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Agricultural overtime, bonuses, and extra earnings

Farm payroll software that gets agricultural overtime right: overtime pays 1.5× automatically, with a checkbox for the FLSA §13(b)(12) agricultural exemption. Commission on billable hours and bonuses are the built-in extra earnings.

1. Overtime lives in the hours gridIn Run Payroll, each hourly employee has Regular, OT, Holiday, and Vacation columns. Overtime hours pay at 1.5× the regular rate automatically.
2. You split the hoursType the hours over 40 in a workweek in the OT column yourself; the grid does not move them for you. Federal overtime is figured per workweek, not per pay period, so on a two-week or monthly run add up each week's overtime.
3. The agricultural exemptionOn a farm, the employee's form has an "Agricultural OT exemption" box (FLSA §13(b)(12)) for farm workers who are legally exempt: their hours over 40 stay at straight time.
4. Holiday and vacation payBoth columns pay at the regular rate but appear as their own lines on the paystub, separate from Regular pay. They don't count toward the 40-hour overtime threshold.
5. CommissionGive an employee a "Commission rate ($)" on their form and a Billable column appears for them in the hours grid — billable hours × rate adds a Commission line to gross pay.
6. BonusesType a bonus in the Bonus ($) column to pay it with the regular wages, withheld on the total. For a bonus-only check at the flat rate, pick "Bonus run" under Run type instead.
7. See the breakdown before committingThe preview lists each employee's hours by kind, then gross, taxes withheld, and net pay, before anything is saved.
8. The OBBBA overtime boxWhen a check includes overtime, an 'OBBBA "no tax on overtime" tracking' box shows the half-time premium for the check and year-to-date. It doesn't change withholding — it's the amount the employee can claim as a federal deduction on their own 1040 (tax years 2025–2028).