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Status New
Workspace Paycircle
Created by Natasha Lichten
Created on Apr 2, 2026

Linking NEST pension for a salary sacrifice scheme

NEST pension requires salary sacrifice to be an ER only contribution (8%), but our payroll settings will have this split as EE & ER. Tis means that we cannot use the API upload as it will overwrite the settings in Paycircle. Can there be an option to combine the contributions so that a manual upload isn't needed.

Customer Priority 1 - Critical - Need within 3 months
Customer Challenge

Additional work is needed for manual uploads as the API function is not available.

Business Case

Affects multiple clients as salary sacrifice is popular and NEST now supports this.

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  • Rachel Lovell
    Aug 4, 2026

    We've had no issues with uploading directly to NEST on Salary sacrifice schemes as below

  • Helen Connell
    May 6, 2026

    We use the API function to upload the pension contributions to Nest on sacrifice schemes, there is an option in the pension settings under the group countributions to tick for salary sacrifice. In Nest the group is set at 8% and in paycircle the group is set at 5% ee and 3% ers but with the sacrifice ticked it reads it as 8% er contribution. When you connect to Nest it works fine like this.