The Social Security System (SSS) is an insurance program mandated by the Philippine government to cover all income earners or workers in the private sector.

• Every month, Employed Members must pay their SSS contributions through the company they work for
• SSS contributions are determined based on the employee's Range of Compensation for the month.  Range of Compensation should consider all employee's earnings
• Employees are classified into a Monthly Salary Credit (MSC) bracket based on Range of Compensation
• Employers (ER) are required to contribute 8% of MSC
• Employees (EE) are required to contribute 4% of MSC
• Employers are also required to contribute to the Employees Compensation program (EC).  

ZipHR CALCULATION

1. Range of Compensation - Compensation to be included for SSS can be configured in Payroll > Settings > Payment Configurations > Contribution Wages.
2. Monthly Salary Credit (MSC) - MSC is determined based on Range of Compensation
3. Employer (ER) contribution = 8.5% * MSC 
4. Employee (EE) contribution = 4.5% * MSC 
5. Employee Compensation (EC) = P10 for MSC of P15,000 and below, P30 for MSC above P15,000 and up; paid only by the employer

SEMI-MONTHLY SSS ADJUSTMENTS

If the employee is paid twice monthly, ZipHR will automatically spread the SSS requirement across 2 periods as follows.

For any 1st semi-monthly period, or first payslip issued within each month.

1. MSC - will depend on the Wage floor & Wage cap that was set under Contribution Types>SSS (EE) & (ER)
2. ER and EE - contributions based on half of the estimated monthly contributions
3. EC - will always be set to P10 as the minimum payment

For any 2nd semi-monthly period, or the second payslip issued within each month

1. MSC - determined based on compensation in 1st-half plus compensation in 2nd-half
2. ER and EE - contributions based on the full month's MSC calculated above, less any ER and EE already paid in 1st-half
3. EC - based on full month MSC less any EC paid in 1st-half

GENERATE REPORT

ZipHR also provides an SSS report the Employer can use as a reference!

Go to Reports >Contributions & Select SSS
Select the year & month of the needed report
Use Filter if you want to separate the reports per Branches, Subsidiary or Cost Centre
Click CREATE REPORTS
The initial report for SSS can be downloaded before marking the report as Final. Here are the reports that you can download: XLSX Full Details - It is used to view the full information of the SSS Report in a standard excel format. CSV SSS Format - this is the summarized report of SSS in which data is in text format and is separated by (;) semi-colon. XLSX SSS Format - It adapts the SSS Report File Format and is used to view the partial information of a SSS Report. TXT SSS Format - This is used to directly upload SSS contribution data from ZipHR to SSS Website.
Click the CREATE FINAL REPORT button once you're done reviewing the data.

UPLOAD YOUR ZIPHR SSS REPORT DIRECTLY ON SSS WEBSITE

Updating of Salary & contribution details of your employees could be tedious on the part of the employer every month especially if you have hundreds of employees. 

Surprise! ZipHR produced a SSS Text file that you can use to directly upload your monthly contribution details on the SSS website so you could easily generate the PRN!

Please follow the instruction below once you have the SSS Text file report from ZipHR:

Log-in to SSS Website and go to PRN>Contribution Page & click on Offline Facility>Upload Employer List
Choose the exported SSS Text file from ZipHR & click Upload
Select Unpaid Current Applicable Month
Follow the instruction to view the partial billing statement
And you're done! You may now download the PRN. **In case you need to edit the details, you can click CANCEL & do the usual edit option on the SSS site.