Earnings dashboard for locums

The earnings dashboard pulls from your recorded shifts and invoices to show your financial position at a glance. Australian locums self-invoice each shift at the agreed rate, so your gross earnings are the sum of the agreed rates for every active (non-cancelled) shift in the selected window. Alongside the headline you see:

• Gross earnings: total money in the door for the period, before tax and before expenses.
• Average per shift: your typical rate across the shifts in view, useful for benchmarking new offers.
• Still to invoice: the draft value you have yet to raise.
• Tax reserve: a suggested set-aside on your earnings for the period.
• Currently overdue: outstanding invoices flagged regardless of the period filter, so a chase signal never hides behind a narrow date range.

Because your BAS, your tax return, and most "how much have I earned?" questions are financial-year questions, the dashboard defaults to the current Australian financial year, which runs 1 July to 30 June. The period control offers:

• Tax year: the current financial year, shown with its label, for example 2025/26.
• Quarter and Month: the current calendar quarter or month, handy for tracking against a BAS quarter.
• All time: your complete history since joining Sessional.

For anything more specific, the From and To date pickers set a custom range, which is what you want for a tax agent request, a home-loan application, or a single quarter. A custom range overrides the period preset; clear it to return to the preset.

Locums earn across many workplaces, and seeing which ones carry your income is the whole point of a cross-source view. Use the organisation filter to isolate one workplace, whether that is an agency, a hospital, or a clinic you bill directly, and compare which relationships are most productive. A free-text search narrows further by workplace name or site notes.

Below the headline, a monthly breakdown table lists each month's shift count, average rate, and gross, ordered chronologically, and an earnings ledger lists every shift with its delivery and invoice state. The split between work you invoice yourself and work where a patient or workplace is billed directly is explained in the agency vs direct billing guide.

Under the headline metrics, Sessional shows a tax reserve on the earnings in view. As an Australian contractor you are taxed as an individual on your contractor income, so this is a single self-employed reserve: it annualises your gross from the date span of your shifts, applies your finance-profile assumptions, and suggests a percentage to set aside. It deliberately leaves out PSI rules, the Medicare levy surcharge, HELP and HECS repayments, and other adjustments, so treat it as a guide and use the tax planner for the full picture.

If you record a monthly super contribution in your finance profile, a super planning snapshot annualises it and reminds you of the concessional cap. The forward earnings forecast and the peer rate benchmark sit at the top of the page so you can see where this financial year is trending and how your rate compares, with a privacy floor so no individual is identifiable. The super tracker covers contributions in depth.

When you link expenses to shifts on the expenses page, a per-shift margin table appears here: agreed rate minus tagged costs equals your real net for that shift, with a margin percentage. A high-rate day in a regional town can net less than a closer shift once travel and accommodation are counted, and this is where you see it.

Click Export CSV to download the shifts for your current filter, including dates, workplace names, rates, and totals, ready for your tax agent or your bookkeeping software. The export honours your date and organisation filters.

Earnings flow from your shifts. You mark a shift delivered, raise an invoice, track it while it is outstanding, and the amount realises when the workplace marks it paid through its signed link or you mark it paid yourself. Overdue invoices are chased automatically and surfaced here so the dashboard always reflects reality: what you have been paid versus what is still owed. The mechanics live in the invoicing guide.