Home featured Featured Finance Featured 1 in 3 organisations make employee payment mistakes regularly Loren Webb August 14, 2019 New data from an industry association has revealed that 1 in 3 Australian organisations admit to making employee payment mistakes every pay run, and the CEO and CFO never know about it. Across 45 per cent of organisations, it’s the employees who alert managers to the errors. The Australian Payroll Association ( Australian Payroll Association ) – Australia’s leading network for payroll training, consulting and advisory – surveyed 601 payroll managers across the country’s big and small businesses, and across myriad industries. The research found that of the 33 per cent of payroll managers admit to making employee payment or entitlement blunders at least once a month, and a further 21 per cent admitted to making mistakes every quarter. Surprisingly, across 45 per cent of these organisations, the employees are the first to alert the organisation about the mistake. In 32 per cent of these organisations, the CEO, CFO or equivalent are not told about the payment errors. The bigger the organisation, the more mistakes made The survey also revealed that the bigger the organisation, the higher the rate of mistakes across employee pay and entitlements. Sixty-nine (69) per cent of organisations with more than 10,000 employees made errors at least every month, compared with 55 per cent of organisations with 1001-5000 employees, 45 per cent of organisations with 500-1000 employees, 24 per cent of those with 201-500 employees, 21 per