How to Process Final Pay in Sprout Payroll?

In this article, we will discuss the step-by-step approach in processing the Final Pay in Sprout Payroll.

Follow the instructions below: 

1. Create a new Payroll Run and the payroll run type should be “Final Pay” for monthly/semi-monthly paid employees; “Final Pay-Part Time” for daily paid employees:
   
2. The Date Coverage should be the unpaid period or the hold payroll cut-off of the employee. Please take note that the employee reflected under the Final Pay run are those who resigned within the period. In this sample, the period covered is from January 16 to 31, therefore, the employee who will be included in this final pay run are those who resigned between January 16-31.

 

3. You also have an option to deduct the Government contribution and in the final pay run. Just tick the radio buttons under Payroll Options based on your company policy.
 

4. For the earnings computation we have the following option

Prorated - earnings will be computed based on the number of days within the period up until the employee's last day. For example, if the employee's Resignation Date is on January 25 then the counting of working days will be from January 16 to 25 and it will be multiplied by the employee's daily rate.
Not Prorated - Regardless of the selected period, the employee's basic pay or other types of income will be based on the employee's semi-monthly rate if the pay frequency is Semi-Monthly. Then, the Monthly rate if the pay frequency is Monthly.
Do not include - No earnings will be generated if you choose to not include them.

 5. After setting up the Final Pay run, you may upload the adjustments or other types of      earnings/deductions that need to be deducted to the employee in the final pay run: How to Set Up a One-Time Adjustment for a Specific Employee
 

6. Proceed on importing attendance and processing the final pay run.

That's it! You may check out the related articles here to explore more on the Final Pay run in Sprout Payroll.

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