Under 18s Super
Under 18s Super
You do not need to pay Superannuation Guarantee for employees aged under 18 if they work less than 30 hours in a week. To see more information on this, please click here.
To enable this threshold in CloudPayroll, go to Setup > Organisation > Defaults and scroll down to the superannuation section, where you can enable Under 18s Superannuation.
Please ensure the employee's date of birth on their Personal Details page in CloudPayroll is correct. If it is not, superannuation may not calculate correctly.
How an employee's superannuation is calculated will depend on how often they are paid. If your employee is paid under a weekly pay cycle, CloudPayroll will automatically not calculate superannuation on hours worked under the 30hour threshold, so you will not need to make any adjustments.
For fortnightly pay cycles, as this is a weekly threshold and CloudPayroll does not record the actual days an employee works, a 30hour per fortnight calculation rule is used. If we applied a 60hour rule, CloudPayroll would not know whether the hours were worked evenly across the fortnight (30 hours + 30 hours), or whether they were worked as 25 hours in one week and 35 hours in the other. In the latter case, superannuation would only apply to the second week. The 30hour per fortnight rule ensures the minimum legal requirements are met in this situation.
A new report has been added to CloudPayroll to assist with these calculations for fortnightly and monthly payrolls. This report can be found by going to Reports > Payroll > Payroll Hours for Superannuation.
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