Use a vlookup. If the employee names are in A1:A100 and pay rate in D1:D100
and the employee name you're looking up is in E1 then
=VLOOKUP(E1,A1:D100,4,FALSE)
The employee name in E1 has to exactly match the name in A1:A100. The names
do not have to be in sequence.

Tyro

"Meadowlark" wrote in message
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I am tired of looking up and typing in each employees pay scale. Their
names
are always in A and rate of pay in D. How can I solve this.
Thank you