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Your gross pay is what you earned. Your net pay is what hits your bank. The difference — taxes, benefits, retirement — can be 25-40% of your paycheck. Here's the breakdown.
Payroll errors are more common than most employees realize — wrong hours, missing overtime, incorrect deductions. Here's exactly how to spot them and what to do to get them fixed.
YTD stands for Year-to-Date — the running total of all earnings, taxes, and deductions from January 1 through your current pay period. Here is why it matters.
FICA stands for Federal Insurance Contributions Act — it's the Social Security and Medicare taxes taken from every paycheck. Here's exactly how they're calculated.
Landlords: how to verify tenant income using pay stubs, what to check, red flags to watch for, and how automation speeds up tenant screening.
Your pay stub contains a lot of numbers. Here is exactly what each one means — from gross wages to net pay to every deduction in between.
The YTD column on your pay stub tracks cumulative totals from January 1. It is one of the most useful columns — here is how to read it and what to verify.
Every line between your gross pay and net pay is money going somewhere. Here is exactly where each deduction goes and why.
Gross pay is what you earn. Net pay is what you keep. The gap between them — taxes, insurance, retirement — is the story of every pay stub.