I'm new to Sage and ran my first payroll last month. When checking through the pension payments I noticed that the employee amounts had increased quite noticeably. I entered the contribution amount as EE 5%, ER 3% as per our Nest Pension, in the settings I can see that "Deduct Before Tax" is ticked, is this correct? Would this mean the 

Does anyone know if there is a reason these amounts would have increased?