If you want to exclude certain miscellaneous income categories when calculating percentage deductions, enhancement PEM - Exclude Misc Income From Percentage Deductions can save you time!

For example, you may wish to exclude an expense reimbursement from the calculation of a pension plan deduction. Just put an asterisk (*) in the first character of the miscellaneous income name in your payroll options, and it will not be included when percentage deductions are calculated.

The following Check stub illustrates a pension plan deduction of 10% of gross pay:

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|BLAB12 Bill Blast            857-34-8172 12/25/89 12/31/89   1507   |
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|SALARY             461.54    24461.62  FICA          56.26   1933.68|
|OVERTIME 1           0.00        0.00  FEDERAL WH.   77.74   3147.33|
|OVERTIME 2           0.00        0.00  GEORGIA       26.91    936.91|
| *EXPENSE           56.75     1056.75  PENSION       56.15     56.15|
| BONUS             100.00      100.00                               |
|SICK HOURS           0.77       40.81                               |
|VACATION HOURS       1.54       81.62                               |
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| 24000.000   618.29   217.06   401.23   25618.37   6074.07  19544.30|
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Note: That the expense reimbursement is not included in the calculation of gross pay for purposes of determining the pension plan deduction. However, the bonus income is included, since the first character of that description is not an asterisk.