Add salaries with employer overhead

Salaries let you add each employee's monthly pay, with an employer cost factor on top for payroll tax and benefits. They have their own page because pay is sensitive, and by default they come out of your overall monthly profit. Salaries are available on the Business plan.

Steps

1. Open Cost rules, then Salaries (/app/costs/salaries).
2. Click Add salary.
3. Enter the employee name or role.
4. Enter the gross monthly salary.
5. Set the employer cost multiplier. This adds on-costs on top of gross pay. For example, 1.25 means 25% extra for payroll tax and benefits, so a 4,000 salary is counted as 5,000. Leave it at 1.0 for no extra.
6. Choose an Allocation. "Business-level only" keeps salary out of per-order profit; "Even across all orders", "Weighted by revenue", or "Specific location only" spread it across orders.
7. Under "Applies to", choose Online Store only, POS only, or Shared across channels if the role belongs to one channel.
8. Click Add salary. Open a salary later to set a start or end date, add notes, or switch it off.

What you should see

The employee appears in the list with the effective monthly cost (gross pay times the multiplier) and the allocation. Your net profit on the dashboard drops by that monthly amount.

Tip

Salary is always treated as a monthly cost. To stop counting a salary without deleting its record, open it and set the status to Inactive.