When creating or editing a pay element, several options are available to choose from, depending on the specific requirements of the pay element. The tables below detail what impact the option has.

📌Note: A pay element code must be an alphanumeric combination that may also include spaces, -, %, £, $, *, @, <, > and a maximum of 20 characters.

Summary

Code	The name of the pay element that will appear on payslips and reports.
Type	Selecting earning or deduction will alter which side of the payslip the pay element appears on.
Rate	The pay element value.
Quantity	How many quantities of the rate to pay.

General

Paye	Include the pay element in the tax calculation.
NICees	Include the pay element in the employee's NI calculation.
NICers	Include the pay element in the employer's NI calculation.
Use for Average Holiday Pay	Include the pay element in the average holiday pay calculation.
Multiple	Enables the Multiple tab, where the pay element can be a percentage or rate of a collection of other pay elements.
Use for AE Calculation	Include the pay element in the qualifying earnings calculation for auto-enrolment.
Hourly	Used for Gender Pay Gap, NWM and LGPS.
Use for NWM Check	Include the pay element in the national minimum wage calculation.
Holiday Advance	Allows the pay element to continue payments during a period of holiday advance.
Use for Gender Pay Gap reporting	Include the pay element in the Gender Pay Gap report.
Pension	Only available for deduction elements, enables the Pension tab.
Benefit in Kind	Generate class 1 NIC for the applicable benefit. Used with a Vouchers benefit record.
Real-time Class 1A NICs	Use for termination payments and sporting testimonial.
Use for Daily Rate	Include the pay element in the daily rate calculation.
Salary Sacrifice Pension	Only available for earnings elements, enables the Salary Sacrifice tab.
Accomodation	Use if accommodation is included as part of the employee's benefits. Enter the period cost of the accommodation. If the employee does not pay for the accommodation.
Attachable	The pay element is to be included when calculating attachment of earnings.
Not Payable	Prevent the pay element from being paid.
Update Nominal	Include a not payable pay element in the nominal journal.
Print on Payslip	Only available if Not Payable is selected, shows the line on the payslip and reports.
Annual	Used as part of the NWM calculation.
Overtime	Used as part of the NWM calculation.
Carry forward Quantity	If the quantity is changed in amend pay, it will allow it to be carried forward to the next period.
Carry forward Rate	When selected, if the rate is changed in amend pay, it will allow it to be carried forward to the next period.
Use for Gender Pay Gap Bonus reporting	Include the pay element in the Gender Pay Gap report.

Options

Unit of Measure	Set the pay element to be multiplied or divided by a quantity of your choice.
Maximum Quantity/Value	Select either, number of payments or value of payments that are impacted by the quantity entered.

Multiple

Multiplier	The percentage figure to use, or value to multiply by.
Multiple of Rate	Multiplies the pay elements rates selected in the Multiple List by the Multiplier entered.
Percentage of gross	Calculates the Multiplier as a percentage of the pay elements' rates selected in the Multiple List.
Do Not Recalculate	While selected, it will prevent the pay element from recalculating the rate.
Multiple List	Select the pay elements to be included in the pay element rate calculation.

Pension

Pension Provider Format	The format to be used when producing the pension provider export for the pension.
Scheme Type	Select the pension scheme type.
Negative Net Pay Rule	Must have the Stakeholder scheme type. Only select a rule if making the full pension contribution deduction will result in the employee’s pay becoming a negative value.
Qualifying Pension	Allows the pension element to be used by the auto-enrolment wizard.
Additional Voluntary Contributions (AVC's)	Employers' additional contribution settings.
Employee Contributions	A fixed contribution value. If Multiple is selected, a percentage of the pay elements' rates from the Multiple List.
Employee pays net of basic rate tax	Reduces the full member contribution by the equivalent of the basic rate of tax and deducts the reduced amount from the employee’s net pay.
Add Employer NI Saving	For salary sacrifice pensions only. Allows the reduction in employers' NI to be added to the employees' pension.
Employer Contributions	A fixed contribution value. If Multiple is selected, a percentage of the pay elements' rates from the Multiple List.

Nominals

Nominal Update Accounts

Nominal codes that are used when the nominal setup points to pay elements.

Add or remove a pay element from a multiple list

Create a new pay element

Add a pay element to an employee

Create a pension pay element

Set up a salary sacrifice pension scheme

Pay element options and settings