Your software calculates your employees' average weekly pay for SSP using the payment values you've processed.

Find out below where you can check and reconcile this information.

To check the average weekly earnings in your software, follow the steps below:

1. Double-click the required employee to open their employee record.
2. Go to the Absence tab then select the S.S.P. button.
   

   Start of P.I.W.	The date of the employee's first day of sickness absence. If the employee returned from a period of absence then is off again within eight weeks, it's a linked period of sickness. In this case, this date is for the original start of the leave. NOTE: The default date in this field is your current process date. If the PIW started on a different date, enter it here manually before you continue.
   Payment History table	The table here details the payments you processed for each period in Sage 50 Payroll.
   8 Weeks Average Earnings	If you have information entered in the 8 weeks gross table, the average value appears here. Alternatively, if you've calculated this value yourself, enter it here.
   No. of Payments	The number of payments you processed within the eight-week period.
   Total Payments	The total value of the payments made within the eight-week period.

3. Select OK.

Reconcile the calculation

If you need to reconcile the average weekly pay, use the calculation below.

1. Add up any payments within the eight-week period before the absence.
2. Annualise these payments based on the pay frequency.
   • For example, to annualise two payments for a monthly paid employee, multiply by six
3. Divide the annualised value by 52 to get the average weekly amount.

To see how the calculation works in more detail, ▼ view an example.