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Payroll and labour compliance

Australian payroll: PAYG, super and STP data, built in

The Australia country pack withholds PAYG from the ATO tax scales, works out the superannuation guarantee, and builds ABA bank files and STP data for your sending service. Rates ship as a starting point that you can override and should confirm with your adviser.

  • ATO PAYG withholding
  • Superannuation guarantee
  • STP data
  • ABA file
  • National minimum wage
  • NES leave
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BusinessHRM Country and compliance overview for Australia with the AUD 26.44 minimum hourly wage, 38 hour week, 1.5 times overtime and four weeks of annual leave

Does BusinessHRM support Australian payroll compliance?

Yes. The Australia pack withholds PAYG using ATO Schedule 1 coefficients for scales 1, 2 and 3, no-TFN rates, working holiday makers and study loans, with the 2024-25 and 2026-27 tables loaded. It adds the 12% superannuation guarantee on ordinary time earnings as an employer cost, checks pay against the national minimum wage, applies NES leave and redundancy, and builds an ABA bank file and STP pay event data. STP lodgement goes through your own STP-enabled sending service.

States and territories

All eight states and territories are loaded with their public holidays and long service leave rules. State payroll tax is shown for information and is not calculated.

Australia at a glance

Super guarantee
12% of OTE, quarterly base cap $62,500
Minimum wage
$24.95 an hour; $26.44 from 1 July 2026
Casual loading
25%
Standard week
38 hours, overtime 1.5x
Annual leave
4 weeks
Personal leave
10 days
Family and domestic violence leave
10 days, kept off payslips
STP
Data file only, lodged through your sending service

What the Australia pack covers

Tax, contributions and labour rules on every pay run

  • PAYG withholding

    ATO Schedule 1 coefficients for scales 1, 2 and 3, no-TFN rates and working holiday makers, with the 2026-27 tables loaded.

  • Superannuation guarantee

    12% of ordinary time earnings, with the quarterly maximum contribution base applied, shown as an employer cost on each payslip.

  • Minimum wage and hours

    Salaries are checked against the national minimum wage ($26.44 an hour from 1 July 2026), with a 38-hour week and overtime at 1.5 times.

  • Leave

    Four weeks' annual leave, 10 days' personal leave and 10 days' family and domestic violence leave, which is kept off payslips. Long service leave rules are held per state.

  • Holidays for every state

    Import 2026 national public holidays plus those for each state and territory into your calendar.

Where you set it up, and what it produces

Real screens from a demo workspace. Settings live under Settings, Country and compliance and under Payroll settings, Tax and contributions.

BusinessHRM Country and compliance overview for Australia with the AUD 26.44 minimum hourly wage, 38 hour week, 1.5 times overtime and four weeks of annual leave
Country and compliance for AustraliaThe minimum hourly wage, the 38-hour week, overtime, the 1 July tax year start and four weeks of annual leave.
BusinessHRM payroll Exports page listing bank and statutory files by country, including Australia ABA and STP and Pakistan IBFT, FBR section 149, Annex-C, EOBI and PESSI files
ABA and STP filesAn ABA (Direct Entry) bank file and STP pay event data as a CSV, built from the locked run.

Statutory IDs on each employee profile

  • TFN
  • ABN
  • Super fund
  • Fair Work Information Statement
  • Visa or VEVO check

Stored encrypted, format-checked and masked for anyone without permission to reveal them.

Files BusinessHRM builds for an Australian payroll run

  • ABA bank file
  • STP data CSV to lodge through your STP sending service
  • PDF payslips with PAYG and super

Files are built from a locked pay run on the Exports page. A contribution register of employee and employer amounts per scheme exports to CSV.

How to switch on the Australia pack

  1. 1Open Settings, then Country and compliance, and choose Australia (and the province, state or emirate) for the company or for each office.
  2. 2In Payroll settings, open Tax and contributions and switch the calculations on. They stay off until you do.
  3. 3Add each employee's tax inputs and statutory IDs on their profile, and override any rate the pack ships with if your adviser tells you to.
  4. 4Run payroll in AUD. Every payslip shows the tax and contribution lines, and the export screen builds the bank and statutory files for that run.

Not included for Australia

Direct STP lodgement, SuperStream, state payroll tax calculation and award interpretation.

Not legal advice. Rules marked to verify in the app have not yet been checked against the official source.

Other country packs

All compliance by country How the compliance engine works Payroll HR software in Australia

Australia payroll compliance questions

Does BusinessHRM calculate PAYG withholding?

Yes. The Australia pack uses the ATO Schedule 1 coefficients for scales 1 to 3, no-TFN and working holiday maker rates.

Can it lodge Single Touch Payroll?

Not directly. It builds STP data as a CSV for you to lodge through an STP sending service, and an ABA file for your bank.

Does BusinessHRM interpret modern awards?

No. Award interpretation, SuperStream and direct STP lodgement are not included. Award rates can be set up as pay rates and salary components.

Run Australia payroll with the rules built in

Start free, choose your country and region, switch on tax and contributions, and preview a pay run before anything is paid or filed.

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