Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mike Kappel is the Founder of Patriot Software, LLC. If your business is anything like mine, year-end is your busiest time of the ...

In a recent blog post, Wage and Hour Administrator David Weil tries to underplay employer concerns about the new overtime exemption rules, including worries about the difficulty of tracking time for ...

Setting up your payroll spreadsheet Start with a payroll calculator template or a blank Excel sheet, adding tabs for employee details, hours worked, pay rates, deductions, and taxes. Keep a separate ...

Before the introduction of payroll software, calculating employees’ wages and tax withholdings was tedious. It meant making painstaking manual calculations for every employee, and those calculations ...