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I am in the process of setting up Payroll in a new company. We already have payroll set up in another company and are trying to recreate their settings in the new one. I tried using import/export, but for various reasons 98% of the information wouldn…

I have updated Sage 50 Payroll to 20240101. The federal tax brackets were to change for 2024, but when I go process payroll for the new year the federal amounts for all employees have stayed the same as 2023. Spoke to support yesterday and all they said…

I am needing to change the percentage of a deduction for an employee. How can this be done? The deduction is a state retirement fund that is not listed under the benefits tab. It is being paid by both the employee and employer. The percentage is increasing…

I have a payroll question related to fringes and employee IRA contributions. This is a simple IRA and is taken before taxes. I have the fringes set up as a benefit on the appropriate paygroups with an offset for each employee based on the benefits we…

This tax is paid on WA hours worked by WA employees. I cannot get it to calculate that way. It calculates on all hours worked. Even the hours worked in Oregon, which do not have to be included. How do I set this up? After many hours with support, the…

Is there a way to setup a payroll formula to set up a new Pay ID that adds a premium to regular rate for a shift differential? We do not want to add the shift column to our time entry since we use hh2 and it would cause changes in how we import time from…

We are running Sage 18.4.1. We just went live a couple weeks ago and noticed something was off with our fringe calculations. In the Union set up the pays and fringes are set to total hours as the calc method. The fringes should be only calculated based…

Good Morning, I am new to the Sage Community about 4 months. I am evaluating the leave balances and accruals for all of our employees and I am having some concerns as to the set up. We have employees that earn 40 hours a year (new Hires) then after…

On the Calculations tab for an Employee (5-2-1) how do I specify that the Federal allowances specified on the employee's W-4 is "married but withhold at higher single rate"?

Looking for a formulaa to simply look into the PR-Check table and return to me an employees maximum date within the Pay Period End Date field . As the help file suggests, the MAX function is only used for numbers and Sage doesnt like it when I try to…

We are trying to create a formula that will provide the hourly rate for an employee that can then be used in fringe calculation formulas. I can use a basic LOOKUP if there are only 2 Pay IDs. We have 4 different Pay IDs under two Pay Groups that we need…

I am trying to create a formula that will "reset" the number of hours an employee has accrued on the anniversary of their hire date. For example, if I have 56 hours of sick & my hire date is 9/5/2016, I want it to "reset" to 40 on 9/5/2017. If I only…

I need to first compare 15% of Gross Pay to a flat amount of $114.75. If 15% of Gross Pay is greater than $114.75, then use $114.75. If 15% of Gross Pay is less than or equal to $114.75, then use 15% of Gross Pay. Here is the formula I have so far that…

Can I set up a payroll formula for my employer portion of Simple IRA to say 3% but not greater than the employees contribution? I have a few EEs who contribute a flat rate and I am not sure how to get them to calculate the 3% and then one who is paid…

Do I just need to close my current month (December) first and download the service pack? Will the service pack change my w-2 numbers because of the new 2017 tax tables even if December is closed before it is downloaded? Can I still make changes to…

We have a City tax for employees who work within city limits. We use the Locale option to calculate this. It was recently discovered that if employees live in another state, the Locale does not allow the individual's state tax to calculate. We have several…

Help with Over Time formula.

I have set up our payroll calculations. Under our state unemployment our rate is 2.4% and I have it set up that way however it is only calculating 1.8%.....HELP??!!