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Preview one person's pay

Work out one staff member's pay for a month without making a pay run, to check a profile or an answer a question.

Payroll · How to · Last checked 2026-10-19

Use this page to see what a pay run would give one person. Nothing is saved.

  1. Open Payroll > Preview one person.
  2. Choose the Staff member.
  3. Choose the Month. You can go one month ahead.
  4. Read the result: Days in the month, Paid days, LOP days, Gross, Deductions and Net pay, then the lists of Earnings, Deductions and Employer contributions, and a panel How this was worked out.

The preview uses today's attendance, leave and rules, as a pay run would. If it fails with "The pay could not be worked out", press Try again. The reason is usually a missing pay profile or a rule not loaded. See Salary structures, components and pay profiles.

If you see "You cannot preview pay", your role does not have this permission, or payroll is switched off for the institution.

Common questions

The preview differs from the pay run.

The pay run was calculated earlier with the attendance, leave and rules of that day. Recalculate the draft run. See Run payroll for a month.

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