Generating the Paper Version of the CSO Earnings, hours and employment cost survey report
Description

The Earnings, Hours and Employment Cost Survey (EHECS)  compiles indicies for the purpose of monitoring change in labour costs in Ireland and across the EU. The report must cover all payrolls belonging to the same tax registration company and be submitted quarterly to the Central Statistics Office (CSO).

You can submit the report to the Central Statistics Office in two ways:

  • The recommended approach is to submit an electronic version of the report (in XML format). Read more >

    This has a number of advantages:
    • It eliminates the need for laborious transcribing of information onto paper forms.
    • The electronic submission contains more comprehensive information.
    • It's easier for the CSO to extract the required information from an electronic data file, which means they're less likely to need to contact you.

  • You can also send a paper copy of the report to the Central Statistics Office. To do it this way follow the steps in the section below.

 NOTE: You can exclude an employee from the report by selecting the Exclude Employee from CSO Reports checkbox in the Employee Details window's CSO tab.

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NOTE: Before you follow these steps, make sure you have set up your payroll for CSO reporting.

  1. Click Other Reports in the navigation pane's Pay Run view, or Other Reports in the desktop process map.

  2. Click the Company tab, then select the CSO Earnings Hrs & Costs radio button.

  3. To generate a paper copy of the report, click Print.
  4. In the dialogue box that opens, specify the quarter of the year for which you want to generate the report, and then click OK.
  5. The Sage Payroll Summary screen opens. This provides a list or the payrolls that will be included in the report. It includes all payrolls associated with the same licensed company as the current payroll, excluding those for which CSO reporting is disabled. A payroll will also be excluded from the report if no pay period has been completed in it in the current year.
  6. Click Continue.
  7. The Company Reports window opens. Here you must enter the password of each payroll you wish to include in the report.
  8. Click Continue to generate the report.
  9. The report displays onscreen, or is printed, as appropriate.

    Paper submissions must be made on official CSO stationery, which contains sections relating to values not recorded in the payroll system. The information in the report you have generated should be transcribed to the official CSO stationery before submission.

  10. The final page(s) of the report may indicate employees or payments that are not correctly categorised. These must be correctly categorised before the EHECS report is submitted to the CSO.

The report is organised into several parts, which is detailed in About the Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey.

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