earnings that accrue vacation

Hello Hhanson9999,

Thanks for connecting with us here. QuickBooks is designed to help you streamline your work using the powerful features offered in the program. Rest assured, I'll be happy to provide more info so you're on the right path. 

The function you've described above isn't available in QuickBooks. I  can see the benefit of having this and I encourage you to send feedback about this to our engineers. You can do this by clicking on the Help menu and looking for Send Feedback Online.

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Do all of your employees all have the same items that accrue vacation?  You can set a New Employee Preference that defaults with these items.  You have to be Logged in with Admin permissions, in single user mode, then go to Preferences, Employees and Payroll, Company and you'll find it there!  If your employees have various items, set the defaults for the majority and then manually change when you're setting up an exception employee.  There is no way to do a mass update of all current employees though.