. When entering the transaction for this pay, enter a stop pay date of Friday 18/09. This will ensure that this employee will not be paid on Thursday 10/09 or 17/09. From 18/09 onwards an auto pay may be processed or a time sheet pay entered without warning.

Variations to child support payments must be recorded in the EMS. You can enter these variations into an employee's standard pay. Typically, you would use the No Variation variation in the Employee Standard Pay. Other variations exist and you would normally enter these through a pay variation rather than in a standard pay.

These are the available options:
= No Variation, C = Ceased Employment, A = Advanced Payment, P = Protected Earnings, S = Short Term Absence, D = Deduced Previously, O = Other

Attaché includes this child support variation in the EMS file. Although an employee may have multiple variations on their child support during the month, only the most important for the month will be included in the EMS file. The importance of a variation is ranked from Ceased employment (most important) down to Standard no variation (least important).

Extra Pay (additional payments or remuneration) are added to each employee's pay using allowances set up with a Type of extra pay with or without earner levy. Such payments are taxed at a very low, low, medium or high rate based on the IRD guidelines for earnings. Attaché lets you apply the appropriate rate for each employee.

When creating a new standard pay, D = Default is used as the default extra pay rate.

If STC (Special Tax Rate) has been selected in the Tax Code field of the employee Masterfile, this becomes the default rate for calculating tax on extra pay items. You can select a different rate on the time sheet or standard pay, however the higher of the calculated or selected rate applies.

If the default rate is calculated as Very Low Rate then the number "1" is displayed against the Lump Sum Indicator in the IRD Reconciliation Report and the Employer Monthly Schedule.

To change the extra pay rate for a single employee, choose the appropriate rate from the Extra Pay Rate field.

You may override the pay rate for individual pays by choosing Payroll, Transactions, Timesheets, Create or Modify or Payroll, Transactions, Adjustments, Create or Modify.