Apply Payroll Expenses to Jobs
You can apply an employee's salary to up to 30 different jobs. For hourly
employees, you can apply hours worked to a job. For salaried employees,
you can apply amounts to a job. To do so, select the Jobs
button from the toolbar of the Payroll
Entry window. On the Labor Distribution
to Jobs window, you can specify the hours and amounts that
should be applied to jobs.
Step-by-step instructions
- From the Tasks
menu, select Payroll Entry. Sage 50
displays the Payroll Entry window.
- Enter or select the employee ID. To display a
list of existing employees, type ?
in the Employee ID field or select
the drop-down button.
- Select the Jobs
button. Sage 50 displays the Labor
Distribution to Jobs window.
- Select the Job
field beside the type of salaried or hourly work the employee did on this
particular job (Salaried, Bonus, Commission, and so on).
- Enter or select the
to which you want to apply hours (for hourly employees) or an amount (for
salaried employees). To display a list of existing jobs, type ?
in this field, or select the drop-down button.
- Enter values in the Amount
field as follows:
- For hourly employees, enter the hours worked
for each job. Don't forget to use a decimal. The Amount field displays
a running subtotal of the hours charged to this job.
- For salaried employees, enter the portion
of this employee's salary that should be charged to the job.
Only the hourly and salaried fields that have amounts entered for
them in the Payroll entry window are displayed.
- Change the Labor Burden percentages or amounts
if necessary.
- Repeat steps 5 and 6
and 7 as many times as necessary for this employee. Then select OK to save your entries or Cancel to cancel.
- Finish entering the payroll information for this
employee as usual.
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