Handling vacation checks in Payroll (O/T)

It isn’t unusual for employees going on vacation to ask for their vacation check before they leave.   What can be tricky though, is if you include both their regular and vacation amounts in the same check, the software will generate taxes based on that extra amount.  This will deduct an overstated amount of taxes from the employee’s check.

To generate a vacation check in addition to the employee’s normal weekly check, enter the normal weekly hours as usual. Then drop down and change the sequence number for the vacation hours you enter. When calculated, two checks will be generated with the regular tax deductions

To generate two checks for a salaried employee, calculate checks as usual then ‘add’ a manual check using the vacation pay-code for this employee. Calculate that one check and process payroll as usual to get two checks.