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You may edit details for a specific pay item for the selected employee. Only fields that are applicable to the selected pay item will be accessible.
Employees window. Access this tab from the Earnings tab of the Setup > Employees window by clicking the 
button for a specific pay item (or by selecting Item Properties from the Edit menu), and then choosing the Pay Info tab of the Pay Item Properties dialog.
Employee Information dialog. Open this dialog from the Earnings tab of the Employee Information dialog by clicking the button for a specific pay item (or by selecting Item Properties from the Edit menu) and then choosing the Pay Info tab of the Pay Item Properties dialog.
See also: Overview of employee setup
Fields & buttons
Displays the description of the selected pay item.
Choose one of the following options from the drop-down list:
- Hourly
- Linked to Other
- Salaried - Hours Sensitive
(Reported hours can affect the amount of pay for a salaried employee who works more or fewer hours than the standard number of hours for a given period.)
- Salaried - Hours Insensitive
(Allows you to track hours without affecting pay for a salaried employee.)
This field defaults to the frequency setting on the Calculating Payroll tab of the Client Properties dialog, but you may choose a different frequency from the following options on the drop-down list:
- Daily
- Weekly
- Bi-Weekly
- Twice Monthly
- Monthly
- Quarterly
- Semi-annually
- Annually
- Non-periodic
Note: When the calculation profile for payroll check entry is single frequency and an employee has pay items with differing frequencies (other than Non-periodic), that employee will not display in the Employee drop-down list in the Payroll Check Entry window.
This field is accessible only if the wage type is Linked to Other. Using the drop-down list, choose one of the other pay items currently assigned to this employee.
When one item is linked to another, changes made to the rate of the item it is linked to will also apply to the item itself. This is specifically designed to be used for vacation, sick pay, and other benefit accruals so that the rates for those are tied to the rate of the employee's normal wage; thus, a change in the rate only needs to be recorded for a single item rather than for all benefit accruals.
Note: The Rate field for this pay item is not accessible in the Earnings grid but may be accessed during payroll check entry.
Displays the special type category (if any) for the selected pay item.
- If the special pay type is EIC , you can specify the EIC table to use for this employee. By default, the application will use the EIC table specified globally for the pay item, but you can modify that selection here for the current employee.
- If the special pay type is Commissions, enter the percentage of sales to use for this pay item for this employee.
- If the special pay type is Reported Tips, you may enter either the percentage of sales or the dollars per hour to use for this pay item for this employee.
Notes
A special type for a pay item is global information and can be defined (on the Special Information tab of the Setup > System Configuration > Pay Items dialog) as being any of the following special types:
- <None> (default selection)
- Accruable Benefit
- Allocated Tips
- Calc - % of Conditional Pay
- Calc - % of Pay
- Calc - Conditional Hourly Amt
- Calc - Fixed Amount
- Commissions
- EIC Advance
- Indirect Tip
- Reported Tips
- TDW (tips deemed wages) Reduction
Tipped Wages
- Tips Deemed to be Wages
During the pay item setup procedure, the default setup definition for some tip-related special pay types automatically marks some or all of the checkboxes listed below, but if necessary these settings may be overridden in the Pay Items dialog:
Exclude from net pay
Exclude from gross pay presentation
Exclude from weighted average overtime calc
% of sales <percentage>
If the special pay type is Commissions, enter the percentage of sales to use for this pay item for this employee.
If the special pay type is Reported Tips, you may enter either the percentage of sales or the dollars per hour to use for this pay item for this employee.
$ per hour <amount>
If the special pay type is Reported Tips, you may enter either the percentage of sales or the dollars per hour to use for this pay item for this employee.
If the special pay type is Calc - Fixed Amount, you may enter the fixed amount to use for this pay item for this employee.
If the special pay type is Calc - % of Pay or Calc - % of Conditional Pay, you may enter the percentage to use for this pay item for this employee.
Available for salaried pay items only.
When this checkbox is marked, no amount for this salaried pay item will calculate on a payroll check for the employee unless hours are entered in the Payroll Items grid of the Payroll Check Entry window.
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