Payroll/New Employee/Start Date/Effect on 1st Paycheck

[mikerogersx]

When you enter a new employee in Quickbooks (2006 Pro with State Payroll Service) one of the questions you are asked is employee start date. I had thought Quickbooks would not let you pay an employee before the employee start date. Two new employees started July 9. Payroll is semi monthly, 15th and last day of the month. Quickbooks calculated pay for the entire payperiod July 1 to July 15 even though the employee start date was July 9. I deleted the checks and redid payroll for these two new employees. It is not redoing the checks I am questioning, it is what purpose does employee start date serve other than a historical date kept in Quickbooks?

[Joe Williams]

The "employee start date" is just for you to see when they started. If they are Salary employees, Payroll uses the full month. On the first paycheck.edit the Rate amount dor the correct amount (the Rate/2). The rest will caculate the amount based on the payperiod OK.

[mikerogersx]

Thanks Joe.
Mike