You enter your employee’s personal and contact details, as well as their pay details, on the Employee details tab (Payroll > Employees > click an employee). Enter the hourly rate or annual salary based on what the employee is paid, and the typical hours per week they will work. This caters for fulltime, parttime and casual employees. If needed, when you do a pay run you can change the number of hours an employee has worked.

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 payslips 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 a bank file to pay your employees electronically. For more information, see Paying employees electronically.