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Gross-to-Net, in plain English.
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Gross-to-net is the full payroll calculation that turns gross earnings into the amount an employee takes home, applying every statutory deduction, benefit contribution, garnishment, and employer-side cost in the correct order.
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Running gross-to-net means a system computes the whole sequence, not only a pay total. Workzoom runs full gross-to-net payroll in Canada, the United States, and the Bahamas.
How Gross-to-Net works.
Order matters more than arithmetic. Pre-tax deductions reduce taxable earnings before income tax is calculated, post-tax deductions come out after, and statutory contributions each have their own base and ceiling. Get the sequence wrong and every downstream number is wrong with it. A gross-to-net engine also has to distinguish employee-side deductions from employer-side costs, since only the former change net pay while both affect what the business spends. Systems that stop at gross calculation leave the rest to a separate tool or a spreadsheet.
Where Gross-to-Net goes wrong.
- The distinction worth insisting on with any vendor is gross-to-net versus zero-to-gross.
- A system that calculates earnings and hands off the statutory maths is doing the easier half.
- The second trap is assuming a country is supported because the system stores its currency.
- Currency is formatting; statutory calculation is the actual work.
- 2000 Running payroll since Workzoom has run Canadian payroll for 25+ years.
- Canadian data residency AWS Canada (ca-central-1). Canadian customer data stays in Canada.
- SOC 2-aligned controls Encrypted at rest, role-based access, immutable audit logs.
- Trusted in production County of Renfrew, Silvera for Seniors, and Cable Bahamas. Built for 50 to 5,000 employees.
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How Gross-to-Net runs on Workzoom.
Gross-to-Net is part of the Workzoom Payroll Suite. Workzoom runs HR, workforce, and talent on a single employee record across ten countries: Canada, the United States, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, and the United Kingdom. Full gross-to-net payroll runs live in Canada, the United States, and the Bahamas. Pricing starts at $4 per employee per suite per month.
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