Find out why sick and vacation time doesn’t accrue on paychecks and learn how to fix it in your QuickBooks Payroll.
Sick or vacation is accruing incorrectly
This could be a couple of things:
- Your accrual set up might be incorrect. Check out, Set up and track time off in payroll to set up or change vacation and time off.
- You may have time off set to accrue on sick and vacation hours paid.
If you don’t want sick or vacation hours paid to accrue:
- Go to Edit, then Preferences.
- Select Payroll & Employees, then Company Preferences.
- Select Sick and Vacation.
- In the Sick and Vacation Accrual section, under Do not accrue employee sick and vacation hours for, select Sick and vacation hours paid.
- Select OK twice.
Sick or vacation doesn’t accrue on a paycheck
This could be a couple of things:
- Your employee hit the accrual limit. Check your employee setup.
- Go to Employees, then Employee Center.
- Double-click the name of the employee.
- Select Payroll Info, then Sick/Vacation.
- Verify the Maximum number of hours to accrue and adjust if needed.
- Select OK twice.
- Vacation and sick only accrue on certain payroll items.
- It only accrues on Annual Salary, Hourly Wages and Commission items.
- It doesn’t accrue on Bonus items and Addition items.