This is one more QuickBooks 2019 feature that was delivered as a slip-stream feature contained within a release update early in the life-cycle of QuickBooks 2018. In fact, Insightful Accountant wrote about this back in December of 2017, that's how long this supposedly 'new' feature has been around.
The Employee Pay Adjustments History report tracks employee pay rate changes over a customizable date range. It highlights changes to earnings items recording when those changes went into effect. Tracked history includes hourly payroll item rate changes, annual salary item rate changes, commission payroll item rate changes, or changes to a bonus payroll item rate.
This report which is found within the Employees & Payroll reports provides information regarding the pay period, paycheck date, payroll earnings item, previous rate, current rate, % of change, and the exact amount of each payroll earning item paid in the paycheck.
Credit: Illustration adapted from Intuit source document.
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This report features changes to the rate of earnings items in the paycheck including Salary, Hourly, Bonus and Commission payroll items. If there's a change in one of these paycheck items, then all earnings items in that paycheck will be shown in the report so QuickBooks users don't think they have earnings items missing. Even though this the report does not track the overall sum paid to the employee but only the rate of earnings items changes, it does allow you to see all such changes in a single report for the time frame you determine.
While this is a good report, and one that was clearly needed by QuickBooks users who prepare payroll with an Enhanced Payroll Subscription, it is all too reminiscent of the payroll details we once had available from the Employee Organizer module if you were using QuickBooks Enterprise. Fortunately, all QuickBooks 2019 versions with an active Enhanced Payroll Subscription can make use of this report to help track Human Resource requirements related to earnings history.
As I said, this is a good report, but it's nothing to be thrilled about when it comes to something 'new' for the 2019 versions. As such, I'm afraid it's just another functionality I am 'neutral about.'
Notes & Disclosures:
Graphics or other illustrations used in this article have either been prepared using a pre-release version of QuickBooks 2019 software or were furnished and/or adapted from Intuit source content. Be aware that certain aspects of features described or illustrated herein may have changed between the pre-release software version we used, and the release of QuickBooks 2019 desktop products scheduled for September 4, 2018.
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