How PaidRight Re-engineered Wage Remediation Projects

How PaidRight Re-engineered Wage Remediation Projects 

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Wage remediation is a critical but complex process for businesses that need to correct historical underpayments. While the concept of remediation is simple, it’s proven to be an understandably challenging process for organisations to undertake. 

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The traditional approach to wage remediation allows for thousands of chances for human-error, that is the contributing factor to projects blowing out in time and cost. 

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At PaidRight, we’ve re-engineered the remediation process by automating 95% of the work. This means businesses spend less time validating the results and more time addressing material variance and ultimately finishing the project faster. 

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How PaidRight thinks about wage remediation

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To understand how PaidRight accelerates remediation projects it’s important to understand the three fundamental steps of completing a wage remediation project. You need to do three things to generate a payment file.

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1. Gather payroll data - The first step in remediation is collecting payroll data from multiple systems, formats, and sources, often spanning years of pay cycles. A single remediation project can require 80-120 data points per calculation, making accuracy and structure critical.
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2. Apply a pay model - Once collected, the data must be translated into a structured model that aligns with awards and enterprise agreements (EAs). This involves applying logic, rule interpretations, and historical pay conditions, an intricate and time-consuming process. 
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3. Analyse variance - The final step is variance analysis: identifying discrepancies between what employees were paid and what they should have received. But the real challenge isn’t just finding errors, it’s understanding why they occurred. 

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Why Is Traditional Remediation So Slow?

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The quick and easy answer lies in the time-consuming and error probe nature of the three steps above. Many businesses traditionally relied on teams in consulting firms to conduct remediation. This approach is slow because:
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• Data is manually cleaned and structured, adding weeks or months to the timeline.
• Award and EA rules are built from scratch, requiring extensive validation.
• Variance analysis is done manually, meaning teams spend more time checking calculations than understanding and fixing the variance.

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How PaidRight is different 

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PaidRight’s platform is built for speed and accuracy. By automating 95% of the remediation process, we eliminate the inefficiencies of manual remediation and allow businesses to focus on variance that has an impact, not validating spreadsheets.

Here’s what makes our approach different:
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1. A built-in data schema with automated transformation tools instantly standardises the format and structure of payroll data, removing the need for manual processing.
2. Pre-built, modern Award & EA logic – Our system includes out-the-box award/ EA rules, eliminating the need to build them from scratch. The rules can be quickly configured to match your organisations’ individual clause interpretation
3. 85+ out of the box variance checks – Automatically identifies and flags discrepancies, meaning no validation of results, just understanding where variance occurred. 

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How we ingest and transform your data faster

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A remediation project is a data project at heart and the saying "Rubbish in - Rubbish out" is highly relevant. Remediation calculations are data projects - it’s not enough to have the data, it needs to be high quality and transformed, ready for use. 
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Collecting data from multiple sources and trying to transform it using spreadsheets takes time, resources and is prone to errors. 
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PaidRight's platform is designed to streamline every step of data management. It features a standardised schema for compliance calculations, and boasts a library of 50 pre-built transformation rules, facilitating rapid data pipeline construction. By efficiently ingesting, assessing, and transforming data, PaidRight accelerates 

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How we build your awards and EA’s faster

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Building awards and enterprise agreements (EAs) from scratch is difficult because of the complexity of pay rules, which involve intricate timelines, numerous rule types, and multiple interpretations of clauses. Pay rules also require careful allocation of entitlements based on specific data points, adding another layer of complexity. 

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Additionally, constructing accurate rate tables is challenging, as rates vary by time, grade, age, and tenure, often requiring thousands of rates per year. This complexity increases the risk of errors in compliance calculations, making the process both time-consuming and error-prone.

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PaidRight makes building awards and EAs fast and easy with pre-built software that simplifies the process. The platform features 12 pre-built filtering criteria that automatically apply pay rules to the correct cohorts with just a click of a button, allowing you to model millions of variations quickly. Rates tables for awards are also prebuilt, and for EAs, the rate tables are easily assembled using our intuitive wizard. This means you can customise and build complex pay structures faster, more flexibly, and tailored to your interpretation, saving time and reducing errors.

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How we analyse variance more effectively

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Analysing variance through spreadsheets and customised tools often means spending more time validating results than analysing the data. Each client requires a unique setup, making the process time-consuming and prone to errors. This inefficiency slows decision-making and takes focus away from understanding and acting on variance.

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PaidRight helps you analyse compliance variance more effectively and at scale. Our platform includes 85 pre-built compliance calculations across five key categories, supported by advanced analytics and workflows. We surface insights quickly, so you can identify issues, spot patterns, and take action with confidence.

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A Smarter Approach to Remediation

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Instead of spending months validating calculations, businesses using PaidRight can focus on investigating and resolving issues. The result? Faster remediation, greater accuracy, and confidence that compliance risks are under control.

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If your organisation is facing a remediation challenge, there’s a better way—PaidRight can help you get it done, faster.