Payday super, daily.
From 1 July, superannuation follows payday: employers must get contributions to the fund with the pay run, not once a quarter. For most payrolls that means moving from 4 contribution events a year to 26 or 52. MyGig pays casual workers the day after every shift, so our super now moves on the same daily cycle: up to 365 contribution cycles a year.
What changed on 1 July
Under the old regime, super could sit with the employer for up to a quarter before it had to reach the worker’s fund. Payday super collapses that lag: contributions now travel with the pay run itself. The policy logic is compounding, money in the fund earns returns for the member instead of sitting in the employer’s working capital, and unpaid-super debts stop silently accruing for months before anyone notices.
Why frequency is the hard part
For employers, payday super is an operations problem disguised as a compliance date. Every pay cycle now needs clearing-house submission, fund validation, and reconciliation attached to it; a weekly payroll multiplies that admin 13-fold against the quarterly baseline. Casual-heavy operations feel it most, because their pay runs are the most frequent and their workforces churn the fastest, which means more new fund memberships, more choice-of-fund forms, and more stapled-fund lookups per dollar of wages.
MyGig’s implementation: super at the speed of pay
MyGig’s payroll was built pay-first: workers are paid the day after every shift, at no cost to them. Payday super simply attaches the 12% superannuation guarantee to that existing daily cycle, so contributions are processed with net pay, every day there is a pay run, up to 365 cycles a year. Workers see super accrue shift by shift; employers on MyGig carry none of the new admin, because as the Employer of Record the obligation, the processing, and the audit trail sit with us. Default contributions go to Hostplus, our default fund (workers can choose any fund); the detail is on our Hostplus partnership page.
“Payday super turned a quarterly deadline into a payroll-frequency problem. On a daily payroll, that means 365 contribution cycles a year, and MyGig already runs them.”
MyGig Workforce Insights, July 2026. Free to cite with attribution and a link to this page. Media and data requests: contact us.
Method and notes
From 1 July, superannuation guarantee contributions must be paid with the pay cycle (payday super) rather than by quarterly deadlines. Employers should confirm the transition details for their circumstances with the ATO or their adviser.
Contribution cycles per year = pay runs per year: quarterly 4, monthly 12, fortnightly 26, weekly 52, daily up to 365. MyGig runs payroll daily (workers paid the day after each shift), so super is processed on the same cadence.
Hostplus is MyGig's default superannuation fund; workers keep full choice of fund and stapled funds are respected. Super guarantee rate: 12% (ATO, from 1 July 2025).
General information, not financial or tax advice. Companion reading: how MyGig’s daily payroll works and the worker wallet. More research at MyGig Workforce Insights.
Payday super, already solved.
As Employer of Record, MyGig runs daily pay and daily super for every worker on your shifts. The obligation sits with us.