The Australian payroll landscape is shifting. As you will be aware, the Australian Government is introducing Payday Super legislation. Starting 1 July 2026, employers will be required to pay Superannuation Guarantee (SG) contributions on the same day they pay salary and wages. For payroll professionals, this is a reform that moves us away from the traditional quarterly cycle to a real-time environment. A s part of this reform, payroll software must be capable of capturing and reporting QE (Qualifying Earnings) in every Single Touch Payroll (STP) submission from July 1st 2026.
The STP reporting changes required to capture QE will be deployed with Jobpac Release R2026.2.0.
Jobpac’s STP changes in this release have passed the ATO’s rigorous test scenarios and achieved fully audited certification from the ATO.
Important: Though Jobpac is STP QE compliant with this release, you MUST NOT activate QE reporting prior to the FY27 Financial year. The ATO advises that you should activate QE for STP “as soon as possible” AFTER the FY26 Financial year is closed. We advise that you activate QE for STP as soon as possible after you have completely finalised FY26 Payroll Reporting, including completing all prior year payroll adjustments, after Rolling Payroll into FY27, and after finalising FY26 STP Income Statements. This is important because the reporting of STP Ordinary Time Earnings (OTE) for FY26 will be deactivated upon the activation of STP QE reporting for FY27.
When you are ready to commence reporting QE in FY27, based on the guidance in the important note above. The System Parameter OZEDI Filed# 5, Starting Position 12 should be set equal to ‘Y’ as shown below.
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