QuickBooks Sick Pay Set UP – Enter/Record Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)

How To Set Up Sick Pay In QuickBooks?

Sick pay leaves are the benefits to the employees by the employer. The leave is allowed employees to stay home because of health concerns from which some are with or without pay. Now the employer can restrict the maximum leaves taken at a time so that the sick pay can be carried over. The set-up sick pay in QuickBooks feature comes in the update of QuickBooks Desktop 2019 R3. The leaves are also shown in the employee’s pay stub for easily visible to you. The rules of sick pay are different in all organizations. You can reach anytime AccountsPro team on QuickBooks Support Phone Number if you are using Non-Profit, Contractor, or Wholesale QB and are unable to find the standard option for Sick Pay.

There are Paid and Unpaid sick leaves that depend on the employers. Some employers don’t like to pay in sick leave as you are on the day off and have no office work. They provide less number of leaves per year than paid leave. These things are in the collective agreements or workplace.

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Setting UP Sick Pay QuickBooks Payroll Step By Step

The method to set up the sick pay in QuickBooks desktop

1. Open the QuickBooks desktop software in your system
2. Now click on the Menu option Employees
3. From further options, click on the Employee Center
4. Here, you can see the employee’s name, double-click on it for editing their information
5. Then click on the Payroll-info tab
6. In this tab, click on the tab named Sick/Vacation…
7. There is an Accrual period in which you have to select the option Every hour on paycheck
8. You have to enter the maximum number of hours
9. Now enter the date when the Sick leave time is started
10. Also, fill in the information that is required
11. In the end, save the changes by clicking on the OK button.

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Running QB Payroll with Sick Pay Leave

For running payroll, you have to set the policies for the sick leave

It is done for those sick leaves that are paid so that no problem occurs while or after running payroll. The steps are as follows:-

1. Go to the Gear-like icon and then click on the option Payroll Settings
2. Now select the Pay Schedules option
3. In the section of Vacation and Sick Leave Policies, you have to click on the Create option
4. In the leave Category field, choose the Sick option
5. Write the Description so that you can select the correct policy while setting up employees
   1. Now enter the Frequency that shows how many hours of Sick Leave an employee can save. It includes the fields like Hours earned per year, Accrual Frequency, and Maximum Available.
   2. For setting the Accrual limit, you have to select one of the following things:-
      1. Maximum hours for the year- The total number of hours an employee can save in a year.
      2. Maximum hours at a time- The hours saved by your employees at once. It can be saved more than the max if the employee can use some of it. These hours can be accrued until the balance of hours is lower than the max limit.
      3. Maximum hours to carry over- In this, provide the number of hours one can carry at its highest. These are counted as their leave balance or you can say unused sick hours that are carried forward to the next year.

6. In the end, click on the OK button to save all these details.

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Frequently Asked Questions (faqs)

How to set up sick pay in QuickBooks Desktop?

Setting up sick pay in QuickBooks Desktop is a straightforward process. The first step is to create a new “Sick Pay” account in the Chart of Accounts. This is usually done under “Expense” and marked as “Sick Pay”. Once the account is set up, the next step is to create a new payroll item in QuickBooks Desktop. This can be done by going to Employees > Payroll Item List, and selecting “New”. This will bring up a menu to create the new payroll item. Make sure to select the “Sick Pay” account you created in the Chart of Accounts. The final step is to link the payroll item to your employee’s paychecks. This can be done by going to Employees > Employees and selecting the employee’s pay stub. On the pay stub, select the “Sick Pay” payroll item and enter the amount that should be deducted from the employee’s gross pay. Once this is done, the employee’s paychecks will be adjusted accordingly.