Employee Payroll Information window
Wages Expense Acct |
Enter an account to track your wage expenses for the selected employee. |
Pay Basis |
Choose Hourly or Salary from the list to indicate whether this employee is paid based on the number of hours he or she works, or based on a fixed salary amount. If you select Hourly, the Base Hourly wage (or the name you assigned to this wage) will be automatically selected in the Payroll Categories list on the right side of this window. If you select Salary, the Base Salary wage (or the name you assigned to this wage) will be automatically selected in the Payroll Categories list. If you wish, you can also assign hourly wage types to salaried employees and salary wage types to hourly employees by selecting the wages you want from the Payroll Categories list. |
Annual/Hourly Base Pay |
Depending upon your selection in the Pay Basis field, enter the hourly or annual base pay for the employee. |
Pay Frequency |
Select the frequency with which paychecks will be issued to the employee. |
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Federal, State and Local |
Depending upon the Residence Code and Work Code entered for the employee in the Payroll Details window, Federal, State and Local selections may appear. When Federal is selected, Marital Status, Allowances and Extra Withheld fields appear; select or enter information that applies to federal tax for an employee. When State or Local is selected, the same fields appear; select or enter information that applies to state tax for an employee. |
Select column |
Click the Select column next to a wage, deduction, accrual, employer expense or tax name if you want to assign that payroll category to an employee. The payroll categories you select will be displayed in the Write Paychecks window and calculated with an employee’s paychecks. |
Payroll Categories column |
This list contains all the wages, accruals, deductions and employer expenses in the AccountEdge system, as well as the taxes that apply to the entries you made in the Residence Code and Work Code fields on the Payroll Details tab of the Card File Entry window for this employee. If you want to view more information about a wage, deduction, accrual, employer expense or tax, click the zoom arrow next to the name to display its appropriate Information window. |
Print button |
Click this button to print the Employee Payroll List report for the employee whose name appears in the window. |
History button |
Click this button to open the Pay History window, where you can view and change this employee’s wage, accrual, deduction and tax amounts for the current payroll year, as well as the employer expenses you’ve incurred for this employee. |
Accruals button |
Click this button to open the Accrual Balances window, where you can view and change information about the accruals assigned to the selected employee |
OK button |
Click this button to accept the entries you’ve made and close the window. |
Fields in the Employee Payroll Information window