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PAYROLL ACCOUNTING

PAYROLL

• Represents compensation paid to employees and workers.


• Employees can be paid monthly or semi-monthly while workers are paid with wages based on a daily rate, hourly
rate or a piece rate.
• Payroll accounting involves not only the listing of the names of employees/workers with their corresponding pay
but it also involves the maintenance of records of the employees/workers as required by law because, firms acts as
collecting agents for the government agencies.
• As collecting agents, they file and pay taxes and also premium contributions for and in behalf of their
employees/workers.
• These government agencies are the Social Security system/ Government Service Insurance system, PAG-
IBIG(Home Development Mutual fund) and PHILHEALTH (Philippine Health Insurance Corporation).
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

1.) Social Security System (SSS)


- As SSS member, the member enjoys the benefits such as education loan, salary loan, disability loan, maternity benefit,
calamity loan, pension benefits and retirement pay.

2.) Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PHILHEALTH)


- As a Philhealth member, one enjoys sickness and hospitalization benefits.

3.) Pagtutulungan sa Kinabukasan: Ikaw, Bangko, Industriya at Gobyerno (PAG-IBIG / HDMF)


- As a PAG-IBIG member, members can apply for housing loans.
PAYROLL SHEET

• Is a tabular form prepared by the payroll/accounting department to determine how much salaries and wages to be
paid to employees and workers. It consists of five important columns:
1. Employee Name
2. Gross pay
3. Deductions
4. Net pay or take home pay
5. Employee signature signifying receipt of salary or wage

Employee Name Gross pay Deductions Net pay Signature


PARTS OF A PAYROLL SHEET

1. Gross pay
- Represents the total compensation earned by an employee or worker for a certain period of time.
- Example of compensation earned by the employee are basic salary, overtime pay and etc.

2. Deductions
- Amounts deducted to the gross pay of an employee or worker to arrive to its net pay or take home pay.
- Deductions may done as required by law or not. Deductions as required by law are:
a.) SSS ,PHILHEALTH and PAG-IBIG premium contributions by the employee
b.) Income taxes
c.) Union dues
- Advances may also be deducted from the gross pay of an employee, in cases when employees or workers are
allowed to draw a cash advance against their compensation.
3. Net Pay or take home pay
- The amount remaining after the deductions are deducted from the gross pay.
PAG- IBIG
CO N T R I BUT I O N
TA BLE

Note: The maximum


compensation considered in
computing a member’s monthly
PAG-IBIG contribution is
Php5,000, which equates to
Php100 contribution each for
the employee and the employer.
This means that even if the
monthly compensation of an
employee exceeds Php5,000, his
contribution will remain at
Php100.
PHILHEALTH CONTRIBUTION TABLE

Note: The monthly premium will continue to be shared equally between the employee and the employer.
INCOME TAX TABLE
ILLUSTRATIVE PROBLEM

Assume that the following are employees of ABC Company:

Employee Position Monthly Overtime Overtime


basic salary hours rate per hour
Employee A Clerk P 11,000 8 hours P 250
Employee B Supervisor P 30,000 6 hours P 275
Employee C Manager P 75,000 0 0

ABC Company pay their employees monthly.

REQUIRED: Compute for the take home pay of each employee.


EMPLOYEE A

Gross pay:
Basic Salary P 11,000
Overtime (8 hours x P 250) 2,000 P 13,000

Deductions:
SSS Premium contribution P 440
PAG-IBIG Premium contribution 100
PHILHEALTH premium contribution 220 (760)

Income subject to tax P 12,240


Income tax withheld 0
Net pay P 12,240
EMPLOYEE B

Gross pay:
Basic Salary P 30,000
Overtime (6 hours x P 275) 1,650 P 31,650

Deductions:
SSS Premium contribution P 800
PAG-IBIG Premium contribution 100
PHILHEALTH premium contribution 600 (1,500)
Income subject to tax P 30,150
Income tax withheld ( 1,863.40)
Net pay P 28,286.60
EMPLOYEE C

Gross pay:
Basic Salary P 75,000

Deductions:
SSS Premium contribution P 800
PAG-IBIG Premium contribution 100
PHILHEALTH premium contribution 1,500 (2,400)
Income subject to tax P 72,600
Income tax withheld ( 12,613.23)
Net pay P 59,986.77
PAYROLL SHEET

Employee Gross pay SSS PAG-IBIG PHILHEALT Withholding Total Net pay Signature
Name H tax Deductions

Employee A P 13,000 P 440 P 100 P 220 P0 P 760 P 12,240

Employee B 31,650 800 100 600 1,863.40 3,363.40 28,286.60

Employee 75,000 800 100 1,500 12,613.23 15,013.23 59,986.77


C
ENTRIES:

Salaries expense 119,650


SSS Premium payable 2,040
PAG-IBIG Premium payable 300
PHILHEALTH Premium payable 2,320
Withholding taxes payable 14,476.63
Cash 100,513.37
WHAT IF EMPLOYEE A HAD A C ASH ADVANCE
OF P 2,000 BEFORE THE END OF THE MONTH?

