Quick books and workmans comp class codes

I do use QB and do all the WC setups and audits for multiple companies. In every payroll estimate and audit (multiple insurers over 11 years with over 8 companies), each employee is only assigned 1 WC code overall and that is the one with the highest risk rating. There is no way on the WC side to split payroll out by person by job type. For example, we have an employee who is our IT person but is also a Real Estate Broker. His REB WC code has a much higher rating than is IT (admin) code, but because he goes out and shows lease spaces to potential tenants, we must put ALL his income into the REB WC code.

So the question you might need to be asking is to your WC carrier to make sure you are getting correct coverage.

We have QB Enterprise Solutions (one of the highest levels) and the only place to put the WC code is on the employee record and there is only one spot to put one code.

But we don't do the autobill with our WC carrier...instead we do an estimated payroll at the beginning of the covered year and then do a trueup/audit at the end of the covered year. We don't like giving them access to our bank account every payroll period.

eta: I am not in your state and do know that WC laws can vary by state, so yours might allow what you are trying to do. That said, I don't think QB can handle what you are trying to do. I think you would have to setup different paycodes/types such that your payroll reports split out the income by type and then match that back to the WC code for each paycode/type.  You could probably run an EE Earnings Summary or Payroll summary to get the totals or by employee and paycode/types and then total by those.  

Your state requires an employee contribution to WC premiums? Wow! I must say I have never heard that before so can't help there. Our employees would scream! I guess I should count my blessings that ours is 100% paid for by the employer based on employee wages.

So you would have to set up an hourly wage rate with a matching deduction % for each wage? Ouch....I can see where that would get overwhelming! And the paystub would be a nightmare! You'd have to have a chart for each hourly wage rate and what WC code it matched back to....(and yes, in the end I think it gets back to one WC code per employee since it is on the employee main record.... my work around would get complicated if you had too many different WC codes at your company too)

We use the desktop version Enterprise with Payroll, but I just pull QB reports to get the #s I need for our carrier to calculate our premium annually and then the audit annually.

eta: you might ask this question out at payrolltalk.com. I am not sure how many QB users there are though!