If you don't pay your employees monthly, you may need to process a Week 53 at the end of the tax year. For the 2023/24 tax year, this occurs if your regular pay date falls on 4 April or 5 April 2024.

You must not avoid processing a week 53 pay run by setting a different process date to your regular pay date. If you've already done this, you must correct it.

 NOTE: To find out more about week 53, visit our how to identify and process week 53 guide.

Reprocess

1. Back up your data.
2. Restore a backup from the last period before the week 53 was due.
3. Check the Last Updated date, ensure it is set to the last period before week 53 was due.
4. Click Payroll then Change Process Date.
5. Set the process date to your next pay date within week 53.
6. Process the payments as normal and update records.
7. Submit an FPS as normal to provide the week 53 values to HMRC.

If you'd already processed any periods in the new tax year, you must reprocess these now using the correct regular pay date. If any employee's tax codes change for the new tax year, you need to update these.

Once complete, compare the net pay on the new payslips to what you've actually paid the employee.

If you identify any over or under payment, you need to account for this. For help with this, visit our can I correct a mistake in the next pay period guide.

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