# Creating a company payroll using IceHrm

> We added information for calculating payroll for Sri Lanka and Ghana. You can delete all these before starting to work on your payroll. But sometimes these...

- URL: https://icehrm.com/blog/creating-a-company-payroll-using-icehrm
- Published: 2020-01-31
- Updated: 2024-03-04
- Author: IceHrm
- Topics: IceHrm Tutorials
- Publisher: IceHrm (https://icehrm.com), HR management software

We have already added information for calculating payroll for Sri Lanka and Ghana. You can delete all these before starting to work on your payroll. But sometimes these data can come handy as an example for building your payroll.

> To create a payroll system in IceHrm first, we should start with adding a **Calculation Group.**

To do this;

1.  Log in to the **Admin** account
2.  Go to the **Payroll module** and click on the **Payroll Reports** option
3.  Click on the **Saved Calculations** tab

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4\. Click on the **Add New** option to go-ahead

5\. Give a meaning full **name** to your calculation group, also you can add a description of the calculation group here

6\. Then click on **Save**

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#### How to delete an existing calculation group from the system?

1.  Under the calculation group tab, go to the specific calculation group you would like to delete
2.  Click on the Delete icon on the right side

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3\. Click on the delete button for the confirmation dial box pop up

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#### How to add a payroll column?

Before adding payroll columns, you need to understand the importance of adding payroll columns. Using payroll columns we define which columns you need to have in your payroll report when generating payslips of your employees. Payroll columns define the payroll report as a table which holds all your individual employee payslips in each row.

> You can create payroll columns based on your salary components. Below is a sample;

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To create a payroll column;

1.  Go to the **payroll module** under the **Admin account**
2.  Click on **Payroll Reports** session
3.  Go to the **Payroll Column** tab and then click on **Add New** to proceed
4.  Fill the necessary fields
5.  Ex 1:- Assume you are creating a payroll column for the Basic salary component

> Name the payroll column as Basic Salary

> Select the Calculation Group

> Select the Salary component as Basic Salary

> For this payroll column, you don’t need to add any calculations since this doesn’t depend on any

> Give a number as the Column Order (this is to specify the column order on the payroll report)

> Set Enabled option to Yes

> The default value will be zero

> Click on Save

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EX 2:- If you are creating a payroll column for a specific type of tax which needs to be calculated by the system, follow the below steps

> Give a name to the tax type

> Fill the fields up to the Calculation column as the above example

> In my example tax type, we are charging a 10% tax for the basic salary 20000 and above. So here we do a calculation.

> First, we need to add a variable using the **calculation column**

> According to the calculation, I define the Variable as B which indicates the basic salary

> Under the Functions field, I add the calculation as below

> (B — min(B, 20000)) \* 0.10

> Then you can the **Save** the changes

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Ex 3:- Assume that you need to do a complex calculation, you can follow the below steps

> Fill the necessary fields, as I explained in the above two examples

> Define variables according to your calculation

> In my example, I am going to calculate the Basic salary (B) into the Funny tax (F)

> So the calculation will be F\*B

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