{"id":1396,"date":"2024-11-09T20:45:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T00:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2024-11-11T08:49:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T12:49:03","slug":"alabama-overtime-pay-exemption-form-w-2-reporting-in-box-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/payroll\/alabama-overtime-pay-exemption-form-w-2-reporting-in-box-14\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Report Alabama&#8217;s Overtime Pay Exemption on W2 Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This post is dedicated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/payrollsoftware\/payroll_software.html\">Payroll Mate<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/W2-Mate.html\">W2 Mate<\/a> Alabama users who are required to report exempt overtime wages on form W-2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Alabama Department of Revenue proposes that exempt overtime\nwages be reported in Box 14 of employees Form W-2 using \u201cEX OT WAGES\u201d as the\nindicator: for example, EX OT WAGES- $15,250. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If space becomes an issue in Box 14, this may be abbreviated (e.g., EX OT $15,250), or the text may be wrapped.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please not that W-2Box 14 reporting of Alabama exempt overtime\nbegins with the 2024 tax year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To enter the Alabama exempt overtime wages on form W-2 using W2\nMate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Open W2 Mate software.<\/li><li>Click on the \u201cW2 Forms\u201d screen from the left toolbar.<\/li><li>Click &#8220;Select&#8221; and highlight the employee for whom you wish to update the W-2 form. <\/li><li>Click the OK button.<\/li><li>Highlight Box 14.<\/li><li>If you are reporting $5000.00 as exempt overtime wages for example, then enter \u201cEX OT $5,000\u201d.<\/li><li>Click the \u201cSave\u201d button.<\/li><li>Repeat the same steps for the rest of your employees.<\/li><li>Now click the \u201cPrint\u201d button and select the employees you want to print the W-2 form for, select the copy type and then click OK.W2 Mate will print the W2 forms with Alabama&#8217;s overtime pay exemption included in Box 14. <\/li><li>Review your W2 Forms and Hand out to your employees.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is dedicated to Payroll Mate and W2 Mate Alabama users who are required to report exempt overtime wages on form W-2. The Alabama Department of Revenue proposes that exempt overtime wages be reported in Box 14 of employees Form W-2 using \u201cEX OT WAGES\u201d as the indicator: for example, EX OT WAGES- $15,250. &#8230; <a title=\"How to Report Alabama&#8217;s Overtime Pay Exemption on W2 Forms\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/payroll\/alabama-overtime-pay-exemption-form-w-2-reporting-in-box-14\/\" aria-label=\"More on How to Report Alabama&#8217;s Overtime Pay Exemption on W2 Forms\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[224,226,225],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-payroll","category-w2-forms","tag-alabama-overtime-pay-exemption-form-w-2-reporting","tag-alabama-payroll-software","tag-alabama-w2-software"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtaxtools.com\/Payroll-1099\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}