Paying support workers correctly under the SCHADS Award is one of the hardest things an NDIS provider does. Rostery's payroll engine does the interpretation for you, applying the right rates and allowances to every shift so pay runs are accurate and defensible.
How it works
As shifts are completed, the engine reads each one and applies the relevant SCHADS provisions: Saturday, Sunday and public-holiday penalty rates, broken-shift and sleepover allowances, laundry allowances, casual loading and overtime. Every calculation is recorded against the specific award clause it came from, so you have a clear audit trail instead of a black box.
Before money moves, a pre-payroll review lets your team check the full pay run line by line and correct anything unusual. When you're happy, Rostery exports the run to Xero, MYOB or a CSV for whatever payroll system you use.
Why it matters for NDIS providers
Underpayment claims and back-pay corrections are expensive, time-consuming and damaging to staff trust. Manual award interpretation in spreadsheets is where most of those errors creep in.
- Confidence at pay time: penalties, allowances and loadings are applied consistently to every shift.
- A clear audit trail: every figure is tied to the award clause behind it.
- Fits your stack: export to Xero, MYOB or CSV without re-keying data.
What's included
- Full award interpretation. Penalty rates, broken shifts, sleepovers, laundry allowances, casual loading and overtime are calculated automatically.
- Clause-level audit trail. Every calculation records the SCHADS clause it was based on, so pay runs are easy to defend.
- Pre-payroll review. Check the whole pay run and fix anomalies before anything is exported or paid.
- Export to your payroll system. Send finished pay runs to Xero, MYOB or CSV without manual re-entry.
- Reduced underpayment risk. Consistent, rules-based calculations cut the spreadsheet errors that lead to back-pay claims.
Who it's for
SCHADS-Compliant Payroll Engine suits Australian NDIS, disability and aged-care providers of every size — from solo coordinators to multi-site organisations running multiple registered entities. Finance teams, support workers and managers all work from the same live data across the Rostery web dashboard and the carer mobile app, so nothing falls through the cracks between the office and the field.
Getting started
SCHADS-Compliant Payroll Engine is included in your Rostery plan and works the moment your data is in — there's no separate module to buy or set up. Start a free trial to try it on your own workflows, and use Rostery's "Smart Switch" data migration to bring your existing clients, staff, shifts and notes across from your current software in minutes. Our team can walk you through your specific participant types, funding mix and rostering complexity in a quick demo.
