50 A Handy Guide to the Payroll Register
Patriot Software
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
Payroll has a lot of moving parts to keep track of: employee hours, gross pay, net pay, payroll taxes, employee deductions, employer contributions, and the list goes on.
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Are Payroll Deductions for Health Insurance Pre-Tax? The Answer You Need to Know
Patriot Software
JUNE 21, 2021
If you have your employees contribute to their premiums, you have to know how to deduct the cost from their gross pay. Providing health insurance benefits to your employees can leave you with a lot of questions.
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Employee Benefits
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Donations are tax-effective because they are taken from gross pay, which means the charity get more of employees’ donations and it costs the donor less.
Your Guide to Take-home Pay
Patriot Software
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
After you subtract all of the taxes and other deductions, money left over is considered take-home pay. Read on to learn more about what is take-home pay and how to calculate it. What is take home pay? Take-home pay consists of the income an individual receives after taxes, benefits, and other contributions are deducted. Take-home pay may also be called net pay. An employee’s take-home pay is the difference between their gross pay and deductions.
What Is a Qualified Retirement Plan?
HR Lineup
MARCH 13, 2022
In a defined benefit plan, an employer pays a predetermined amount at either termination of employment or retirement. However, to qualify for such credits, your business must not have more than 100 employees who earned $5,000 gross pay the previous year.
Labor Rights in Norway
Global People Strategist
JANUARY 26, 2022
Vacation pay will replace your normal salary and will consist of 10.2% of the gross salary. For employees who are more than 60 years of age, the holiday pay will be 12.5% of their gross pay.
Employment Laws in Bermuda
Global People Strategist
JUNE 27, 2021
According to the Act, overtime pay is essential unless a prior contract has been drawn. Generally, employees who work overtime for more than 40 hours per week must be given overtime pay. The employment laws in Bermuda are governed by the Employment Act 2000.
Top 5 reasons to check your payslip
cipHR
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Despite their importance for keeping track of our pay, as many as one in twelve people (8%) admit that they rarely (or never) look at them. This means people can earn £12,500 tax-free, and only start paying tax on income over that amount.
3 Surprising Benefits Of A Salary Sacrifice Scheme
Employee Benefits
DECEMBER 21, 2021
From April 2017 these vehicles were included in the group of non-cash benefits which allowed the employee to take the salary hit on their gross pay, rather than their nett pay.
Paying Attention to Pay Statement Data Requirements Pays Off for Employers
CIC Plus
APRIL 6, 2021
The laws surrounding information employers must include on pay statements is generally well established. However, that does not mean it’s an area that employers can ignore, as a new wave of wage theft protection laws has added emphasis, and data elements, to pay statements in several states.
Only 57% of employees always check their payslips
cipHR
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Polling over 1,000 people, HR and payroll software provider CIPHR found that nearly a quarter (22%) don’t regularly check their payslips, despite their importance for keeping track of their pay. Only 57% of British employees always check their payslips, new research shows.
How to set up a payroll process: 10 steps
Insperity
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Not only do you have to figure out the proper way to pay your people, you have to withhold the appropriate taxes, deposit them and report them to the government. Depending on their job duties, pay type and pay frequency, employees can be classified as: Exempt Non-exempt.
What is Payroll Tax?
Abel HR
DECEMBER 8, 2020
When business owners pay their employees’ wages, the law requires them to make tax payments on their behalf. This comes mostly from the employee’s salary through payroll deduction, while the employer pays some directly to the IRS. Who Pays Payroll Tax?
AbelHR: What is Payroll Tax?
Abel HR
DECEMBER 8, 2020
When business owners pay their employees’ wages, the law requires them to make tax payments on their behalf. This comes mostly from the employee’s salary through payroll deduction, while the employer pays some directly to the IRS. Who Pays Payroll Tax?
How much will I get while on workers’ compensation?
Workers' Compensation Perspectives
DECEMBER 27, 2019
Gross Average Earnings In North America, jurisdictions using the Gross basis vary from a rate of 60% to 75% of average earnings to calculating workers’ compensation. The most common compensation rate in the US is “two -thirds” (66.67%) of gross earnings.
Are low wage earners adequately covered by workers’ compensation?
Workers' Compensation Perspectives
NOVEMBER 22, 2019
The following chart represents Aidy’s case and her workers’ compensation payable in each state using a weekly pay calculation as of Dec 1, 2018. Most states have the same compensation rate: two-thirds of Gross but a few use a percentage of spendable or net average earnings.
Pay Up! 10 Steps to Establishing a Payroll Process (Part 2)
Insperity
JULY 29, 2012
Pick a pay period and decide how to pay employees. After the pay period is determined, you will need to consider how to handle things like paid time off (for holidays, vacations, sick days and personal days) and overtime, how you will track employee hours and decide if you will offer direct deposit. Make all that hard work pay off – literally.
Are wages or salary fully covered by workers’ compensation insurance?
Workers' Compensation Perspectives
OCTOBER 29, 2019
It is hard work with long hours some weeks but with the straight-time pay rate at about $50.00 There is no universal standard for the percentage of gross or net (often referred to as “spendable” earnings). Severance pay; 12.
Comp Time Vs. Overtime: Which Should You Offer Employees?
Insperity
MAY 15, 2013
House approved a bill that would allow private-sector employees to take compensatory or comp time instead of overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours a week. Though the bill is said to have little chance of passing in the Senate, it has raised questions about the legalities and merits of offering comp, or compensatory time, in lieu of overtime pay. Rules for overtime pay depend on whether employees are federally classified as exempt or non-exempt employees.
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