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September payroll rarely goes wrong because the payroll team cannot calculate pay. It usually goes wrong because one part of a staffing change reaches payroll and another part does not.

The first payroll of the academic year can combine new appointments, internal transfers, pay decisions, FTE changes, term-time working patterns, allowances, family leave, long-term sickness, pension updates, cost-centre changes and academy transfers in one pay run.

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