Pay Out Vacation Pay

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Calculate accrued vacation pay

Retain vacation pay

If you retain vacation pay, you must set up Sage 50 Accounting to retain vacation pay before you can pay out any retained vacation pay.

If required by your provincial employment standards, set up Sage 50 Accounting to automatically calculate vacation accrued on the amount of vacation paid.

There are two ways to pay out vacation pay:

You only need to set this up once when you pay an employee for the first time.

  1. Open the Income tab in the employee record.
    1. In the Home window, click Employees & Payroll on the navigation pane.
    2. In the Tasks pane, right-click the Employees icon and select Modify Employee from the menu.
    3. Select an employee from the list and click OK.
    4. Click the Income tab.
  2. Clear the Retain Vacation box.
  3. In the Vacation Rate box, enter the employee's vacation pay rate.
  4. Click Save and Close.

Note: Each paycheque for this employee will now automatically include vacation pay.

  1. Open the Paycheques window.
    1. In the Home window, click Employees & Payroll on the navigation pane.
    2. In the Tasks pane, right-click the Paycheques icon and select Create Paycheque from the menu.
  2. From the list in the Employee box, select an employee and press the Tab key.
  3. On the Vacation tab, type the number of vacation hours that you want to pay out in the Vacation Paid row and/or its corresponding amount.
    If you do not enter any hours, insurable hours will not be recorded for the vacation taken. The number of insurable hours are required to establish entitlement to Employment Insurance (EI) benefits. The employment must be insurable in order to earn insurable hours.
  4. Click Process.
  1. Open the Payroll Cheque Run window.
    1. In the Home window, click Employees & Payroll on the navigation pane.
    2. In the Tasks pane, click the Payroll Cheque Run icon.
  2. In the process column column, select the employees you want to include in this payroll run.
  3. Fill in the payroll information.
  4. For each employee you want to pay out:
    1. Click to highlight the employee's name in the list to see more details about their paycheque.
    2. In the Cheque Details section, on the Vacation tab, type the number of vacation hours that you want to pay out in the Vacation Paid row and/or its corresponding amount.
      If you do not enter any hours, insurable hours will not be recorded for the vacation taken. The number of insurable hours are required to establish entitlement to Employment Insurance (EI) benefits. The employment must be insurable in order to earn insurable hours.
  5. Click Process.