Skip to Main Content
AgExpert Accounting Ideas
Categories Payroll
Created by Guest
Created on May 12, 2025

calculate additional deduction as % of gross

When doing SAWP payroll I have to deduct a percentage of the gross payroll. I have to go to employee set up each week and change the deduction amount (which I calculate in an excel spreadsheet) based on their actual pay that week - can you put an option to deduct the same percentage each week to avoid this extra step?

  • Attach files
  • Guest
    May 21, 2025

    It is quite necessary, as calculating the percentages manually for each entry is time consuming. Having an option to select a percentage directly in the deduction field would save a lot of time. I am surprised this feature hasnt been added, even after a year and I can see many people asked for it.

5 MERGED

Payroll - allow a deduction based on a % of the gross pay

Merged
"One suggestion I have is to allow a deduction based on a % of the gross pay. For SAWP workers the transportation deduction is set at 10% of their gross pay to a specific amount. Currently I manually calculate it. Quick Books has this feature, so ...
12 months ago in Payroll 1