PayQuery
PayQuery
For decades, checking whether people were paid correctly meant weeks of spreadsheet archaeology — and a number no one could fully explain. PayQuery rebuilds Australian wage entitlements from the timesheet up, prices every shift against the rules in force on the day, and shows the reasoning behind every figure. The forensic rigour of a specialist, with the working visible on every line.
Every figure in a PayQuery run expands to exactly this — the hours, the rate, the clause, the decision.
The result: forensic work that used to consume a specialist's weeks becomes a process you can run, review and defend — with the reasoning in plain sight at every step. That's not a faster spreadsheet. It's a different way of doing the work.
Upload any Modern Award or enterprise agreement — twelve of the most common are already verified and pricing today, no wait, no extraction cost. Every rate and rule is checked against the source document and approved by a person before it can price a single shift.
Raw timesheets are rebuilt against the rules in force on each date — penalties, overtime, loadings, public holidays, breaks — not sampled, not averaged, not estimated.
Duplicate identities, missing classifications, overlapping shifts and gaps are flagged for a decision. A shift worked at a higher classification prices at that classification's rate automatically — never just flagged and left for someone to price by hand. PayQuery never quietly guesses a figure that changes the answer.
Interest, leave loading, set-off and scenario pricing assemble into a total — with the full audit trail, every assumption recorded, and the source behind every rate.
Most recalculations end at a number. PayQuery ends at a number you can open up — every dollar traced back to the hours worked, the rate that applied on that date, the clause that set it, and the decision that resolved anything unclear. The reasoning is the output, not a by-product you have to take on trust.
Open any total and it unfolds into the shift, the rate, the multiplier and the award clause behind it. No opaque model, no spreadsheet to reverse-engineer — you can show a client, a court or the other side exactly how a dollar was reached.
Awards and agreements change — mid-year variations, version switchovers, historical rates. PayQuery prices each shift against the instrument actually in force that day, so a multi-year claim isn't flattened against today's rates.
Every rule is verified against its source before it can price a matter, every assumption is recorded with its rationale, and the source documents sit behind each rate. Uploaded data is checked against 46 separate data-quality rules before it prices — duplicate records, impossible shifts, unexplained gaps — flagged, never silently absorbed into the total. The scrutiny is built in, so the result stands up to it.
PayQuery isn't limited to a fixed list — upload any Modern Award or enterprise agreement and it's read, checked against the source, and approved by a person before it can price a single shift. Twelve of the most commonly worked awards are already pre-loaded and verified, so those start pricing today with no wait and no extraction cost:
PayQuery isn't ongoing payroll compliance software you point at your own pay run. It's built for the practitioner brought in after the fact — often by someone other than the employer — to establish what should have been paid, on someone else's payroll, in a way that has to survive being challenged by the other side. That's a different job: the output isn't a dashboard for a payroll team to action internally, it's a figure built to be handed to a client, an administrator, a court, or the party on the other side of the matter, with the working attached.
The judgement stays human. PayQuery does the arithmetic and surfaces every assumption; the practitioner makes the calls and approves the result. Where an employer's records are inadequate, the defensible reading resolves in the employee's favour — and PayQuery says so, out loud, in the working.
This page is written for the practitioners who use PayQuery professionally — but if you're an employee wondering whether your own pay is right, there's a direct, no-cost way to ask. Tell us a bit about your job and pay, and we'll set up a time to go through your concerns properly — no documents needed to get started. A person reads every submission — it's confidential, never shared with your employer, and there's no account or sign-up required.
Two years of timesheets for 25 employees: loaded, quality-checked, committed, and priced shift-by-shift against the award — with every judgement flagged, never guessed. This is the actual product, unedited.
We'll walk a real award through PayQuery with you — from raw timesheets to a figure that opens up, line by line, all the way to the clause.