Ireland Beta

Know what your HSE shifts should pay.

WageTally works out what a fortnight of your roster should come to, then lets you hold that figure against your payslip. It's built, it runs on iPhone, and we're looking for a small number of nurses and midwives to test it.

Join the Ireland beta

For nurses and midwives paid under HSE Public Health Service arrangements. If you work in the Irish health service, wherever you trained or qualified, you're who we're looking for.

How it works

Four things, and the fourth is the one that matters.

  1. 1

    Set up your pay once

    Choose your grade and pay point, and answer one question about whether you work a 5 over 7 roster. WageTally takes the salary from the published HSE scales and shows you the hourly rate it derived, and how.

  2. 2

    Record the shifts you actually worked

    Dates, start, finish, break. Nights that cross midnight are fine. Ireland's ten public holidays are already in there.

  3. 3

    See what it should come to

    Every premium WageTally applied, named, with the rule and the amount beside it. Nothing is a black box — if a figure is there, you can see where it came from.

  4. 4

    Hold it against your payslip

    Enter what you were actually paid. WageTally shows you four lines: what it calculated, what you added yourself, what your payslip says, and what neither of them explains.

The actual app

Real screens from the build you'd be testing.

Workplace setup screen with Pay Setup set to Ireland — HSE Public Health Service, Grade set to Staff Nurse / Registered Midwife, Pay Point 5 at 44,213 euro, an annual salary of 44,213 euro and an hourly rate of 22.60 euro, noted as the annual salary divided by 52.18 weeks and 37.5 hours, both stated by the HSE.

Your grade, your point

The rate comes from the published scales, and the app shows you the arithmetic rather than asking you to trust it.

Shift detail for a night shift showing expected gross pay of 322.92 euro over 11.50 hours, then a breakdown splitting the shift by rule: basic pay at 22.60 euro an hour throughout, twilight at 16.67 percent of base rate for the 19:00 hour, and night duty at 25 percent of base rate from 20:00, each line showing the hours it applied to.

Every premium, named

Night duty, Sunday, twilight, the Saturday allowance — each with the rule that produced it and the hours it applied to.

Paycheck comparison listing 2,170.44 euro calculated from your pay rules, 107.24 euro in amounts you added, 2,438.81 euro reported on your payslip, and an unexplained difference of 161.13 euro, above a note that WageTally deliberately errs low for Ireland.

And what's left over

The gap between the payslip and everything WageTally can account for. That number is the point of this beta.

A section headed What WageTally Leaves Out, listing weekday overtime as not calculated, Qualification and Location allowances as not included, twilight as paid for 18:00 to 20:00 only, and on-call, TOIL and public-holiday leave as not modelled.

And what it won't guess

The gaps are listed in the app itself, not buried in a footnote. Every one of them makes the estimate lower than your payslip, never higher.

We don't ask you to take our word for it

WageTally keeps its own arithmetic separate from anything you tell it, on every screen that shows money.

Calculated from your pay rules

Figures WageTally worked out itself, from your grade, your pay point and the hours you recorded. Every one of them can be opened up and traced back to the rule that produced it.

Amounts you added

Anything you enter yourself — an allowance, an on-call payment, arrears — stays labelled as yours. The app's own words are "You entered this. WageTally has not checked it." It never quietly folds your figures into its own.

WageTally produces an estimate of expected gross pay to compare against your payslip. It does not determine what an employer owes you, and it isn't payroll or legal advice.

What we're actually asking

We're looking for about ten nurses and midwives to use WageTally with a real fortnight of their own shifts and tell us where it gets things wrong.

We want you to find discrepancies. If WageTally says one thing and your payslip says another, that gap is the most useful thing you can send us. It might be a premium we've modelled incorrectly, a rule that works differently in your unit, or something we've knowingly left out. We'd rather learn that from ten people now than from ten thousand later.

Two questions we'd particularly like answered, because they'd resolve real gaps in what the app can calculate: what time normal day duty starts and finishes in your unit, and whether your unit pays a shift allowance instead of night duty and twilight.

