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Manually enter payroll hours

Use this if your team tracks hours outside Workstream and you’d rather type them in directly instead of uploading a file. You can also use this to add or adjust hours on top of what’s already in the payroll draft.

Updated over a month ago

Enter hours for hourly workers

  1. Add employee: Select + Add employee.

  2. New payroll item: Find and select the employee from the New payroll item list.

  3. Payment method: From the Payment Method menu, select Direct Deposit or Manual.

  4. New earning: Select + New earning to add their earning type and payment details.

  5. Select Save Draft if you need to come back later, or Preview payroll.

  6. Make sure everything is correct, then select Submit payroll.


Enter hours for salaried exempt full-time workers

If an employee, such as a manager, works at multiple locations (including locations under different EINs), their full annual salary must be entered at each job and location.

The system will calculate pay based on actual hours worked at each location.

  1. Important: For each job and location, make sure to specify the employee’s full annual salary as their earning rate. For example, if a manager earns $50,000 per year and oversees four locations, enter $50,000 as the earning rate at each job and location.

  2. Run payroll and enter hours worked: When processing payroll, enter only the hours worked at each location.

    • As a best practice, enter standard hours based on the pay frequency for salaried earnings:

      • Weekly: 40

      • Bi-weekly: 80

      • Semimonthly 86.67

      • Monthly 173.33

      • Quarterly: 520

      • Annually: 2080

    • You don’t need to enter PTO or sick leave hours in payroll because they’re already part of the standard hours


Enter hours for contractors

  1. Add contractor: Select + Add contractor.

  2. New contractor payment: Select the applicable contractor from the New contractor payment list.

  3. Payment method: From the Payment Method menu, select Direct Deposit or Manual.

  4. Workplace: Select the appropriate workplace for this contractor.

  5. Payment and Reimbursements: Enter the total payment amount or reimbursements. For contractors, this is the full amount they are owed—taxes are not deducted. No calculations should be made.

  6. Select Save Draft if you need to come back later, or Preview payroll.

  7. Make sure everything is correct, then select Submit payroll.

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