Payroll
The Legal Services Award, handled
Generic payroll does not know what a Level 2 Year 3 paralegal is owed. It does not know about Saturday loading on a clerk, or what happens to accrued leave when a graduate becomes a solicitor. Ours does, because we have been running law firm payrolls for twenty years.
Why it is different
Award interpretation is the whole job.
Classifications that match the award
Legal Services Award classifications and year levels, with progression applied when it falls due rather than when somebody remembers.
Loadings and allowances
Overtime, weekend and public holiday loading, and the allowances a generic payroll package will let you forget about.
Leave that keeps up
Accrual, carry-over and cash-out handled against the right entitlement when somebody changes classification mid-year.
Single Touch Payroll, Phase 2
Every pay run reported to the ATO as it goes, with the disaggregated reporting Phase 2 requires.
Payday super
Super calculated and lodged with the pay run, not a quarter later.
It posts to your ledger
Payroll writes straight to LAPM Accounting. No journal to re-key, no month-end reconciliation between two systems that disagree.
How a pay run goes
Timesheet to payslip, in one system.
- Hours and leave come in
Timesheets and leave requests are entered by staff and approved by whoever should approve them.
- The award does the maths
Classifications, loadings and allowances are applied from the Legal Services Award, not from a rate somebody typed once.
- You review the run
Every line visible before anything is committed, with last period beside it so a change stands out.
- Lodge and pay
STP filed, payday super lodged, payslips sent, and the journal posted to your ledger.
$20 per employee / month. No lock-in contract.
Available alongside LAPM Accounting, or on its own. If you would rather not run it at all, our practice management team will run it for you.
Tell us how many people you pay.
We will show you a pay run on your own award classifications, and tell you what it costs to move from whatever you are using now.