Superannuation changes and total rewards statements

On layout, we show three lines: cash salary, employer super, and a third line for the contribution above the guarantee that we make for staff with more than five years of service, an extra 1 percent. Putting the voluntary part on its own line is what made people notice it. Before that it was buried in a single super figure.

I would leave the absorbed increases off the statement altogether. We included a line saying the company had funded the rate rise, and the feedback was that it sounded as if we wanted thanks for following the law. A short note from the people director in the covering email did the same job with a better tone.