Changing payroll categories

Payroll Categories Overview > Changing payroll categories

Occasionally, you'll find it necessary to make a change to a payroll category.

Warning: Changing payroll categories affects all employees who are assigned those payroll categories

Keep in mind that when you change a payroll category, you change the payroll category for all employees who are assigned that payroll category. Most likely, the employees' paycheque amounts will be different after you change their payroll categories. You may find it easier to create a new pay category and assign it to the affected employees, rather than change an existing category.

You can change any entitlement, or deduction in the Accounting Plus system. You can also change any wage, except the Base Salary and Base Hourly wages. Employer expenses can be changed, although with some, like NI Employer Contributions, NIC Rebate, SMP and SSP Recovery only the linked accounts may be changed.

Accounts are linked to payroll categories so all payroll-related amounts can be tracked properly. Default payroll linked accounts are assigned automatically when you set up Payroll, so you may not need to change them. If you want to change an individual wage, deduction, entitlement or employer expense's linked account, you can.

You can have only one wage expense account for each employee; you can change the account using the Employee Payroll Information window for that employee.

Since the accuracy of your payroll records is at stake, you can't add, change or remove any payroll taxes from MYOB Accounting Plus's tax tables. You can, however, change the account that you want to use to track the payroll taxes that you withhold from paycheques. For information about paying payroll taxes to the appropriate government agencies, see Paying PAYE and NIC's.

Click below for the step-by-step procedure:

To change a wage

To change an employee's wage's linked account

To change an entitlement

To change a deduction

To change a deduction's linked account

To change an employer expense

To change an employer expense's linked account

To change a payroll tax's linked account