Beyond that, you'd be using an app and telling us when the number looks wrong. There's no schedule, no minimum commitment, and no obligation to keep going if it isn't useful to you.

Getting the app

WageTally isn't on the Irish App Store yet — the beta is distributed through TestFlight, Apple's official app for testing.

  1. 1

    Apply below

    Five short questions. We'll email you back.

  2. 2

    Install TestFlight

    A free app from Apple. Get TestFlight — you can install it now if you like.

  3. 3

    Open your invite

    We'll send you a TestFlight link, or you can join the beta directly. Opening it on your iPhone installs WageTally and puts you on the beta.

Once you're in, start here

The app walks you through your first shift, but a few things are worth knowing that it doesn't spell out:

  • Set your currency to euro first — Settings → Currency. WageTally labels amounts; it never converts them.
  • Set the workplace time zone to Dublin, so shifts that cross midnight land on the right day.
  • Your fortnight anchor matters. In the pay period settings, set the start date of a fortnight you've actually been paid for — that's what decides which payslip each shift belongs to.
  • If your grade isn't in the list, stop there and tell us. WageTally holds four grades today and will refuse rather than put you on the wrong scale. That refusal is a finding, and we want it.
  • Allowances aren't calculated. If you get a Qualification or Location allowance, add it yourself from any pay period screen and it'll carry forward. It stays marked as yours.

Join the Ireland beta

Five questions. We'll come back to you by email, and anything else we need to know we can work out in conversation.

So we can send your invite and follow up on how it's going.

Are you a nurse or a midwife?
Are you paid under HSE Public Health Service arrangements?

Agency, private hospital and Section 39 pay work differently, and WageTally isn't built for them yet. If you're not sure, say so — we'll work it out together.

WageTally is iPhone only at the moment.

This form sends your name, email and answers to us by email through Formspree, the service that handles the form. We use it to contact you about the beta and nothing else. It's separate from the app — the app itself has no account and sends nothing anywhere.

Questions

Do I have to send you my payslip? ⌄

No. You can take part without sending us anything at all — just tell us where the figure disagreed with what you were paid.

Later on, if you're willing, we may ask about the structure of a payslip: the earnings lines, their descriptions, hours and rates. If we ever do, we'd ask you to black out everything else first. We're interested in how pay is put together, not in who you are. We will never ask for your PPS number, staff or employee number, bank details, date of birth or address, and you never have to send anything you'd rather not.

Which grades does WageTally support? ⌄

Four today: Staff Nurse (including Staff Nurse Community and Registered Midwife, which share a scale), Mental Health Staff Nurse, Senior Staff Nurse (General), and Senior Staff Nurse (Mental Health).

Enhanced Nurse, the CNM grades, Clinical Nurse Specialist and Staff Midwife aren't in yet. If you pick your grade and it isn't listed, the app tells you so and stops — it won't put you on a different grade's scale. Apply anyway and tell us which grade you're on; knowing which ones to add next is useful to us.

What does it not calculate? ⌄

Weekday overtime, deliberately. The HSE and the INMO describe the rates differently and neither defines "normal day duty" as a clock time, so WageTally shows those hours at basic pay and says so rather than guessing.

Twilight is paid for 18:00–20:00 only. Qualification and Location allowances, on-call and call-out payments aren't calculated either — you can add those yourself, and they stay marked as amounts you entered.

Every one of these gaps makes the figure lower than your payslip, never higher. The app lists them on screen next to the money.

What happens to what I put in the app? ⌄

It stays on your iPhone. WageTally has no account and no sign-in, doesn't sync to any cloud, and contains no analytics or tracking of any kind — your shifts and pay figures are not sent anywhere, including to us. The only thing that reaches us is what you choose to tell us directly.

Does this cost anything? ⌄

No. Taking part is free, and everything you need to check a pay period against your payslip is in the free version.

Who is behind this? ⌄

WageTally is an independent app. It isn't affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the HSE, the INMO, any hospital or any government body. The pay scales it uses are public documents.

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