How do I enter backpay in MYOB Payroll?

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March 22nd, 2009 by Miriam

Determine the employees current rate of pay
Take their new rate and manually calculate the difference between the new rate and their old rate
Using the difference between the rates, multiply this for the number of hours/days owing to the employee
Once you have determined the Gross difference to be paid to the employee, check to see if you have a Pay Code called backpay set up in your Payroll. If not, go to Maintain Pay Codes and using the F4 key, create a Gross Earnings Pay Code. You will need to put a tick in the checkbox “Allow rate to be modified”, so you can enter the amount of the backpay.
Go to Prepare Pays/Enter Pays for the relevant employees
Select the backpay pay code and enter a 1 in the Quantity column and put the total gross backpay into the rate column.
Click the tax override button, enter the backpay amount and select the appropriate tax code for it – note that the tax code you select is based on the employees annualized income – see the IRD’s website if you are unsure which code to use. Eg: