Workaround: Autamatically Post Wage Costing on Salaried Employees

We pay all of our technicians a salary, for the sake of this example let's say we pay Bill $1,000 per week.

We do, however, require that they enter all of their time data on their time sheets for job costing purposes and we have selected the "Use Time Data" box on each technicians employee record.  Last week for example, we paid a tech, Bill, $800 via the "Earning:Wage" payroll item and $200 via the "Earning:Salary" payroll item.  In another week we may pay Bill $700 via the "Earning:Wage" payroll item and $300 via the "Earning:Salary" payroll item.

The problem is that I have to manually enter and adjust the "Earning:Salary: payroll item on his paycheck each pay period so that "Earning:Salary" = "$1,000" - "Earning:Wage"  With many techs, this is a tedious and time consuming process.