Premiums

Premiums#

For: Admin

Premiums are the percentage uplifts you pay for working an unsocial hour — Sunday, a public holiday, or the night band. They sit alongside the overtime tiers on the work rule, and a single field decides whether they add together or whichever is highest wins.

What it does#

Three premium fields and one stacking choice:

  • Sunday premium. Multiplier applied to hours worked on a Sunday — typically 1.5×.

  • Holiday premium. Multiplier applied to hours worked on a date flagged as a public holiday under Holidays. The holiday’s own multiplier override (if any) takes precedence over the rule default.

  • Night premium. Multiplier applied to hours worked inside the night band (the night-start and night-end times you set on the rule). Common values: 1.25× for general night work, higher for the Swiss ArG (Arbeitsgesetz, Swiss labor law) night band — see Swiss night-work compensation (ArG 17b).

  • Premium stacking mode — the dropdown that decides what happens when more than one premium applies to the same hour:

    • ‘Additive’ — premiums sum. An hour worked on a Sunday inside the night band gets both uplifts. Sunday 1.5× + night 0.25× → 1.75×.

    • ‘Max’ — only the highest premium applies. Same hour, same rule: 1.5× (the higher of the two).

When it kicks in#

Premiums are calculated on submitted time entries, after the overtime tiers (Overtime tiers) have been applied. The order is:

  1. Tier the hours (base, OT tier 1, OT tier 2) using the daily and weekly thresholds.

  2. For each tiered hour, determine which premiums apply (Sunday? holiday? night?).

  3. Apply those premiums per the stacking mode.

  4. Multiply by the base hourly rate.

So tiers and premiums multiply independently — a Sunday-night overtime hour on an additive rule ends up at base × OT × (1 + Sunday% + night%).

How it shows in the app#

  • Timesheet. Open a submitted row to see the per-hour breakdown — which premiums applied, what the stacking mode produced.

  • Payroll export. Each premium flows to its own pay code, so the payroll provider doesn’t have to redo the math.

  • Shift detail. A shift that falls inside the night band, on a Sunday, or on a holiday is tagged with the matching badges on the calendar — that’s how you know a premium will trigger before the shift is even worked.