With QuickBooks online, how do a I payout accrued vacation on a final paycheck?

Hello finance--newlife,

I'm glad to see you posting here regarding your payroll. I'm here to help you pay out accrued vacation in a payroll.

First, check the remaining vacation hours of your employee on their profile. This way, you'll know the amount to enter on the paycheck.

Once you have the information, you can process the final check and include the remaining vacation time.

Here's how:

1. On the left navigation bar, hover your cursor to Payroll.
2. Select Employees.
3. Review the vacation hours.
4. Click Run payroll.
5. Choose your desired payroll schedule, then hit Continue.
6. Select the employee.
7. Find your employee and add their sick pay or vacation pay hours.
8. Select Preview payroll.
9. Review the payroll details. If everything looks good, select Submit payroll.

Also, you can edit or change pay types to pay employees. I've attached an article you can visit to learn more about the process in QuickBooks: Add or change pay types.

Keep us posted if you need anything else regarding processing the final payout or adding vacation pay. We'll be around to lend a hand. Have a great day.

Thanks for the information.  However, when I did that, it reduced her salary hours by the amount of unpaid vacation.  To resolve this, I created a second check and put in the vacation time and edited the check to remove the salary pay for this check only.  Thanks.

I had the same problem with a salaried employee, and I also had to issue an additional check. I would like to know whether QBO has a better way to process the final check for a salaried employee or whether we need to continue to write two checks.

Thanks for joining this thread, @adminESI. 

I appreciate the workaround you've shared on how you pay out your salaried employees with their accrued vacation time. As of now, I agree that you should continue with writing two checks to pay out your employees.

After paying out your employees, you can run a payroll report to get a closer look at your business' finances.

Let me know if you have other concerns about your payroll. I'm here to assist. Keep safe.