Changing or deleting pay items used in employee pays

Key points

Pay items are the additional earnings and deductions in an employee's pay, on top of their normal salary or wages
You can't delete a pay item that's been used in a pay, or has history recorded in an employee's record (even if you make the employee inactive)
If a pay item has been used, there are some details you won't be able to change
To change which pay items are assigned to your employees, see Assigning pay items to employees

Here's how to change or delete a pay item.

Go to the Payroll menu and choose Pay items. The Pay items page appears.
Click the tab for the type of pay item you want to change.
Click to open the pay item.
Make your changes to the pay item. For details of the fields and options in a pay item, see Setting up pay items.
When you're done, click Save.

You can't delete a pay item that's been used in a pay, or has history recorded in an employee's record.

Go to the Payroll menu and choose Pay items. The Pay items page appears.
Click the tab for the type of pay item you want to delete.
Click to open the pay item.
Click Delete.
At the confirmation prompt, click Delete.