How to add a specific Pay Rate to an individual

If you have certain staff members who receive a different rate of pay to the default shift rate, you can assign this in their personnel record. This will mean that when they are added into a shift, the rate in their personnel record will ALWAYS override the value of the shift. 

In RotaMaster, the rates assigned to the individual are called Pay Rate Patterns. The first thing you need to do, is create the Pay Rate Pattern. Click here for how to do this.

Once you've created the Pay Rate Pattern, you then need to assign it to your staff member. To do this go to Personnel > Personnel Manager 

Double Click on the staff members name to open their record and then go to Finance Details:

You can then enter a Pay Rate Group Pattern in the Pay per shift box:

If the Pay per shift box shows "Person has contract" as below:

This means that they have a Role Group. When a person has a Role Group, they can still have individual Pay Rates and these can vary dependant on the role. Click here to find out more about this.