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Adding Future Pay Packets

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Adding Future Pay Packets

A future pay packet is used when you are wanting to pay an employee in advance, e.g., pay the next 3 pay periods in a single pay run and have the tax calculate as it normally would for each pay period.

Tax calculations in each pay period are independent of each other except where appropriate, e.g., additional tax

Steps on how to open a pay run can be found in the Open a Pay Run article.

  1. Find the employee.

  2. Right click the line.

  3. Select Add Future Pay Packets.

Pay Packet Type

More information on types of pay packets can be found in the Types of Pay Packets article.

  • Use Manual Pay Component Assignments Only - Manual.

  • Use Standard Component Assignments - Manual(Std)

  • Main Pay Packet - Main.

For Time Worked in

When tax is calculated, earnings from all pay packets assigned to the same pay period are included. Tax is recalculated considering all the earnings with the amount not yet withheld processed in the new pay packet.

Determines which pay period earnings, hours, or other pay component values are grouped in.

SHIFT and CTRL can be used to select multiple pay periods. Multiple pay packets will be created if more than one pay period is selected.

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