Hi GE88,
If you have staff who are paid via PAYE, please record their salary as a withdrawal. These payments wouldn’t be recorded as an expense as you should have all the details of the payroll filing held in whichever payroll software you’re currently using.
If you are using Sub-contractors to complete a job, you can create an expense for their payment under the expense category “Employee costs > Sub-contractor costs”.
All the best,
Katie