How to pay related functions or a higher category

What is it for?

It keeps the period in which an employee performs another function. If the function has higher pay, fiscaldoo pays the difference on the payslip, in proportion to the days.

When to use it?

• When an employee performs, for a period, functions related to their own or those of a category with higher pay.
• Do not use it for a permanent promotion: in that case, change the salary as explained in How to change the salary.

Where to find it?

On the dashboard Payroll › Prepare › What is there to do this month?, Supporting lists, Related functions and higher category. On the employee's file, under ⋮, with the same name.

Before you start

• Your profile is Payroll Administrator.
• You know the dates, who decided and, for the higher category, that category's monthly pay.

How to use it

1. Open Related functions and higher category and click New. Choose the Worker.
2. In Type, choose:
   • Related functions (art. 118.º/2): no change in pay: only the record of the period is kept;
   • Higher category for a period (art. 267.º): Monthly pay of the higher category appears, and the payslip pays the difference.
3. In Reason or order, enter who decided and why. Also state the professional category exercised: today, the Category exercised list shows pay item categories, for example Due, and not professional categories.
4. Fill in From and Up to. Without Up to, the record continues into the following months. For the higher category, also fill in Category exercised and Monthly pay of the higher category. Click Save.
5. On the month's payslip, click Calculate. The Differential of a higher category line is added automatically.

Example. An employee with a base remuneration of 1,150.00 € stands in, from 01/11/2026 to 15/11/2026, in a category paid 1,500.00 €.

(1,500.00 € − 1,150.00 €) × 15 days ÷ 30 days of the month = 175.00 €

How was it calculated? explains: “Higher category exercised in the month (Vencimento, monthly pay 1500.00): (higher pay - contract pay) x days of the exercise / days of the month = 175.00 […] IRS: subject. Social Security: subject.”

Expected result

• The record is in the list, with Type, Category exercised, dates and pay.
• With the higher category, the payslip for each month of the period has the line, subject to IRS and Social Security.
• With related functions, the payslip does not change.

Important notes

• Related functions with higher pay. Anyone performing related functions, even on an ancillary basis, is entitled to the higher pay corresponding to them, for as long as that lasts (Labour Code (Código do Trabalho), art. 267.º, no. 1). Today, the Related functions option pays nothing: if there is higher pay, choose Higher category.
• What related functions are. Those in the same professional group or career, unless the collective agreement says otherwise, provided the employee is qualified and there is no professional downgrading (art. 118.º, nos. 2 and 3). If they require special qualifications, the employee is entitled to at least ten hours of training a year (art. 118.º, no. 4). Source: text read on PGDL on 04/11/2026.
• Months already paid. If the period covers a month already paid, fiscaldoo creates, on saving and currently without any message, a corrective payslip to be validated. Look for it in Payroll › Process › Payslips and check it. See How to correct a payroll run.

Pending validation by a certified accountant: the proportion in calendar days; and the treatment of related functions without their own pay set in the collective agreement.

Common problems

On saving: “needs the category and its monthly pay”

• Message: “A higher category needs the category and its monthly pay (CT art. 267.º/1). What happened: without them the product cannot pay the difference. How to fix it: fill in “Category exercised” and “Monthly pay of the higher category”.”
• What to do: fill in both fields.

On saving: “already exercises a higher category in that period”

• Message: “… already exercises a higher category in that period (from 01/11/2026). How to fix it: close that exercise with “Until” or change the dates.”
• What to do: fill in Up to on the previous record, or correct the dates of the new one.

On saving: the dates are refused

• Message: “The operation cannot be completed: The end of the exercise cannot be earlier than its start.”
• What to do: correct From or Up to.

The line is lower than you expected

• Cause: the calculation uses the calendar days of the month, and only the days of the exercise.
• What to do: check the dates and How was it calculated? on the line.