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How to pay workers compensation (Work Cover)

Pay workers compensation

This article will demonstrate how to pay your employees while they are under workers compensation.

1. Create a new pay category - Create a new pay category and call it Workers Compensation (or WorkCover).  You'll be able to use this pay category for any employee in a similar situation in the future. To create a new pay category, please refer article "Pay Categories".





2. Set up the affected employee 

  • Go to the affected employee's employee record/pay rates page
  • Click Pay Rate and untick the "Show in pay run" box next to their default/usual pay category




  • Scroll down the page until you see the new Workers Compensation pay category
  • Enter the hourly rate and number of hours you'll be paying against this pay category each week and tick the box to "Show in pay run"



  • Scroll down and hit Save.