Pay deadlines

What you need to know

Each month SSCL processes the Armed Forces Payroll to ensure you receive pay on pay day.

It is important that you have read and understood JSP 754 Tri-Service Regulations for Pay before proceeding.

For full-time personnel, pay day is the last working day of the month and for part time reservists it is the first working day of the following month.

The schedule of activities and checks needed to process payroll takes a number of weeks; it’s not an overnight process.

The Main payroll run will take place approximately 7 days before the end of the month and reconciles that months pay and charges. The retro run takes place over the last weekend of the month and will reconcile and pay or charge for retrospective events that were not processed in a main payroll run. These changes will be added to that months pay statement.

Pay statements are visible to the Unit HRs a few days after the Retro pay run but will be removed from JPA while the main pay roll is run. Final pay statements will be visible a few days after the main pay run

It’s so important that claims or changes are entered correctly and actioned prior to Cut-Off each month. Claims or changes made after the Cut-Off will always be processed, but in the following month.

Payroll timetable