Payroll analytics
What payroll costs, what is coming, compensation plans and budgets, and how pay compares across locations, departments and peers.
Payroll › Analytics shows payroll cost in totals and medians. Only people who can run or approve payroll and read private pay details can open it. It never shows a manager anything, and every figure is drawn from people you can already see in the pay register.
Analytics has three tabs:
- Overview: the last salary processed, the upcoming salary, revisions taking effect in the next three months, and a compensation summary by department and by location for a financial year. Planned vs actual compares each month’s planned cost with the released run’s cost.
- Planning: the next twelve months of cost, with people joining and leaving, split into fix pay, bonus and others. Bonus is the bonuses still pending, in the month they are due to be paid. New budget estimates what new roles will cost from what people in the same designation and experience earn today, and saves the estimate under a name. Saved budgets fold under the table.
- Compare: opens on your three biggest locations. Each shows its people and the year’s planned cost side by side. Under them, Pay against the company shows each designation’s pay at those locations against the company median, with By experience in a fold. Switch Compare by to Departments, or to One person to see where one person’s pay sits among people with the same designation.
Analytics starts after your first released run. Until then, planned vs actual shows only the planned line.
Experience is prior experience plus time here. HR records prior experience on the person’s Job tab, or in the employee import’s “Prior experience (months)” column. People without a prior value count their time here only and are marked “tenure only”.
Groups with fewer than three people are not compared, so no one’s pay can be worked out from a median.
Coming Soon
A full guide to each view, with worked examples.