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Salary sacrificing super - information for employers
Does salary sacrificing super affect your super guarantee payments?
If your employee is an eligible employee for super guarantee purposes, you are required to make super guarantee payments for them.
You must pay a minimum of 9% of each eligible employee's ordinary time earnings each quarter (up to the maximum contributions base for that quarter). Ordinary time earnings (OTE) is usually the amount your employee earns for their ordinary hours of work. It includes things like commissions, most bonuses, shift-loadings and allowances but doesn't include overtime payments.
For more information about how much super you need to pay, refer to How much to pay and when to pay.
Making salary sacrificed super contributions into your employee's fund may affect your super guarantee obligations in the following ways:
Super guarantee payment is calculated on the reduced salary
The minimum amount of super guarantee you are required to pay in relation to your employee is based on their OTE. As entering into a salary sacrifice arrangement reduces your employee's OTE, it will reduce the amount of super guarantee that you are required to pay.
The salary sacrificed amount counts towards your super guarantee obligations
To enter into an effective salary sacrifice arrangement with your employee, you should have a written agreement which states the terms and conditions of that agreement. If you make the super contributions to an employee's fund under a salary sacrifice agreement, the sacrificed amount is an employer contribution. This means that the salary sacrificed amount counts towards your super guarantee obligation.
If the salary sacrificed super contribution is more than the minimum super guarantee amount you are required to pay (currently 9% of your employee's OTE) then you would not be required to pay an additional amount on top of the salary sacrificed amount.
The terms of some awards or agreements may require an employer to pay a certain amount of super for an employee or may require super to be paid on the employee's pre-sacrifice salary. In these circumstances, salary sacrifice amounts may not reduce the employer's super guarantee obligation as stated in the award or agreement.
Example 3 - continued from example 1
For the purpose of this example, Sally and Zoe's quarterly salaries equal their ordinary time earnings.
Sally and Zoe are both eligible employees for super guarantee purposes, and their employer is required to contribute a minimum amount into their super funds - that is, 9% of their ordinary time earnings.
The super guarantee amount their employer is required to pay for Sally is calculated at 9% of her quarterly salary of $11,250, which is $1,012.50 per quarter or $4,050 per year.
Since Zoë has salary sacrificed $10,000 of her earnings into her super fund, the minimum super guarantee amount her employer is required to pay for Zoë is calculated at 9% of her reduced quarterly salary of $8,750, which is $787.50 per quarter or $3,150 per year.
However, as Zoë's salary sacrificed amount of $10,000 is an employer contribution and is more than the super guarantee amount the employer is required to pay, the salary sacrificed amount satisfies her employer's super guarantee obligation. This means Zoë's employer is not required by law to contribute an amount to her super fund in addition to the salary sacrificed amount of $10,000. Zoe and her employer may agree that her employer will continue to make additional employer contributions equivalent to the super guarantee that would have been payable if not for the salary sacrifice agreement.
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