Running Payroll
6 articles in Running Payroll
Calculating a single payslip
Most of the time you calculate a whole batch. Calculating one payslip is for the exceptions — the employee whose record you just fixed, the late amendment, the joiner added after the run started.
Read article →Paying a salary change that starts in the middle of a cut-off
When an employee's salary changes partway through a payroll cut-off, KAMI can pay the old rate up to the change and the new rate from the effective date onwards. This is called mid-cycle wage change.
Read article →Payslip tax details explained
Income tax on a KAMI payslip is not this period's pay multiplied by a rate. It is an annual tax, estimated across the year and apportioned to the period — which is why the tax line moves when nothing…
Read article →Prorated pay for joiners and leavers
Anyone employed for only part of a payroll period is paid a proportion of it. Proration is a small number of employees every cycle and a disproportionate share of payroll errors, because it is the…
Read article →Running a payroll batch cycle
A payroll run takes a period of attendance and turns it into payslips you can check, approve and pay. This is the process end to end, and the points in it that are hard to undo.
Read article →Viewing and validating payslips
The Payslips tab is where a payroll run is actually checked. Validating well is the difference between catching a wrong figure now and explaining it to an employee after payday.
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