On the Employee details tab, you enter your employee’s personal details, as well as their superannuation information (Australia) and information about their pay. You only need to fill in the shaded boxes, but entering some other details (like their address or phone number) will make it easier for you to keep in touch with them.

Note that if you want to email pay slips to this employee, you need to enter their email address on this tab.

Splitting pay between accounts

You can choose to split an employee’s pay between two different bank accounts. For example, an employee might request that 20% of their wages be diverted to their savings account. When you make these payments, both transactions will be matched to the MYOB Essentials wages transaction.

You can enter any text you want in the Account description fields (for example, the account number and BSB, or descriptive text such as “Home loan”). Note that even if you enter the employee’s bank details on this screen, you’ll still have to manually make the payments to their bank accounts.

Once you’ve finished entering details on this page, click Next to continue to the Tax tab where you’ll enter their tax details.

Paying employees electronically

If you're in Australia, or if you bank with ASB in New Zealand, you can create an ABA bank file to pay your employees electronically. For more information, see Paying employees electronically.