Summary

Rate Groups categorise Rates that apply to different Awards and Employees within your organisation. A Rate Group may have several Rates associated to it.

Procedure

The Rates tab page displays the rates that are associated with a Rate Group. To add Rates to a Rate Group use the Select Rates window. Click Edit | Add or Edit to reach this window.

Using Rate Group Summations

Rate Group Summations consolidate additional payments with an Award Rate (or employee default Rate) to form one consolidated hourly rate total. For example,

• Service allowance
• Higher duties allowance
• Certificate allowance

As there is more than one “over-award” or extra type of payment – the usual method of using Over-Award Rates will not work. Instead, set up the Award Rates, (for example, Grade 1, Grade 2 and Grade 3) with a Rate Calculation of B: Rate Group Summation.

As Rate values can not be specified against calculated rate codes, store the rate code against the Award, for example, Grade 1-A. From this point on, only use the Grade 1 rate code to use as a default against the employee.

The following example explains this principle:

1. Set up a Rate Group called "Additional Payments". We will come back to this later.
2. Set up a Rate Code called "Grade 1" using the Rate Group Summation calculation method.
3. Attach "Grade 1" to the Additional Payments Rate Group. It’s really important to keep your coding consistent here, as it can get a little confusing!
4. Now set up non-calculated Rate Codes for those extra payments:

   Service allowance - SERVICE

   Higher duties allowance - HD

   Certificate allowance – CERT

5. Attach each of these rate codes to the Additional Payments Rate Group.
6. Add these rate codes to the Rates Override section in the employee record to specify the additional payments value.
7. Click Save for the Rates to consolidate into one total value.