Hi brookwoodcustomb,
Welcome to the Community. Glad to learn to learn you're using the Payroll module to help streamline your work. I'll be happy to assist you so you're on the right track.
With the payroll module, you can add the total of hours when running payroll so they employee can get paid at the hourly rate you'd have set. You can also manually calculate and enter the hours for each of your hourly employees. To learn more about running payroll, feel free to check out this article here.
Let me know if this info helps. I'll be a message away in case you need additional assistance.