Employment Star provides payroll consulting, audits and training for Australian businesses — including complex NDIS and SCHADS award payroll. We find and fix payroll errors, check award and super compliance, and upskill your team so pay runs stay accurate. From $195/hr ex-GST or a fixed-price audit.
We work with employers across Australia — remote-first, with an office in Parramatta, Sydney.
At Employment Star, we understand that managing payroll efficiently is more than just numbers—it’s about ensuring compliance, accuracy, and employee satisfaction. Whether you’re a startup setting up your first payroll process or a large enterprise seeking to streamline existing systems, our Payroll Consulting and Training Services are designed to empower your HR and finance teams with the tools, knowledge, and confidence they need to manage payroll effectively.
Broken shifts, sleepovers, client cancellations and 24-hour care — the award work most providers price themselves out of is the work we do most.
We review your awards, entities and pay cycles first, then quote a fixed scope. You are not buying open-ended hours.
Training runs on your own payslips, rosters and award classifications — not generic worked examples — with audit checklists you keep.
Every audit ends with a written, prioritised list: what is wrong, what it will take to fix, and what to do first.
From payroll setup and system integration through to audits, training and ongoing legislative updates — one partner, not four.
Payroll doesn’t have to be a pain point—it can be a powerful asset. With Employment Star by your side, you gain a partner who simplifies the process, ensures compliance, and empowers your team through expert training.
Our payroll consulting services are tailored to meet your unique business needs. We take the time to understand your organisation’s structure, processes, and pain points to deliver practical and effective solutions.
We help you build your payroll process from the ground up—right from employee data collection to final payslip distribution. This includes choosing the right payroll software, designing payroll cycles, and creating checklists to ensure accuracy and efficiency.
Already running payroll but seeing inconsistencies or errors? We audit in detail to identify inaccuracies, help you correct them, and put preventive controls in place for the future.
Our team helps integrate your payroll systems with existing HR software or accounting platforms, streamlining operations and reducing manual entry errors.
Expert advice on Australian payroll legislation, plus complex payout calculations including long service leave and redundancy.
Hands-on training tailored for payroll teams
Compliance training: superannuation, leave management, terminations
Payroll software training — Employment Hero Payroll (formerly KeyPay), Xero, MYOB, Chris21/iChris, Micropay, Kronos, Deputy and more.
Payroll legislation updates and best practice workshops
Introductory offer: free if you’re on a payroll outsourcing plan with us. Want peace of mind that your current payroll process is compliant and efficient? We run a comprehensive Payroll Health Check to assess your system’s health, identify risks, and set out improvements.
Flat rate: $250 for all other clients.
Starting from $195/hour ex-GST
Simplify your EOFY process with Employment Star. We manage:
Complex leave or redundancy calculations starting from $195/hour ex-GST
Need expert support beyond payroll processing? We offer:
Starting from $195/hour ex-GST
We empower your team through custom training workshops and 1:1 support in key areas such as:
An enterprise agreement only gets approved if every award-covered employee — and every prospective one — would be better off overall under the agreement than under the relevant modern award. That is a payroll question long before it is a legal one. It turns on the rates, penalties, allowances and rosters you actually run, and on patterns of work the Fair Work Commission can reasonably foresee, not on the ones that suit the model.
We build the comparison: your proposed agreement modelled against the award, across your real roster patterns and classifications, so you can see where the agreement holds and where it doesn’t — before you take it to a vote, or before the Commission finds it for you.
For each classification and roster pattern you actually employ.
So you know what the agreement does to your wage bill over its term.
An agreement that passes the BOOT and is then paid incorrectly leaves you exactly where you started.
Keep the legal work with your lawyers. We do the numbers your lawyer needs.
Case study — Rainbow Club
Employment Star took over Rainbow Club’s Employment Hero payroll mid-handover with no gap in pay runs — lodging all outstanding superannuation back to the original implementation, correcting award interpretation errors at the source, automating pay rules in the back end and implementing Payday Super. Engaged May 2026.
Rainbow Club is a not-for-profit network of social swimming clubs for children and young adults with a disability, operating across NSW, QLD, ACT and VIC, with NDIS provider registration.
A structured review of your pay runs, award interpretation, superannuation and STP lodgements to find underpayments, overpayments and compliance gaps — with a prioritised fix list.
Yes. We specialise in SCHADS (Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services) award payroll — classifications, broken shifts, sleepovers, allowances and penalties — and NDIS provider payroll.
From $195/hr ex-GST, or as a fixed-price payroll audit / health check quoted after a short scoping call.
Yes — practical training on Employment Hero payroll processing, award interpretation, STP Phase 2 and Payday Super.
Yes. We quantify the issue, correct the configuration, calculate back-pay and help you remediate compliantly.
