MYOB Payroll and Updating Employees' Pay Rates

When wages increase, all you have to do is go to Wages, found under the Payroll Details tab on each employee’s card, and edit either their Annual Salary or their Hourly Rate. (Sadly, even if you have 10 employees all on the same hourly rate, you can't update this rate globally -- you have to edit each employee, one by one.)

If you employ juniors under 21 years of age, make sure you don’t forget annual wage increases. Go to the Contact Log in each employee’s card and create a New Log Entry with the employee’s next birthday as the Recontact Date. This log will then come up under the Contact Alert tab of your To Do List when their birthday comes around. To make sure you don’t forget to look in your To Do List, go to your Preferences menu, click the Windows tab and select the option Display To Do List When Starting MYOB Software.

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When you change the rate on a employee’s card, you get a message saying that this change will impact the standard pay for this employee. That’s okay, but do go to the Standard Pay information for that employee and check that all their other details are still correct. Sometimes, changing the pay rate in the Wages section of an employee’s card means that things like shift loadings and deductions in the Standard Pay section reset themselves to zero.

The contents from this page are taken from the MYOB Payroll eBook series, by Veechi Curtis, available online for only $9.95 each.

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