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Sometimes employers may wish to pay an employee for a portion of a month, for example if an employee starts mid-month and it was agreed that only half the month would be paid in the first month's wages.

If you only wish to pay your employee for 15 days in March at €100/day:

- Click on the Employee icon to display the Employee screen.
- Select the employee from the list and click on the 'Pay Details' tab
- Set the Salary to €0 (You can change this back afterwards)
- Click the 'Update' button at the top of the screen
- Click the 'Payroll' icon to go into the payroll screen
- In the elements grid, is should say 'Salary 0'
- Click the blank row under 'salary', and type '15 Days'
- Type 1500 under the amount column and click 'Pay' to process the March pay.
- Change the salary back to the full amount in the employee screen, for subsequent months.

Note that Payback is pretty flexible, and there sometimes is more than one way to do things. An alternative method would be to change the salary to €18000 (1500*12) for March, or to set the employee up as 'Flat rate' for March.

This will allocate a full month's tax credits and standard rate cut off point.