{"id":4659,"date":"2018-07-23T13:27:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T17:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/?post_type=sage_glossary&#038;p=4659"},"modified":"2026-02-16T06:17:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:17:04","slug":"what-is-common-rate","status":"publish","type":"sage_glossary","link":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/glossary\/what-is-common-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"What is common rate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header has-dark-background-color entry-header--has-illustration entry-header--has-illustration--generic\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"entry-header__row row align-center\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col col-lg-7 col-xlg-6 entry-header__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"component component-single-header\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-header__misc text--subtitle text--uppercase text--small\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/glossary\/\" class=\"entry-header__link\">Glossary definition<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-title-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"entry-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat is common rate?\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"single-post-details container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"reading-time\"> min read<\/span>\n\t\t<button\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"social-share-button button button--icon button--secondary js-social-share-button\"\n\t\t\tdata-share-title=\"What is common rate?\"\n\t\t\tdata-share-url=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/glossary\/what-is-common-rate\/\"\n\t\t\tdata-share-text=\"Please read this interesting article\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"social-share-button__share-label\">Share<\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"social-share-button__copy-label\" hidden>Copy Link<\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"social-share-button__copy-tooltip\" aria-hidden=\"true\" hidden>Copied<\/span>\n\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/header>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-common-rate\">Common Rate<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Pay rates that are set up as a standard at the company level by your service bureau.&nbsp;After a common rate is set up, it&nbsp;can be assigned to employees as a rate of pay. You can also select common rates as a temporary rate on the pay grid&nbsp;during pay data entry. Common rates are usually associated with a job type.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An example of a common rate would be for a restaurant. Frequently, in restaurants, the role of the employee (waiter,&nbsp;host, dishwasher, busboy, and so on.) determines the rate of pay for that employee. And, employees in restaurants&nbsp;typically switch roles frequently; they can be a host one night, a waiter the next, a bartender another night, and so on.&nbsp;Using common rates is an easy way to pick the classification of a waiter, for example, as the rate and know that it is&nbsp;standard across everyone. Also, if the rate changes, for example, if minimum wage goes up and the waiter rate changes, you can make the change at the company level to the common rate and it is automatically updated for everyone who has it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common Rate Pay rates that are set up as a standard at the company level by your service bureau.&nbsp;After a common rate is set up, it&nbsp;can be assigned to employees as a rate of pay. You can also select common rates as a temporary rate on the pay grid&nbsp;during pay data entry. 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