Process a Pay Run With JobKeeper Payments

Process Timesheets With JobKeeper Transactions
- Where you are paying your employee their normal salary or wages
- Where your employee has been stood down
Top up Your Employees' Pay to the Value of the JobKeeper Payment

Process Timesheets With JobKeeper Transactions

Where you are paying your employee their normal salary or wages

Employees paid $1,500 or more per fortnight

For employees where you are paying them their normal salary or wages, and they are paid $1,500 or more per fortnight, you can pay these employees in CloudPayroll as normal.

Employees paid less than $1,500 per fortnight

For employees where you are paying them their normal salary or wages, and they are paid less than $1,500 per fortnight, you can pay these employees in CloudPayroll as normal, and then use the Top Up Allowance upload tool to top their salary or wages up to the value of the JobKeeper Payment.

This will automatically add the TUA pay element with the value of the top up to your employee's timesheet. See the Top Up Your Employees' Pay to the Value of the JobKeeper Payment section below.

Where your employee has been stood down

For an employee who has been stood down, you should remove any entries from their timesheet that will not be paid to your employee during this period.

Note: You can remove these entries directly from the employee's timesheet template to save you having to remove the entries each pay. However, if you do remove entries from your employee's timesheet template, you will need to remember to add these entries back once the JobKeeper scheme has ended.

You then require two additional pay elements on your employee's timesheet.

The C19HRS pay element to calculate your employee's leave.
The TUA pay element to pay your employee the JobKeeper Payment.
See the Top Up Your Employees' Pay to the Value of the JobKeeper Payment section below.

Your employee is entitled to accrue leave as if they are working, as per Fair Work Australia's Business closures during coronavirus information page.

In order to accrue leave for this period, you must first set up a new pay element.

Select the link below to view how this pay element should be created and how to add this pay element to the timesheet template:

C19HRS

Note: If you have chosen not to add the C19HRS pay element to your employee's timesheet template as per the setup instructions in the JobKeeper Leave Accrual article, you must add this pay element to your employee's timesheet each time you pay this employee.

To add the C19HRS pay element to your employee's timesheet each time:

In CloudPayroll, go to Payroll > 2. Enter.
Select the employee you would like to add the C19HRS pay element to.
The employee's Timesheet Entry page displays.
In the Add a new transaction section, in the Qty field (green highlighted field), enter the usual working hours for the pay period for this employee.
Select the C19HRS - COVID-19 Regular Hours Accrual pay element from the Description dropdown list.
Note: Leave the Rate field blank.
Click +Add.
The Timesheet Template Entry page displays.
Select Save to save the entry to the timesheet.

A new entry for the Leave Accrual hours displays on the Timesheet Entry page.

Now you are ready to use the JobKeeper Top Up Allowance upload tool to top up your employee's pay to the value of the JobKeeper Payment. Follow the instructions in the Top Up Your Employees' Pay to the Value of the JobKeeper Payment section below.

Top Up Your Employees Pay to the Value of the JobKeeper Payment

Once you have added and updated all the timesheets for your employees, you can then use the JobKeeper Top Up Allowance upload tool to top up any employee's pay to the value of the JobKeeper Payment, if the employee's pay is less than the value of the JobKeeper Payment.

Note: In order to use the JobKeeper Top Up Allowance upload tool, you must first set this up and adjust the pay element for the JobKeeper Top Up Allowance upload tool. See the JobKeeper Top Up article.

In CloudPayroll, go to Payroll > 2. Enter.
Select the Top Up Upload sub-menu.
In the Top Up Allowance Upload section, in the Minimum Wage Rate field, enter either:
- 750 for Weekly
- 1500 for Fortnightly
- 3250 for Monthly*
Select Set Rate to apply the rate.
In the Actual Hours Worked field in the table, enter 1 for each eligible employee and select Recalculate.

The minimum gross pay is recalculated.
Select Upload Top Up on Timesheet to add the top up value to each employee's timesheet.
The Enter Timesheets page displays a success message and the TUA - JobKeeper Payment pay element has been added to each to the employee's timesheets.

Note: The example above includes an employee who is paid more than the value of the JobKeeper Payment. An entry with the TUA pay element of $0.00 will be added to their timesheet.
It is up to you if you choose to include an employee who is paid more than the value of the JobKeeper Payment in the JobKeeper Top Up Allowance upload tool calculations. You can deselect this employee before you complete the calculations.