Salary types explained
You will know what Monthly, Fixed and Percentage mean on a driver record, how trip-based pay is added on top, and which combination fits the way you actually pay drivers.
A driver record has two pay settings. Salary Type with Salary Amount is the regular wage. Trip Based Salary Type with Trip Based Salary Amount is pay earned per booking. A driver can have one, the other, or both. Payroll reads the first every month; bookings read the second every trip.
Salary Type
- There is no hourly salary type. Overtime and extra hours are handled through Adjustments on the booking (extra hours, extra kms) or as additions in payroll.
- Leave Salary Type blank for a driver paid only per trip.
Value | What Salary Amount means | Typical use |
|---|---|---|
Monthly | A monthly wage; payroll prorates it by paid days, with loss of pay (LOP) for unmarked absence where attendance is used | Office staff and salaried drivers |
Fixed | A fixed amount per pay period that is not prorated by attendance | Retainers, helpers paid a flat sum |
Percentage | A percentage of the revenue of the bookings the driver ran, worked out from the trips in the month | Drivers paid a share of freight |
Trip Based Salary Type
When a driver with a trip-based type is assigned to a booking, the booking’s profit panel shows a Driver Payments figure worked out from the rule, and the amount accrues to the driver’s balance as trip pay. Payroll later lists it as Trip based salary already paid if it was paid through Employee Payments, so it is not paid twice.
- The list of trip-based types offered on the form, where available, includes rules such as a fixed amount per trip, an amount per kilometre and a percentage of freight. Open the dropdown on your form to see the exact names your company has.
- Trip Based Salary Amount is the rate that goes with the rule: an amount, an amount per km, or a percentage.
- A trip-based driver with no Salary Type is paid only when trips are completed, which the payroll run shows as a net of trip pay minus advances.
Combinations that work
How you pay | Salary Type | Trip Based Salary Type |
|---|---|---|
Fixed monthly wage only | Monthly | blank |
Monthly wage plus a trip allowance | Monthly | Amount per trip |
Pure per-trip or per-km | blank | Amount per trip or per km |
Share of freight | Percentage | blank |
Flat retainer plus share of freight | Fixed | Percentage |
Where the figures show up
- Drivers list: Salary Type and Trip Based Salary Type columns, and the Current Balance that trip pay accrues to.
- Booking profit panel: Driver Payments as one of the costs that make up Profit.
- Payroll › Payroll: Salary, Trip based salary already paid, Advance paid and Advance given back in the Transactions column, then Gross, Additions, Deductions and Net.
- Driver Statement and Driver Run Sheet reports: trip pay per booking.
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