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Blue-River
July 6, 2022
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holiday pay for salaried employee

  • July 6, 2022
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I need to pay a salaried employee 1.5 for a holiday that he had to work.  I've created the Salary Holiday payroll item and followed all of the directions is the article: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/learn-support/en-us/help-article/special-payroll/pay-salaried-employee-holiday-pay-quickbooks/L0cTZwo2l_US_en_US?uid=l58t3tgz.

However, this doesn't give the employee any additional pay.  His gross is still the amount it is on each payroll.  It's reducing his salary by the number of hours of holiday pay.  He needs to get about $100 more on this check.

I tried adding the Salary Holiday to his employee payroll earnings chart but it won't allow a different annual rate (tried 1.5x salary).

Do I need to do this as an additional item that is .5x his salary per hour rate?  This is the only way I can see to increase his pay.  Am I right?

Thank you! Katie 

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BigRedConsulting
BigRedConsulting
July 6, 2022

Yes, salary items will always do this - will keep the salary the same - because salaries stay the same regardless of how much an employee works.

 

In the case you want to give a salaried employee more pay, for something like working a holiday, use an hourly earnings type item and enter the extra hours x the additional rate per hour.  That will add to the employee's pay, where messing with different types of salary items won't.

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