Payslip, 10 to 23 August 2026
Payslip
One fortnight for a cafe supervisor paid by the hour, with weekend rates, a union deduction and a salary sacrifice. Half of a payslip is legally required; the other half is what stops the questions.
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- Employer band
- Trading name, legal entity, ABN and the payroll address, repeated on both pages so a single sheet still identifies the employer.
- Period ending, paid on, gross, net
- The four figures an employee checks against their bank app before reading anything else.
- Employee details
- Name, employee number, classification level, employment type and start date, which together decide which rates apply.
- Paid into
- The bank account, the pay cycle and the award the classification comes from.
- Earnings table
- Ordinary hours, Saturday and Sunday penalty lines and an allowance, each with hours, rate, this pay and year to date, totalling to gross.
- Deductions table
- PAYG withholding, salary sacrifice and union fees, each named with who receives it, and a total.
- Net pay summary
- Gross, less deductions, and the figure that lands in the account, on its own so it cannot be misread.
- Superannuation
- Fund and identifier, member number, the contribution and the rate it was worked out on, the year to date, and when it goes to the fund.
- Leave balances
- Annual, personal and long service leave with hours accrued, hours taken and the balance carried, in hours rather than days.
- If something looks wrong
- Who to email, the correction timeframe, and the most common cause, which is an unapproved shift in the rostering system.
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What makes this document work
Every rate is shown, not just the total
Sixty two ordinary hours, eight at the Saturday rate, six at the Sunday rate and a supervisor allowance, each with its own hours and dollar rate. That is what makes the gross checkable against a roster.
Year to date runs beside every line
A second money column on the earnings and deductions tables answers the questions people actually ask a payroll officer, which are almost never about this fortnight.
Superannuation gets its own section
Fund, unique superannuation identifier, member number, the rate applied to ordinary time earnings and the date the money has to reach the fund. Most payslips reduce that to a single number.
Questions people ask
What has to be on an Australian payslip?
Employer name and ABN, employee name, the pay period, the date of payment, gross and net, any loadings, penalty rates, allowances or bonuses, each deduction with who it went to, and the superannuation contribution with the fund.
When does a payslip have to be issued?
Within one working day of the pay day, even if the employee is on leave. It can be given on paper or electronically, and electronic is fine as long as the employee can print it.
Do leave balances have to be on the payslip?
No. Balances are good practice rather than a requirement, though an employer does have to tell an employee their balance when asked. This example prints annual, personal and long service leave with what accrued and what was used.
Why is the employer superannuation not taken out of the net pay?
Because it is paid on top of wages, not out of them, so it never appears in the deductions table. The salary sacrifice line is different: that is the employee choosing to send part of their own pay to the same fund.
Why does the payslip show which account the pay went to?
Because it is the fastest way to catch a wrong or stale account. This payslip has a paid into line under the employee details, showing the account the transfer went to. Staff who have recently changed banks check that line first, and it settles most missing pay queries without payroll opening anything.
What should a payslip say if something looks wrong?
Who to contact and by when. This payslip closes with exactly that, naming the step to take and the deadline for raising it. In hospitality, where hours vary every fortnight, a named contact on the document turns a resentful conversation on shift into a query that gets fixed in the next run.
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