Employee Name
The name of the employee that was entered in the Profile view of the Card Information window appears in the left corner.
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: weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly or monthly.
Wages Expense Account
Enter an account to track your wage expenses for the selected employee.
Checkmark (Assign) column
Click in this column next to a wage if you want to assign that wage to an employee. The wages you select will be displayed in the Pay Employees window and calculated on an employee's paychecks.
Click the checkmark button at the top of this column to mark all the wages in the list. Click again to clear all marks from this column.
Wages column
This list contains all the wages available for this employee. If you want to view more information about a wage, click the zoom arrow next to the name to display the Wages information window.
Click this button to print the Employee Payroll List report.
Create New Payroll Category
Click this button to open the Wages Information window, where you can create a new employee wage.
New button
Click this button to open a new Card Information window.
OK button
Click this button to accept the entries you've made in this window