Payroll Mode Codes Table

Fields on the Payroll Mode Codes Table

Pay Frequency. Use the field for Pay Frequency to indicate how often paychecks are processed.
Annual Payrolls (not editable). The number of Annual Payrolls is the number of scheduled pay periods in one year for payroll tax purposes. This should correspond to the Pay Frequency selected.

When a new Payroll Mode Code is added, and a Pay Frequency is selected, the number of Annual Payrolls is populated based on the Pay Frequency selected.

Pay Amount Mode. Use the Pay Amount Mode drop down list box to select how the pay amounts will show. Enter the Pay Period Hours according to the quantity of hours per pay period according to the Pay Amount Mode selection.
Payroll Mode Hours. Enter the Payroll Mode Hours to define the number of hours per pay amount that shows according to the selection in the Pay Amount Mode field.

Pay Period Hours. The Pay Period Hours represent the normal number of hours worked in that pay period for full-time work.
Pay Mode Period Hours. In contrast, the Pay Mode Period Hours are the number of hours paid by the Pay Amount Mode.

Examples

The Payroll Mode Code can be dissected into two parts, pay frequency and pay amount mode.

BIWEEKHOUR is for a bi-weekly pay frequency and an employee with an hourly pay amount, such as $10. BIWEEKHOUR normally has the following:

Annual payrolls is typically defined to tax on 26 pay periods, since 52/2 = 26 pay periods. A Payroll Service Representative can adjust this based on where the check dates fall within the year.
Pay frequency is biweekly, so the Pay Period Hours should have 80.00 entered.
Pay amount mode is Hourly, so Pay Mode Period Hours field should have 1.00 entered.

BIWEEKLY is for a bi-weekly pay frequency and an employee with a bi-weekly pay amount such as $1,000. BIWEEKLY normally has the following:

Annual payrolls is typically defined to tax on 26 pay periods, since 52/2 = 26 pay periods.
The pay amount mode is biweekly. Since bi-weekly pay amounts are for two weeks of pay and a full-time week is 40 hours, the "pay mode period hours" for biweekly equals 80 hours. The Pay Mode Period Hours field has 80.00 entered.
Pay frequency is biweekly, so the Pay Period Hours has 80.00 entered.

WEEKHOUR is for a weekly pay frequency and an employee with an hourly pay amount. WEEKLY normally has the following:

The number of Annual Payrolls is defined as 52 because there are 52 weeks are in a year.
Pay amount mode is hourly, so the Pay Mode Period Hours field has 1.00 entered.
Pay frequency is weekly, so the Pay Period Hours field has 40.00 entered.