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11 days ago

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Can you pay both hourly rate and salaried Employees?

I have a MYOB Business Pro account, and some of our employees are transitioning from being paid salaries to hourly wages. My question is: can MYOB Business handle paying both types of employees—those still on salaries and those now on hourly pay?

My online searches strongly suggest this is possible, but when I try to find specific steps or detailed instructions, the information seems lacking. The only details I can find indicate that separate pay runs are required for salaried and hourly employees.

Could someone please clarify whether this is correct, and if possible, provide the exact steps or further details on how to pay both employee types within MYOB?

Princess_R
11 days ago
Hi Bryan13,

Absolutely! MYOB Business Pro can handle both salaried and hourly employees in the same pay run. The main things that matter are the employee’s pay cycle and how their pay items are set up. Salaried employees should be set up with a salary-based pay item, while hourly employees should use an hourly wage pay item. I’ve also popped a few helpful articles below that might be handy:

Processing your payroll

Changing an employee’s salary or hourly rate

Set up payroll

Cheers,

Princess

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Princess_R
MYOB Moderator
11 days ago
Hi Bryan13,

Absolutely! MYOB Business Pro can handle both salaried and hourly employees in the same pay run. The main things that matter are the employee’s pay cycle and how their pay items are set up. Salaried employees should be set up with a salary-based pay item, while hourly employees should use an hourly wage pay item. I’ve also popped a few helpful articles below that might be handy:

Processing your payroll

Changing an employee’s salary or hourly rate

Set up payroll

Cheers,

Princess
Genreve_S
MYOB Moderator
9 days ago
Hi Bryan13,

Yep, to capture timesheets for hourly employees, Timesheets does need to be turned on in Payroll Settings. Once it’s enabled, hourly employees can use timesheets and salaried employees will still be paid as usual. If you are keen to learn more about how timesheets work, you can read through this link.

Cheers,

Genreve
Bryan13
Member
9 days ago
Thank you, Princess.

I couldn’t find an answer to the following question in the articles you linked to above: Can you confirm that 'Timesheets' must be enabled in the Payroll Settings to capture timesheets for hourly employees? If so, and if 'Timesheets' is turned on, will salaried employees still be paid as usual? I know the answer may seem obvious, but I just wanted to confirm.
Bryan13
Member
1 hour ago
Thanks Genreve.