The External Codes window will open. Click on Employees to see the list of employees for the tax years selected. If the current tax year is not available in the calendar year dropdown list, then go back and complete Step 2 and Step 3 to create the payroll defaults and create the tax tables for the current year.
To create a new employee, click on the Add button.
The Employee, Employment, and Payroll Info window will open. Step 1 of the employee setup wizard allows you to add or change employee payroll details like hourly or salaried, pay period frequencies, federal and state filing statuses and the number of exemptions respectively.
Step 2 of the wizard is where you define the hourly pay rate or salaried gross pay amount along with any extra withholding amounts or any limits per deduction.
Click the button Retrieve Default Items to populate the grids with any new customized earnings or deductions from Step 2.
Click the button Local/Custom Rules to add/update rules which may expose local/custom percentage fields if definable for each employee. Also, if the farm operating state has special calculation rules with tax rates defined in the tax table for additional “Special” and/or “More” Allowances then it will expose these number of allowance fields respectively on Page 1.
