There are two ways to set hourly rates for employees in Saasu:

Hourly rates for Employees using the Employee Details screen

In the Employees Details screen you can set the individual employees hourly rates.

These rates are used in payroll transactions when the Hourly Rate Pay Item is set to be the product of a multiplier and the regular hourly rate. e.g. 1 x ‘regular hourly rate’ from the employee details screen.

Hourly rate using an hourly rate Pay Item

In the Pay Item screen you can setup your Pay Item to use a fixed Hourly Rate for all employees pays who use this Pay item. Importantly the Employee Details screen hourly rate is ignored if one exists when you use this Pay Item.

FAQ’s

My employees hourly pay rates have changed but new pays don’t show the change?

Here are some possible causes:

• If you are tracking pays using a Pay Item hourly rate then it needs to be updated. Just updating the Employees Details screen won’t affect the Pay Item because many Employees may use the same Pay Item in the Payroll transactions.
• If you are tracking pays using the employees details screens Hourly rate then make sure your Pay Item (such as Base pay Hourly) is set to an hourly rate such as ‘1 x regular hourly rate’. From the Setup Pay Items screen click on the Base Pay Hourly pencil icon to edit it.
• Duplicating old pays and just changing the hours will carry over old pay rate details. You need to create the payroll transactions fresh using the add payroll screen and selecting the employee from the drop down list.
• If using a Pay Item that takes hours from Timesheets make sure the Pay Item has had it’s rate up dated or if relying on the hourly rate in the individual employees details screens then have this set to ‘Hourly’ and ‘1 x regular hourly rate’ (or update the fixed hourly rate if using that option).