Sometimes you’ll have an employee who works some hours at one hourly rate and other hours at a different hourly rate, depending on their duties. Although each employee’s card only has one spot where you can record their hourly rate, you can get around this by creating a new wages category for each additional hourly rate that you require.

For example, imagine an employee who sometimes works as a waitress earning $18 per hour, sometimes as a receptionist earning $20 per hour and occasionally as a night auditor at $25 per hour. You would set her Hourly Base Pay at $18 per hour, but then you would create two new wages categories: one called Base Hourly – Reception with a Fixed Hourly Rate of $20, and another called Base Hourly – Night Auditor with a Fixed Hourly Rate of $25.

With these categories in place, and selected in the Wages section of the employee’s card, you could then process the employee’s pay recording the number of hours working at each different task.

The contents from this page are taken from Making the Most of MYOB Payroll, 2nd edition, by Veechi Curtis, available online for only $19.95

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