Payday Super deadline calculator

For wages paid from 1 July 2026, the employee’s fund must receive the super guarantee contribution, with the information it needs to allocate it, within 7 business days after payday.

For the first contribution for a new employee, the first contribution to a new fund after an existing employee changes funds, and the first contribution for someone you rehire. Their later paydays are back to 7 business days.

Any day except a Saturday, a Sunday, or a public holiday for the whole of any Australian state or territory. A state-wide holiday anywhere in Australia is skipped even if you don’t operate there. A holiday in only part of a state, such as Royal Hobart Show Day, is still a business day.

Melbourne Cup Day and Western Australia’s King’s Birthday are observed on a different date in some regional areas, and the Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve holidays in some states cover only the evening. It isn’t settled whether these count as whole-of-state holidays, so the calculator counts them as business days and shows the later date they would give. Paying by the earlier date is on time either way.

A payment made outside the employee’s regular pay cycle, such as a bonus, commission or back pay, is due 7 business days after the next regular payday, together with that payday’s super.

If a later payday’s due date falls before an earlier payday’s extended due date (for example, a new employee’s first and second paydays), the later payday’s super is due on the extended date too.