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.
Select a pre-loaded award or upload an agreement. 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. 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. The scrutiny is built in — so the result stands up to it.
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.
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.