Create Company Specific Custom Earnings

In addition to the standard earning types — like Bonus, Tips, and Commission — you can create a custom earning type and name it whatever you like. Let's say an employer is a salon and they track sales of hair products in addition to hourly wages and tips. You can create the custom earning, "Sales", and update this earning type so that it appears as a line item on their employee's paystub.

You can create a custom earning type using the POST companies/{company_uuid}/earning_typesendpoint. The new earning will now be available under the fixed_compensation array for every employee.

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Unique Earning Names
If an inactive earning type exists with the same name, this will reactivate it instead of creating a new one.

curl --request POST \
     --url https://api.gusto-demo.com/v1/companies/{company_uuid}/earning_types \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'authorization: Bearer <<COMPANY_API_TOKEN>>' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '{"name":"Sales"}'

const fetch = require('node-fetch');

const url = 'https://api.gusto-demo.com/v1/companies/{company_uuid}/earning_types';
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    accept: 'application/json',
    'content-type': 'application/json',
    authorization: 'Bearer <<COMPANY_API_TOKEN>>'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({name: 'Sales'})
};

fetch(url, options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(json => console.log(json))
  .catch(err => console.error('error:' + err));

📘Unique Earning Names

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Unique Earning Names