Salary Class

Selection field for the allocation of salary class per employee. The recorded salary class will be printed on the Paycheck. If your company has no wage classes, you can leave this field blank, of course. You can also record here your own internal salary classes.

Example of wage classes in accordance with LMV BAU:

C = Construction workers

Construction workers without specialized knowledge

B = Construction workers with specialized knowledge

Construction workers with specialized knowledge without construction professional cards promoted by the employer from wage class C to class B because of good qualifications. In case of a position change to another construction firm, the workers keep the wage class division B.

A = Construction skilled workers

Skilled construction workers without professional cards, however:

1. with one of the SVK recognized course certificate or

2. expressly recognized by the employer as skilled construction workers. In case of a position change to another construction firm, the workers keep the wage class division A or

3. with one of the SVK as not to wage class division Q recognized foreign certificate of proficiency.

Q = Qualified skilled construction workers

Skilled construction workers like bricklayers, transport route builders (road builders), etc., with a SVK recognized professional certificate (Swiss certificate or equivalent foreign certificate of proficiency) and at least three years of experience on construction sites (professional training time counts as work).

V = Foreman

Skilled construction workers who graduated from a SVK recognized foreman school with success or are appointed by the employer as foremen.

Assign base wage

Base wages can be assigned automatically (in accordance with the cantonal requirements or corresponding GAV guidelines). To do this, you need to open the ‘Salary class’ and the ‘Salary Step’ in tab ‘Job’ and set the new field ‘Assign base salary’ to ‘automatically’. With this function a possible base salary is immediately assigned to the employee.

Example:

The employee is switched from salary class A to wage class B and remains in the salary Step A12. SwissSalary checks if a corresponding base salary is recorded in the base salary matrix and immediately increases the value in the ‘Salary Amount’ field for the given employee, provided that the ‘Assign base salary’ value for wage class B and wage level A12 was set to ‘automatically’.

Any additional wage component operations or rounding's can be carried out manually right in the ‘Salary Amount’ field.

The new base salary can be imported in the ‘Base salary’ table using an Excel spreadsheet and assigned to the employee with a push of the button.