As an employer, the Super Guarantee (SG) legislation requires you to pay superannuation contributions on behalf of your employees. The current SG rate is 9.5% of your employees’ Ordinary Time Earnings (OTE), however this is scheduled to increase to 10% from 1 July 2021.
The scheduled SG increase to 10% will be going ahead. It is legislated to increase by half a percent each year until it reaches 12% in 2025.
The timetable of SG increases is outlined below:
| Date | SG rate |
| 1 July 2020 – 30 June 2021 | 9.50% |
| 1 July 2021 – 30 June 2022 | 10.00% |
| 1 July 2022 – 30 June 2023 | 10.50% |
| 1 July 2023 – 30 June 2024 | 11.00% |
| 1 July 2024 – 30 June 2025 | 11.50% |
| 1 July 2025 onwards | 12.00% |
As an employer it’s important to ensure you pay super at this new minimum rate as there are financial penalties for missed or late SG payments.
How much to pay?
SG is the minimum super an employer must pay their employees. From 1 July the minimum super that must be paid to an eligible employee will be 10% of their ordinary time earnings – the amount an employee earns for their ordinary hours of work.
To work out how much you need to pay your employee, calculate the employee’s OTE for the quarter and multiple by the SG rate.
When to make SG payments?
You can make SG payments weekly, fortnightly, monthly or quarterly. There are deadlines for quarterly payments.
| Quarter | SG payment due date |
| Q1 - 1 July to 30 September | 28 October |
| Q2 - 1 October to 31 December | 28 January |
| Q3 - 1 January to 31 March | 28 April |
| Q4 - 1 April to 30 June | 28 July |
High income earners
For high income earners, it’s important to know that each year the government sets a quarterly cap on the amount of an employee’s income on which their employer must make SG contributions.
This amount is called the maximum super contribution base (MSCB) and it’s indexed to average weekly ordinary time earnings (AWOTE), so it changes every financial year.
For 2021-22 the maximum super contribution base has increased to $58,920 per quarter.
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