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C
CEO_of_TooManyHats_Inc
February 26, 2021
Question

Feature Request: Multiple Pay Types Per Employee.

  • February 26, 2021
  • 1 reply
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Currently, it is not possible to pay an employee both a salary and an hourly wage.

 

This is ridiculous as it is relatively common practice in some industries to pay an employee salary for shop hours and an hourly wage on top of that salary for field hours.

 

The current workaround is to run payroll with the employee's pay type as salary, then change the employee's pay type to hourly and run payroll again for their hourly wages. This results in the employee having two separate paystubs for the same pay period and is altogether a large waste of time to be switching back and forth and running multiple payrolls.

 

Please implement a feature allowing any employee to receive an hourly rate, salary, or any combination of the two.

 

1 reply

J
JamesM4
Level 6
February 26, 2021

Hi CEO_of_TooManyHats_Inc,

 

Your feedback on this is valuable and it's important your voice is heard. QuickBooks offers a robust payroll module that adapts with you as your business grows. Feedback like yours helps make the program fun and intuitive to use. 

 

You're more than welcome to forward any other feedback directly to our engineers by clicking the Gear icon and looking for Feedback. Otherwise, I'd recommend trying another workaround to paying your staff both salary plus hourly. You can also do this by taking advantage of the Other earnings pay type. Other earnings are taxable payments to your employee and they are separate from regular wages, such as retroactive pay increases and severance pay. These amounts are included in the wage base and used to calculate percentage-driven deductions. It's essential to note that you'd have to manually calculate the dollar amount of the earnings and enter those amounts on your run payroll screen to reflect the additional pay. 

 

Let me know if this info helps. I'll be on standby in case you have other questions. 

C
CEO_of_TooManyHats_IncAuthor
February 26, 2021

James,

 

Thank you for this message. I have sent this feature request as feedback as well. My post here is to help others understand that this is currently not a feature, and I will mark it as answered once the feature has been added.

 

I briefly considered the workaround you described, but decided against it after realizing it may cause discrepancies with hours worked on future ROEs.

J
JamesM4
Level 6
February 26, 2021

I see what you're saying. Thanks for taking the time to go through the workaround. If I hear more about this feature, I'll make sure to reach back to you right away. Otherwise, feel free to ask questions, I'm here to help. 

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