BrightPay allows you to analyse payroll data by cost centre using its department functionality. 

In BrightPay, "departments" can be used to represent cost centres, enabling you to allocate employees and their pay to specific areas of your business. 

Here’s how you can extract payroll analytics by cost centre:

Set Up Departments as Cost Centres

• Go to the Departments section in BrightPay.
• Add each cost centre as a separate department.
• Assign employees to the relevant department (cost centre). You can also split an employee’s pay across multiple departments if needed.

Allocate Pay to Departments

• When processing payroll, you can allocate an employee’s pay to one or more departments (cost centres).
• This allows you to track payroll costs by department.

Generate Departmental (Cost Centre) Reports

• Go to the Reports section in BrightPay.
• Create a new report or edit an existing one to include department (cost centre) as a field.
• You can filter or group the report by department to see payroll costs per cost centre.
• Export the report as a CSV or Excel file for further analysis.

By setting up departments as cost centres, allocating pay accordingly, and using BrightPay’s reporting features, you can extract and analyse payroll data by cost centre.

Please note: Departments need to be assigned before finalising the payslips for the period you are reporting on. If they were not assigned prior to finalising the payslips, you can re-open that period, assign the department in the Employees > Employment section and save changes. Then finalise the payslips again and run the report in the Analysis tab.