Salaried Employee paid semi monthly calculating incorrectly.

Hi Elise.

Thank you for sharing the details of your concern here on the Community forum. I'm here to help you with paying your employee with the correct pay schedule.

QuickBooks is dependent on whatever set up you have on your file. Thus, before running payroll for your new employee, I recommend checking the option selected on the employee's payroll schedule. I'll guide you how.

1. Open your QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT) file.
2. Go to the Employees tab, then click on Employee Center.
3. Look for the employee's name, then go to the Payroll Info section.
4. Make sure to set the employee's pay schedule and frequency to Semi-Monthly.
5. Hit OK to save the changes.

Once done, you're now ready to process your employee's paycheck. For your guide, you can open this link: Get Started with Payroll.

Moreover, you can check out this article for more hints about paying and filing your payroll taxes: Pay and file your payroll taxes online.

Please let me know how else I can help you with handling your payroll transactions. I'm always here to help. Have a good one!

As I said in my original message, the Payroll Schedule is already set up as Semi Monthly. However, QB is not calculating it that way.

We can get the latest payroll updates, Elise-K. 

Updating QuickBooks and the latest payroll tax table will refresh the system and download up-to-date fixes and features. Let me show you how to update the system:

1. Go to the Help menu and select Update QuickBooks Desktop.
2. Click the Update Now tab. Select the Reset Update checkbox to clear all previous update downloads.
3. Select Get Updates to start the download.
4. When the download finishes, restart QuickBooks.
5. Accept the option to install the new release when prompted.

Then, follow these steps on how to update your payroll tax table: 

1. Select Employees, then select Get Payroll Updates.
2. Click the Download Entire Update checkbox.
3. Select Download Latest Update. You'll be prompted once the download is complete.

After the updates are done, you can try creating a paycheck to see if QuickBooks now calculates based on your pay schedule. You can use the article for more details in running payroll: Payroll items on a paycheck are not calculating or are calculating incorrectly.

Feel free to mention me if you need more help. Take care!

Thank you SO much Catherine! That worked!