New York State Workmans' Compensation

Hello,

I am looking for information on how some of the New York State customers deal with the Construction Employment Payroll Limitation.

What is happening is that I have employees who work on prevailing wage jobs that push their wage rate well over the cap of $23.24/hour and I cannot for the life of me find a way to limit the payroll calculation to dollars/hour.  

This is quite important for us to see real burden.  So if anyone has gone through this and came up with a successful way to limit their payrolls I'd be more that ears.

Thanks

-Josh

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    New York Workers' Compensation

    New York calculates workers’ compensation differently from most states. See New York workers’ compensation section below.

    Payroll Calculation

    1 In the 5-3-1 Payroll Calculations window, the payroll calculation for New York Workers’ Compensation must include the following for it to function correctly:

    a In the Tax Type box, select 11-Workers’ Compensation.

    b In the Calc Method list, select 17-Tables.

    c In the Max Type box, select 1-Wages/Check.

    d In the Tax State box, select NY.

    New York workers' compensation

    Sage 100 Contractor looks first to the settings in 5-2-1 Employees. If a maximum is set on the New York W/C calculation on the Calculations tab, it uses that maximum during the compute. Otherwise, it uses the maximum setting in 5-3-2 Workers’ Compensation.

    Set up the rate and max (if any) in the workers’ compensation table for each classification. Corporate officers (or others to whom a different wage limit for that classification applies) should have the wage limit entered in 5-2-1 Employees on the Calculations tab in the NY Workers Comp Insurance row.

    The employees must be paid weekly for the subject wage maximums to work correctly. In 5-2-1 Employees, on the Compensation tab, set the pay period to 1-Weekly.

    Salary only employees’ payroll records need to have a timecard line with at least these three entries: Pay Type, Hours, and Comp Code.

    For the Workers’ Compensation to calculate correctly, employees cannot jump between comp codes during a given week.

    Comp codes that have a Maximum must be listed prior to comp codes that do not have a Maximum for Sage 100 Contractor to compute and report the workers’ compensation correctly.

    To ensure accuracy, only one comp code with a Maximum can be used per check unless the other comp codes have an exact matching Maximum.

  • 0 in reply to Char DeLange

    Unfortunately the wage limit I'm referring to is a construction cap not based upon weekly earning but rather the cap is set up by the state at $23.24/hr.  I have employees that will on a given day start work at a non-prevailing wage job earning say $20/hr, comp limitation does not apply, everything flows smoothly.  If that same employee goes to a prevailing wage job on the same day earning say 43/hr the calculation is thrown off because we are only responsible for up to $23.24.  

    The default max types negate the process of dollars/hour.

  • 0 in reply to JoshH

    I knew this was a bugger.

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    Josh, this is late, but when you enter the rates on the 5-3-1 Workers Comp table, you can enter a maximum wage so that it only works on that amount.  There are only two states that work that way in our table, and NY is one of them.

  • 0 in reply to CatherineSchmitt

    Catherine,

    That does not work either.  I entered a value of $23.24 in that column and saved the W/C setup, double checked.  Calculated one payroll record with 1 hour at $43.22.  W/C calculation ignored the maximum and calculated the rate based on a gross payroll of $43.22 not $23.24 as it should have.  :-((