Gross pay:
Basic Salary P 11,000
Overtime (8 hours x P 250) 2,000 P 13,000

Deductions:
SSS Premium contribution P 440
PAG-IBIG Premium contribution 100
PHILHEALTH premium contribution 220 (760)

Income subject to tax P 12,240


Income tax withheld 0
Cash advance ( 2,000)_
Net pay P 10,240
ENTRIES:

At the time of cash advance:


Advances to Employees 2,000
Cash 2,000

At the time of payment of salaries:


Salaries expense 119,650
SSS Premium payable 2,040
PAG-IBIG Premium payable 300
PHILHEALTH Premium payable 1,320
Withholding taxes payable 14,476.63
Cash 98,513.37
Advances to employees 2,000
WHAT IF THE EMPLOYEES ARE PAID SEMI-MONTHTLY
AND ASSUMING OVERTIME HOURS ARE EARNED BY THE
EMPLOYEES FROM 1- 15 OF THE MONTH?
EMPLOYEE A
1 – 15 of the month
Gross pay:
Basic Salary P 5,500
Overtime (8 hours x P 250) 2,000 P 7,500

Deductions:
SSS Premium contribution P 220
PAG-IBIG Premium contribution 50
PHILHEALTH premium contribution 110 (380)

Income subject to tax P 7,120


Income tax withheld 0
Net pay P 7,120
EMPLOYEE B
1 – 15 of the month
Gross pay:
Basic Salary P 15,000
Overtime (6 hours x P 275) 1,650 P 16,650

Deductions:
SSS Premium contribution P 400
PAG-IBIG Premium contribution 50
PHILHEALTH premium contribution 300 (750)
Income subject to tax P 15,900
Income tax withheld (1,096.60)
Net pay P 14,803.40
EMPLOYEE C
1 – 15 of the month
Gross pay:
Basic Salary P 37,500

Deductions:
SSS Premium contribution P 400
PAG-IBIG Premium contribution 50
PHILHEALTH premium contribution 750 (1,200)
Income subject to tax P 36,300
Income tax withheld (6,306.77 )
Net pay P 29,993.23
PAYROLL SHEET

Employee Gross pay SSS PAG-IBIG PHILHEALT Withholding Total Net pay Signature
Name H tax Deductions

Employee A P 7,500 P 220 P 50 P 110 P0 P 380 P 7,120

Employee B 16,650 400 50 300 1,096.60 1,846.60 14,803.40

Employee 37,500 400 50 750 6,306.77 7,506.77 29,993.23


C
ENTRIES:

Salaries expense 61,650


SSS Premium payable 1,020
PAG-IBIG Premium payable 150
PHILHEALTH Premium payable 1,160
Withholding taxes payable 7,403.37
Cash 51,916.63
EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTION

- The law also requires the employer to make corresponding contributions for SSS, PAG-IBIG, PHILHEALTH and EC
premiums ( Employee compensation for work connected sickness or injury resulting to disability or death).
Based on the previous illustrative problem(monthly pay), the schedule of the total employer contribution would be as follows:

Employee Name SSS PAG-IBIG PHILHEALTH EC


Employee A P 880 P 100 P 220 10
Employee B 1,600 100 600 30
Employee C 1,600 100 1,500 30
Total P 4,080 P 300 P 2,320 P 70
ENTRIES:

SSS Premium Expense 4,080


PAG-IBIG Premium Expense 300
PHILHEALTH Premium Expense 2,320
EC Premium Expense 70
SSS Premium payable 4,080
PAG-IBIG Premium payable 300
PHILHEALTH Premium payable 2,320
EC premium payable 70
ENTRIES:

If all the contributions and income taxes withheld are remitted to the different government agencies:

SSS Premium payable 6,120


PAG-IBIG Premium payable 600
PHILHEALTH Premium payable 4,640
EC premium payable 70
Withholding taxes payable 14,476.63
Cash 25,906.63

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