Pay item groups in PayTek

Pay item groups were introduced into PayTek from v10 to greatly increase the flexibility of the program in 3 areas.

In each case the pay item group determines which pay items are included in the calculations.

So if you use any of the 3 features you must use a pay item group.

TIPS

You can create as many pay item groups as you need but the fewer the better to avoid confusion.

Give each group a name referring to where you are using it in PayTek.

EXAMPLE

This is the pay item group used by the Superleader fund above. When you print a report for this fund, it will calculate the superannuation amounts for each person as follows.

Mary got paid the following in the month

ORD $2200
SL $150
CAR $250

Her superannuation amount would be (2200 + 150) * 9%. (PayTek has determined that the CAR allowance is not subject to super because it is not included in the pay item group.)

QUESTION

How do I edit the pay item groups?

ANSWER

When you add a new pay item or edit one you can quickly add it to the appropriate pay item groups. You can also edit a pay item group from the Setup menu (see graphic above showing the screen for editing the Superannuation pay item group).

QUESTION

Why does my file contain a lot of pay item groups I have not entered?

ANSWER

Your pay item groups’ file may look like the following (assuming no custom reports are defined).

When you upgraded your file from v9 to v10, PayTek created these pay item groups automatically to preserve the information used in v9.

Pay item group ‘1-Superannuation’ was created from the superannuation funds, ‘2-6’ were created for the custom reports (if necessary) and ‘7-Percentage of Leave Accruals’ was created for the percentage of leave accrual calculations.

These pay item groups can sit on file without affecting anything. If you want to tidy them up you can -

1. Rename a pay item group not used (say 2) to “Custom reports”.

2. Set the pay item group for every custom report to “Custom reports”

3. Delete pay item groups 3,4,5,6.