Payroll.

Payroll explained in plain English: payday super, wages, awards, STP and staying compliant as an employer.

4 March 2026Payday super: what changed on 1 July 2026, and whether your payroll is actually doing itPayday super commenced on 1 July 2026. The question is no longer what is coming - it is whether your pay runs are actually doing it. Six checks worth running this month.13 June 2025Minimum wage and award rates: what changes every 1 July, and what payroll has to do about itMinimum and award rates change every 1 July. Here are the current figures, the mechanism behind them, and the three things payroll has to get right.

What we write about here

Payroll goes wrong in predictable places: the 1 July rate change, a classification that was never revisited, super paid on the wrong base. The articles here work through those, because they are the ones that turn into back-pay conversations.

Payroll is unusual among compliance obligations in that errors compound silently. A wrong rate is not one wrong number - it is every pay run, plus super calculated on it, until somebody checks. Which is why most of what we write here is about catching things early rather than fixing them well.

Employment law and award interpretation belong with an HR specialist or an employment lawyer, and we point at one rather than guess. What we cover is what lands in the pay run.