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Pay stub, in plain English.
Workzoom defines Pay stub as follows. A pay stub is the per-period statement showing gross wages, statutory deductions, employer contributions, and net pay. Most jurisdictions require an electronic or paper stub on...
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The short answer
A pay stub is the per-period statement showing gross wages, statutory deductions, employer contributions, and net pay. Most jurisdictions require an electronic or paper stub on every payday. Workzoom generates pay stubs automatically in the employee self-service portal, with year-to-date totals and downloadable PDFs.
How Pay stub works.
A pay stub is the statement showing gross pay, each deduction, and net pay for a period, together with the year-to-date position. Most jurisdictions prescribe what must appear on it and how long it must remain available, and some require employees be able to obtain it without asking. It is also the document employees use to prove income, so its accuracy gets tested outside the organization.
Where Pay stub goes wrong.
- Omitting a prescribed field, such as the hours behind an hourly rate or the accrued entitlement balance.
- Electronic-only delivery in a jurisdiction requiring a paper option, or without an accessible archive.
- Year-to-date figures that will not reconcile to the annual filing because a correction was posted outside payroll.
Where Pay stub sits between HR and payroll.
Pay stub does not stand alone. The concepts most often paired with it on a Payroll run are Payroll processing, Employee self-service. Each is defined elsewhere in this glossary so you can trace the full chain without leaving the site.
How Pay stub runs on Workzoom.
Pay stub 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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