Weekend rates

Pay staff more per hour for weekend work. Saturday and Sunday are set separately, so you can match whatever your award requires.

Seglo doesn't determine award rates. Penalty rates differ by award — the Hair and Beauty Award sets Saturday at 133%, the Animal Care Award at 150% — and they vary again by employment type, classification and time of day. The rates you set here apply to all weekend hours regardless of time of day or whether someone is casual or permanent. Check your own award at fairwork.gov.au and enter the rate that fits.

What it does

A weekend rate is a percentage of a staff member's ordinary hourly rate:

• 100% means no premium. This is the default for both days, so nothing changes until you set it.
• 150% ("time and a half") pays someone on $30/hour $45/hour on that day.
• 200% ("double time") pays them $60/hour.

The rate changes what an hour is worth. It never changes how hours are counted: weekend hours still go toward the weekly overtime threshold, breaks are still deducted the same way, and clock-in rules are unaffected.

How to set it up

For the whole business — go to Pay Runs → Settings → Weekend rates. Pick one of the presets, or type your own Saturday and Sunday percentages. Saving applies it to every staff member who doesn't have their own rate.

For one person — go to Team → Members → the person → Employment → Weekend rates. Leave a field blank to follow the business rate; the business value is shown in grey so you can see what they'd otherwise get.

Blank and 100% are different on purpose. Blank means "use the business rate", so if you later change the business rate this person follows it. Typing 100% means "this person gets no weekend premium" and stays at 100% no matter what the business rate becomes.

Weekend rates and overtime don't stack

This is the one thing worth reading twice.

If someone works overtime on a Sunday, they are paid at whichever rate is higher — the Sunday rate or the overtime rate — not both multiplied together.

With Sunday at 200% and overtime at 150%:

• A normal Sunday hour is paid at 200%.
• An overtime Sunday hour is also paid at 200% — not 300%.

With Saturday at 125% and overtime at 150%, an overtime Saturday hour is paid at 150%, because that's the higher of the two.

This follows standard Australian award practice. If you need a rate that combines both, set the day rate to the combined figure you actually want to pay.

Seeing it on a payslip

Open a pay period and click into a staff member. Under the pay breakdown you'll see "of which Saturday" and "of which Sunday" lines showing the hours and the rate that actually applied.

Those lines are a breakdown of pay already counted above — they aren't added on top. They're there so you (and the staff member, on their own pay page) can see exactly why a Sunday overtime hour paid what it did.

Common pitfalls

An overnight shift belongs to the day it started. A shift from Friday 10pm to Saturday 6am is paid entirely as Friday, with no Saturday premium. If you want those hours paid at the weekend rate, split the shift.

Changing a rate doesn't reprice a finalised pay period. Once a pay period is finalised it's the audit record and its numbers are locked. Correct it with a pay adjustment on the next period rather than changing the rate retroactively.

Changing a rate does reprice a draft period. If a pay period is still open, raising the Saturday rate immediately changes what that period will pay. Check open periods before changing rates mid-cycle.

Labour cost reports will rise. Your team report and daily earnings figures use the same pay numbers, so they'll go up once weekend rates are on. That's correct, not a bug.

Public holidays aren't supported yet. Only Saturday and Sunday have rates. For a public holiday premium, add a pay adjustment to the pay period.

Rates apply to the whole day. Some awards only treat certain hours as ordinary time — the Hair and Beauty Award's Saturday span is 7:00am–6:00pm, and Sunday is 10:00am–5:00pm, with work outside those windows treated as overtime. Seglo applies your weekend rate to every weekend hour and uses your overtime threshold for overtime. If your staff regularly work outside the span, the figures here will need a manual adjustment.

Related

• Pay schedule — when pay periods start and end
• Finalising pay — locking a pay period
• My pay — what staff see