Wages Name

The name of the wage you're viewing appears in this field. Enter a unique name if you're creating a new wage.

You can change information for any wage, and you can delete all wages except the Base Salary and Base Hourly wages.

Type of Wages

Select the type of wages:

• Hourly: Choose this selection if this wage will be used to calculate income on an hourly basis.

• Salary: Choose this selection if this wage will be used to calculate employee income on a fixed amount per pay period, month or year.

Pay Rate

Select the pay rate. This field appears only if you chose the Hourly selection in the Type of Wages field.

• Regular Rate Multiplied by: Enter the amount by which you want to multiply this wage rate by the regular hourly base rate. For example, if you pay "time-and-a-half" for overtime, enter 1.5 in this field.

• Fixed Hourly Rate of: Enter the fixed hourly rate for this wage in this field if the wage is not a multiple of the regular hourly base rate.

If you'd like to use a calculator, select the plus sign ("+"), the asterisk ("*"), the equal sign ("=") or the space bar on your keyboard to launch the Calculator window.

Optional Account/Override Expense Account

If you want to track this wage with an account different from your linked Default Wages Expense Account, mark this selection; enter the account you wish to use in the Override Account field that appears when this selection is marked.

Non-Cash Wages

Mark this selection if you want non-cash wages such as tips excluded from the calculated Net Pay. If you mark it, three types of non-cash wages appear and you must select one:

• Reported Tips

• Allocated Tips

• Other Non-Cash Wages

Employee button

Click this icon to open the Linked Employees window - Wages, where you can select the employees to whom this wage is assigned.

Exempt button

Click this button to open the Wages Exemptions window, where you can list the taxes and deductions from which this wage is exempt.

New button

Click this button to create a new employee wage.

OK button

Click this button to accept the entries you've made and close the window.