AwardIQ — Award intelligence for payroll systems

Understand Modern Awards
with certainty.

Calculate award pay, investigate payroll outcomes, and understand Modern Award rules — in one platform.

Deterministic award calculations. AI‑assisted investigation. Clause‑backed explanations.

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Trusted by payroll teams, compliance professionals, and payroll software platforms.

Award Pay Calculator
Award
Classification
Shift
Total Pay $287.40
Base $192.00 Penalty $95.40
Award Rule Explorer
Compliance Dashboard
2,847
Records analysed
23
Risks flagged
High
Medium
Low

The Challenge

Modern Awards are complex to interpret.

Australian Modern Awards contain hundreds of clauses covering pay rates, overtime, penalties, allowances, breaks, and classification levels.

For payroll teams, employers, and advisors, interpreting these rules correctly can be time‑consuming. Mistakes can create serious compliance risks.

There are more than 120 Modern Awards covering millions of Australian workers.

Many organisations struggle with questions such as:

Did we pay this shift correctly?
Which award rule applies here?
Are there compliance risks hidden in our payroll data?
How do we explain payroll outcomes to auditors or regulators with confidence?

AwardIQ helps organisations answer these questions with clarity.

It turns Modern Award rules into structured, deterministic logic so payroll outcomes can be calculated, analysed, and explained.

Capabilities

Everything you need to calculate, investigate, and understand award‑based payroll.

AwardIQ is designed around the real questions payroll teams face every day.

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Pay Calculator

Calculate award pay correctly

Check the correct award pay for any shift. Enter details such as award, classification level, employment type, and hours worked. The platform calculates the pay outcome using deterministic award rules and shows the pay components and award clauses used.

Common use cases

  • Verify whether a shift was paid correctly
  • Compare weekend and weekday penalties
  • Test pay outcomes across awards
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Award Intelligence

Understand award rules clearly

Explore Australian Modern Awards through a structured and searchable interface. Quickly access classification structures, pay rate tables, overtime rules, penalty rules, and award version history.

Common use cases

  • Identify the correct classification level
  • Understand overtime or penalty provisions
  • Compare rules between awards
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Investigation Tools

Investigate payroll issues

Explain why calculations occurred and why risks were flagged. AwardIQ traces each payroll result back to the award rules and clauses that produced it.

Common use cases

  • Investigate a flagged payroll issue
  • Explain pay outcomes internally
  • Prepare evidence for audits or regulators
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Compliance Review

Review payroll compliance at scale

Analyse entire payroll datasets to detect award compliance risks. Upload payroll records and the platform evaluates each entry against award rules to detect issues such as potential underpayments, incorrect classifications, missing penalties, and overtime threshold breaches.

Common use cases

  • Internal payroll compliance reviews
  • Payroll audits
  • Investigating potential underpayments

How it works

Deterministic payroll logic. AI‑assisted investigation.

AwardIQ combines a deterministic award calculation engine with an AI assistant designed to help users understand payroll outcomes faster.

Rules Engine

The rules engine determines what should be paid under Modern Award rules. Every calculation is deterministic — the same inputs always produce the same outputs.

  • Deterministic calculations
  • Clause‑backed results
  • Repeatable and auditable

AI Assistant

The AI assistant helps users explore results by explaining calculations, summarising risks, and answering questions about award provisions.

  • Natural language explanations
  • Risk summarisation
  • Award provision Q&A

This approach preserves the accuracy of rule‑based payroll calculations while making the system easier to understand and use.

Transparency

Built for explainable payroll compliance.

Deterministic calculations

All pay outcomes are calculated using deterministic award rules rather than opaque AI models.

Clause-backed explanations

Every calculation and explanation links back to the relevant award clauses.

Scenario comparison

Test multiple shift scenarios to understand how award rules affect pay outcomes.

Compliance investigation tools

Analyse payroll data at scale to identify potential compliance risks.

For Platforms

Award compliance infrastructure for payroll software.

AwardIQ provides APIs that allow payroll systems and workforce platforms to embed award intelligence into their own products. Deliver deeper award compliance capabilities without building complex rule engines internally.

  • Calculate award pay using structured rule logic
  • Retrieve clause-backed explanations
  • Investigate payroll scenarios
  • Integrate award knowledge directly into payroll workflows
Explore APIs
api/v1/calculate
// Calculate award pay
POST /api/v1/calculate
{
"award": "MA000009",
"classification": "Level 3",
"shiftStart": "2024-01-15T06:00",
"shiftEnd": "2024-01-15T14:30",
"employmentType": "full_time"
}

Who it's for

Built for teams responsible for payroll compliance.

Employers

Verify payroll calculations and reduce compliance risk.

Payroll teams

Understand complex award rules and investigate payroll outcomes quickly.

Accountants & advisors

Support clients with award interpretation and payroll reviews.

Compliance teams

Analyse payroll data and identify potential underpayment risks.

Payroll software vendors

Embed award intelligence into payroll platforms through APIs.

Clarity and confidence for award‑based payroll.

AwardIQ helps organisations calculate, investigate, and explain payroll decisions under Australian Modern Awards.

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