Salary payroll

There isn't a way to do that QuickBooks using annual salary payroll items. In QuickBooks a salaried employee has one salary, which reflects US payroll regulations: Salaried employees have one fixed salary that is paid regularly for a period of work, like a week or two weeks or even a month.

You can split that salary up between different salary items, but the salary total will stay the same, which is the correct behavior, regardless of how time worked is allocated to the different salary items on the earnings table of the paycheck.

The problem I am having is when I pick different salary items, the software wants to divide the total salary evenly between the salary items.  I don't want it to evenly split the total salary because the jobs have a different salary.  How do I get around this issue?

I was planning to total the salary of both jobs.  My problem is when I try to split the total between salary items, the software evenly splits the total between the different salary items.  That won't work because the jobs have different annual salaries.  How do I get the salary items to list the proper amount and not have the total split evenly?

Hello there, @WUMC-SS.

I can see how important it is for you to be able to assign two different annual pay rates to your salaried employee in QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT). However, @BigRedConsulting is right that it isn't possible in QuickBooks since we're following US' Payroll Laws and Regulations.

Pertaining to the workaround you're utilizing right now, splitting the total between salary items unevenly is unavailable. With this, I'd recommend consulting your accountant on what's the best alternative for handling this. If you don’t have one yet, you can visit our ProAdvisor website to find an expert. They can provide hands-on support from technical and accounting perspectives.

Additionally, here's an article that'll help you keep track of your payroll expenses by department, business office, location, or separate properties you own: Set up track your payroll expenses by class.

Fill me in if you have more queries about managing your payroll items in QuickBooks Desktop. I'd be glad to assist you further. Take care.

@WUMC-SS 

RE: How do I get the salary items to list the proper amount and not have the total split evenly?

To do this, enter hours on the paycheck, split according to the percentage/ratio for each salary item.

For example, assuming a weekly payroll, if your presumed full-time hours for salaried employees is 40 hours (which is typical), and for an employee with a $52,000 salary, so $1000 a week, where you want 75% on one job and 25% on the other, enter 30 hours for one job and 10 hours for the other. QuickBooks will then pro-rate the salary based on the hours worked. It'll look like this on the paycheck:

Note that on the employee records, both (really all) salary items will list the total salary - $52,000 in this example. But, even so the total earnings will be $1000 per week as expected.

You can also use this technique in order to split the time worked for different classes or customer:jobs where you might or might not be using more than one salary item.

@QueenC  RE: Pertaining to the workaround you're utilizing right now, splitting the total between salary items unevenly is unavailable. 

Of course it's available. It has been available for more than two decades, back sometime into the last century. Which you should know, given that you're here answering questions for Intuit.

Can you explain how to do this??????