Income types must be grouped together into Categories for totaling and, if applicable, costing and leave accrual purposes. You can use one of the standard income categories, as well as define your own. Choose Setups, Payroll, Options, Payroll Options, Other Options tab to define these income categories. (Use the Income Category 1 or Income Category 2 field).

You would allocate all overtime income types to the overtime category, and you would allocate all Annual leave to the annual leave category. The hours entered against the leave category in the income type selection (e.g. Annual leave) will affect the leave accrual details of the employee.

The data entry method that operators use with the income type (usually, hours).

You can specify that operators need to enter: the total number of hours or the start and stop times.

A factor by which Attaché Payroll multiplies an employee's rate of pay under specific circumstances.

If you pay overtime rates of time-and-a-half and double-time, set up two income types – one with a Rate Multiplier of 1.5 and the other with a Rate Multiplier of 2.

A separate hourly rate that Attaché Payroll adds to the employee's normal rate for each hour worked.

If you pay an extra $1.20 per hour to employees who work at a dangerous height, set up an income type with an Additional Amount of 1.2.

🤓 Tip: If you want Attaché Payroll to use only the Additional Amount as the hourly rate and to ignore each employee's hourly rate, set the Rate Multiplier to 0.

Let's you specify whether Attaché Payroll rounds the number of hours before calculating income.

You can specify that hours are rounded down to the nearest 30 minutes.

Let's operators enter the actual date on which an employee worked. During transaction entry, Attaché Payroll displays an additional date field. The operator enters a separate line for each day to which the income type applies. Note: If the operator does not enter a date, Attaché Payroll uses the Pay Period Ending Date.

If you want to keep track of sick leave taken, set the Allow Date Entry field to Yes when you set up income types for sick leave.

If you wish to include an income type as part of the employee's Ordinary Time Earnings for the calculation of other payments such as superannuation, select this checkbox.

If annual leave is deemed as part of Ordinary Time Earnings, the selection of this tick box will calculate superannuation on annual leave payouts.

Used to group income types on the pay advice.

To display each income type as a separate line set the check box to No.

Determines if this income is included in the calculation of the monthly super guarantee threshold.

If annual leave payouts are to be included in the calculation of whether an employee has met the Superannuation Guarantee threshold, then select this check box. For example, the employee has earned $200 in a month in normal hours, as well as $750 in annual leave payouts. If the check box is NOT selected on the leave income type, then the employee has not met the SG threshold, and no superannuation will be paid. If the check box is selected on the leave income type, then the employee has met the SG threshold.

Page Down to enter the GL Expense Account code to be used in the General Ledger journals. Paying income to an employee is an expense for the employer. Therefore, when processing such payments, a journal is created to the expense account.