Understanding Wage Proration in Province Payroll

Province allows you to assign new wages to employees on the exact date you’ve agreed to—without doing any manual math. If an employee's wage changes mid-pay period, Province will automatically prorate their pay based on the change.

💡 What is proration?

Proration means adjusting a an employee’s pay when a wage change happens partway through a pay period.

📆 Example: Wage Change Mid-Period

Let’s say an employee’s pay period runs from Sunday July 27th to Saturday August 2nd, 2025, and she receives a new salary effective July 30, 2025. She goes from $50,000 annually to $60,000 annually. Province will automatically split her earnings for that pay period to reflect the change:

The employee’s pay automatically reflects the correct daily rate for each date, based on which wage was in effect.

You don’t need to split entries manually. Province does it for you.

🧮 Do I need to do anything?

Only two things:

Make sure the Compensation Start Date on the new wage matches the agreed effective date.
Keep the employee’s schedule up to date, so the system knows what days they were expected to work.

Province will handle the calculations behind the scenes.