To pay employees and maintain their records, employee records need to be set up.
Before setting up a new employee record, the below areas need to be set up first:
- Set up a new Base Pay Rate
- Set up a new Superannuation Fund
- Set up a new Bank
- Set up a new Tax Table (set up if not already done previously)
- Set up new Allowances (set up if not already done previously)
- Set up a new Award (set up if not already done previously)
To create a new employee record:
- From the Wage Easy Payroll menu, click Employee > New Employee Wizard
- The wizard will open. Click Next
- Click Next
- Fill in the boxes with the employees details as shown in the example below
Note: the fields highlighted with the red boxes in the following steps will need to be filled in before you can continue
- Click Next
- Leave the employee number as it is and click Next
- Fill in the employee’s address details as shown in this example. Click Next
- Select the appropriate department for the employee (if you only have one, click Next)
- Fill in the employment information
- Salaried Employee: Check if you do not want to display the number of hours worked by the employee (optional)
- Use Standard Pays: Check if your employee works the same number of hours during the pay period
- Standard Hours: Enter the number of hours your employee works for the pay period
- Click Next
- Choose a payment method to pay your employee. If you choose Bank, select the bank your employee uses and fill in the details. Click Next
- Select the appropriate tax table for the employee from the list and fill in the employee’s Tax File Number. Click Next
- Select a Superannuation fund from the dropdown list and enter the employee’s Superannuation fund member number. Click Next
- Click Finish at the completion of each record
Next step:
- For businesses with full-time and/or part time staff, set up your employees' leave accruals
- For businesses with only casual employees, set up the following below as required
- Set up predefined timesheets (optional)
- Set up child support (optional)
- Set up salary sacrifice (super) (optional)
- Set up salary sacrifice (non super) (optional)
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