Adding employees

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Before you can pay your employees, you need to set them up in your MYOB Essentials business and enter some basic details.

Before you start

There's a couple of things you'll need to do before adding an employee into MYOB Essentials.

If you are

Do this first

an Australia business

Give the employee a Tax file number declaration form to fill in and return to you (see a sample – PDF viewer required). You’ll need it in front of you when you’re entering their details. You can order this form from the ATO website.

Your employee will also need to give you the relevant forms for any variations or exemptions they’re claiming (for example, Flood levy exemption declaration).

a New Zealand business

Ask the employee to complete and give you a Tax code declaration (IR330) form, containing their tax information. You’ll need this form in front of you when you’re entering their details. They can download this form from the IRD website (PDF viewer required).

Your employee might also give you a special tax code or student loan repayment certificate (IR23), which authorises you to change the rate at which they pay tax or student loan repayments.

To add an employee

Go to the Payroll menu and choose Employees.
Click Add Employee. The New Employee page appears. Each tab on this page stores different information for the employee.

Enter the employee's details on each tab:

For this tab...	See this topic...
Employee details	Enter an employee's pay details
Tax	Enter tax details
Superannuation (Australia only)	Set up Pay superannuation
Pay items - earnings & deductions	Assigning pay items to employees
Leave	Set up leave
KiwiSaver (New Zealand only)	Set up KiwiSaver
Pay history	Pay history
Notes	Enter notes about the employee

When you're done, click Save.

Can't enter or save employee details?

If there's no fields or buttons available to enter employee details, you're probably using Microsoft Edge, the web browser in Windows 10. You'll need to enter employee details using a different web browser, like Chrome or Firefox. (What browser am I using?)

To remove an employee

You can't delete an employee, but you can mark them as Inactive. Simply deselect the Active employee option on the Employee details tab of the employee record.

Employee record with active employee option deselected