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What we provide funding for
Schools and kura must use pay equity funding to apply the pay equity outcomes and new pay rates resulting from changes to settled collective agreements.
We provide funding for:
- Pay equity funding: employees covered by the pay equity settlements who are on a relevant payroll designation code in EdPay.
- Collective agreement funding: employees who are covered by a settled collective agreement or promulgated Individual Employment Agreement (IEA).
- Tiaki allowance funding: provided where employees are receiving either an occasional or frequent Tiaki allowance.
If your school or kura does not pay covered employees through EdPay, we will contact you for information so we can calculate your funding.
Current settlements
We currently provide funding for the following pay equity settlements:
- teacher aides' settlement
- administration support staff in schools' settlement
- kaiārahi i te reo settlement
- librarians and library assistants' settlement
- science technicians' settlement
- therapists' settlement
- and all settled non-teaching collective agreements since 2019.
How we calculate settlement funding
We use the previous year's payroll data to calculate an estimate of the funding to provide. For schools and kura that open during the year, we base estimates on an existing school or kura of a similar type.
To work out a funding estimate for each employee we:
- take the printed rate for the agreement the employee is on, and
- subtract their pre-settlement hourly rate from it, then
- multiply this total by the number of hours they worked.
We then apply a small amount to account for ACC.
Wash-up adjustment
When we get the confirmed payroll data for the year, we check how accurate our estimates were and if we need to make a funding adjustment. We will let you know through your funding letters prior to each quarterly instalment if we are going to apply a wash-up adjustment to one of your funding instalments. It can increase or decrease entitlement.
Pay equity funding instalment schedule
We pay estimated settlement funding instalments on:
- 1 January for quarter 1
- 1 April for quarter 2
- 1 July for quarter 3
- 1 October for quarter 4
Before you receive a funding instalment, you will get a letter via the Secure Data Portal. This breaks down the funding by agreement type.
We cannot provide a breakdown for each of your staff members.
You can view your funding instalment each quarter in Pourato under the payment type Non-Teach support PE and CA funding.
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Contact
For more information about pay equity claims, contact us.