How can I pay an employee for administrative time as well as project hours?

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You can use the timesheet feature to pay your employee for an administrative time as well as project hours in QuickBooks Online (QBO). I'll gladly share further insights about this and guide you through the process to pay your employee accordingly.

When you create a timesheet (marked as billable and linked to an employee), you can use that data to calculate the hours for payroll, and your paychecks will show up under a project. To do this, here's how:

1. Go to the + New button.
2. Under Employees, select Single time activity or Weekly timesheet.
3. From the small arrow ▼ icons, select the name of the employee and the week you want to record.
4. Choose a customer from the dropdown ▼ if you want to bill the activity to the customer or track expenses for the customer.
5. Select the Billable checkbox.
6. Fill in all the necessary information.
7. Once done, select Save or Save and new.

You can refer to these articles if you wish to learn more about how the Projects feature works in QuickBooks: 

• Set up and create projects in QuickBooks Online
• Projects FAQ

Also, you can use projects to track your labor costs and profitability. You may want to check out this article as your reference to guide you in performing the process in QBO: Track hourly labor cost and profitability by project in QuickBooks Online.

Please feel free to leave a comment below if you have other payroll and project concerns or questions about managing employee transactions QBO. I'm always ready to help. Take care.