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Net paycheck in budget

Is there a way to only budget your net paycheck for the income portion of a budget in QM? QW had a "Paycheck" function that allowed you to do this.
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To better answer your question, do you have the paycheck set up with the gross amount and then split off different amounts?
There isn't a specific button that does this, but if you have the amount of the paycheck entered into Quicken and have the category for the paycheck in the budget only that amount of income will show in the budget.
-Quicken Tyka
Thank you for answering that.
I will be changing the post to an Idea as there currently isn't an option to do this in the Mac version at this time.
Thank you for taking the time to come to the Community to make this contribution!
-Quicken Tyka
I use paycheck wizard too. Looking at the categories, Salary is gross - there is no net salary (after all additions/deductions). A ‘shadow’ net salary would be very helpful for usage in the Budget tool. Otherwise, it requires budgeting out all the individual extra ideas that paycheck wizard tracks. Duplication of work.
Help to see this in the future.
I tried this another way, which ultimate doesn't work either - I created an account for my employer and entered a paycheck as a split. The last split is categorized "Paycheck : Net Pay" and is a transfer to my checking account. Sadly, we cannot budget transfers.
I'd actually prefer this approach because I routinely have some $0 pay stubs for things like RSU releases. I need to put those transactions somewhere so I can do the appropriate splits for taxes and to transfer into the brokerage account.
I'd rather these entries not be in the checking account because they do not appear on the account statement to reconcile.
One alternative would be a mechanism to apply a category to the split remainder.