How Can I Set Up Awards, Classifications or Pay Rate Groups?

You can use Awards, classifications, and Pay Rate Groups in Lightning Payroll to organise employees and share common pay rates. These tools are useful whether you need formal awards, internal classifications, or simply grouped pay rates.

Where to find them: Open Company >> Awards and Company >> Pay Rate Groups.

Awards: Use this area to store the name of an award, agreement, or internal classification structure. Only the name is required.

Pay Rate Groups: Use these to create shared classifications and shared pay rates that can be assigned across multiple employees.

Typical setup

1. Create an award or classification heading if you want one.
2. Create a pay rate group for the role or grade.
3. Add the pay rates that belong to that group.
4. Assign employees to the relevant group.

Pay rate options

• Normal: Uses a multiple of the employee hourly rate.
• Special: Uses a fixed dollar amount.
• Units: You can use Hours or another custom unit such as KMs or Buckets.
• Overtime: Tick Overtime? if the rate represents overtime or another non ordinary earning type.

If you only want labels on payslips, you can also assign the award or classification name directly to an employee under Employees >> Pay Settings.