Adjust normal payments to accommodate statutory pay using Make Up Basic

Summary

How to use the Make Up Basic feature to adjust an employee's pay, to account for statutory pay in Sage 50 Payroll.

Description

When you pay one of your employees with a statutory payment, you can adjust their normal payments.

NOTE:

Do you use NHS pensions as part of the Pensions Module? If so, there are specific steps to take to record pensionable hours and reduce the salary for an employee who's on statutory leave. Find out more in the NHS Pensions - common questions article.

Resolution

When you process statutory payments, there are multiple options how to process normal pay alongside this.

Depending on the amount or type of normal pay you need to process, there are different ways you can process this in Sage 50 Payroll.

Process normal pay, with the statutory payment included

Your company policy may be that your employees receive their normal gross pay when on statutory leave.

To do this, combine the statutory payment with other pay to match the employee's normal gross salary.

Your software makes it easy for you to process this, with the Make Up Basic feature. For help with doing this, ▼ click here.

The Make Up Basic option lets you pay the employee their normal gross pay, with their statutory payment included as a part of this.

NOTE:

Avoid using Make Up Basic to adjust an employee's salary if they were partially absent during the period and you're reducing their pay.

To use the Make Up Basic option to adjust their payments so the employee receives their full normal pay, follow the steps below:

Go to Employee, select the required employee.
Select Payroll then Enter Payments.
Enter the full standard salary that you want to pay your employee.
Select the Summary tab then ensure the statutory payment is correct.
Click Make Up Basic then Yes.

Once you've clicked Yes against the correct payment, the program adjusts the hours for that payment. The Total Gross Pay shows their normal payment value.

When the employee is no longer receiving the statutory payment, you must reset the payment. You can either manually re-enter the employees normal gross pay, or you can use The reset payments wizard.

Pay only for the hours worked, along with the statutory payment

This occurs, for example, if an employee was off sick for a week, but they worked for the remaining part of the month.

Process their statutory sick pay plus their normal hourly rate for the hours they did work.

Enter the statutory leave as normal.
Go to Employee, select the required employee.
Select Payroll then Enter Payments.
For the required payment types, change the number in the Hours/No column to the number of hours worked then press Tab.

Pay the statutory payment only

For example, a weekly paid employee is on paternity leave for two weeks. As they've done no work in the pay period, they're due to receive the statutory paternity pay only.

Go to Employee, select the required employee.
Select Payroll then Enter Payments.
Change the number in the Hours/No column to zero for all relevant payment types.

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Solution ID: 200427112204300
Last Modified Date: Wed Mar 04 10:10:37 UTC 2026
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