Tech Note: How to Post Employee Additional Earnings

There may be times when your company must pay employees additional earnings such as bonuses, commissions, personal use of company vehicle and other earnings. You may be paying these additional earnings to your employees as part of their regular paycheck or paying them in a separate check. AccountMate provides the flexibility to use either of these two methods.

You may also apply withholding taxes and personal deductions to additional earnings as needed. And you can generate a separate report that tracks those additional earnings.

Article #1182: How to Post Employee Additional Earnings covers the procedure to post payment of additional earnings for each method, as well as the procedures to apply withholding taxes and personal deductions to these additional earnings. Samples are included that illustrate the appropriate use of each method.