Keeping owner's salary private

I appreciate you for sharing this idea with us, @JayBolt.

While you can limit what other users can see in your QuickBooks, for your case, keeping your salary private to anyone who will have the payroll job function isn't possible and advisable. The same thing applies to someone who will buy and own your business.

After identifying those limitations, we will chart a new way forward respecting both the needs of employers and employees.

I'm adding these guides that provide an overview of setting up an employee’s user type and role as well as its restrictions:

• QuickBooks Desktop Users and Restrictions
• Create and manage roles in QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise
• Users/Roles in QuickBooks

Should you have questions or concerns, please reach out to me anytime. I'll be here for you. Thanks for visiting us today, and have a wonderful week ahead, JayBolt.

@JayBolt 

There isn't a way to keep select employees' salaries private while giving rights to a QB user to see payroll or banking information - or rights enough to do the payroll.

You could remove the salary from the employee record(s), but the paychecks will still include the past pay. So, any rights that allow viewing of the bank registers or reports that might include payroll will reveal the salary.