Making an adjustment to the year-to-date amount of Qualifying Earnings reported
For a number of reasons such as being late to upgrade or misclassifying pay items you may need to adjust the year-to-date Qualifying Earnings values being reported from 2026/27. Depending on the nature of the cause of the issue you should review your pay items to ensure they are correctly configured going forward, but note a change in QE flag of a pay item does not change the QE value for pays processed against that pay item. The following are the recommended steps to do so from a Sybiz Visipay perspective, any queries associated with the failure to meet Payday Super reporting obligations, if applicable, should be directed toward the ATO.
The Qualifying Earnings value, like all other employee level STP reporting is year-to-date. QE is derived from the associated pay items at time of processing yet it is otherwise autonomous and can be adjusted using a combination of pay items, rather than reversing and reprocessing.
You will require two pay items, one to adjust the non-QE amount up or down and another to adjust the QE amount up or down. In a lot of cases the YTD QE value will be able to be derived from the YTD Super Liability.
