Can an employee have 2 different wage expense accounts

Good day, finance106.

In QuickBooks Online, you can only select one wage expense account for different employees. The other option is to use different accounts for different wages. 

Here's how:

1. Go to the Gear > Payroll Settings.
2. Under Preferences, click Accounting.
3. Choose I use different accounts for different groups of employees or I use different accounts for different wages under How do you categorize wage expenses? section.
4. Select the account and click OK once done.

I've got this article for reference: Payroll accounting preferences.

Please let me know if you need more help with QuickBooks Online. Take care and stay safe.

can this be done on Payroll Desktop?

@finance106  Can this be done on Desktop Payroll?

Thanks for joining in on this thread, MIslas8. Allow me to chime in and share details about wage expense accounts.

With QuickBooks Desktop Payroll, we can only assign or select one wage expense account for every employee. The options provided by my colleague above will only work on the online version. With that, I'd suggest sending a feature request to our product developers. They may consider your suggestion and include them in our future product updates.

Your product idea may be relevant to other users. Here's how to submit feedback:

1. Go to the Help menu at the top and select Send Feedback Online.
2. Click on Product Suggestion and enter your feedback or suggestion.
3. Once done, tap Send feedback.

Moreover, you can check out this article to guide you in setting up a time tracking feature in your payroll: Set up time tracking in QuickBooks Desktop Payroll.

Keep us posted if you require additional assistance managing payroll. We'd be glad to assist you further. Take care.