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Payroll Register, in plain English.

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A payroll register is the detailed record of a single pay run, listing every employee with their gross earnings, each deduction, employer-side costs, and net pay. It is the document payroll is approved against before money moves and the record auditors ask for afterwards. Workzoom produces the register from the same run that generates the payments, so the approval copy and the paid result are the same data.

How Payroll Register works.

The register is the control point in the pay cycle. Reviewing it before release is what catches a duplicated employee, a rate entered in the wrong field, or a deduction that should have ended last month, while correction is still cheap. It also carries the employer-side costs that never appear on a payslip, which makes it the bridge between payroll and the general ledger. Because it is produced per run, comparing consecutive registers is the fastest way to spot an unintended change.

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How Payroll Register runs on Workzoom.

Payroll Register 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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Related terms.

Questions about Payroll Register

It is the detailed per-employee record of a pay run, used to review and approve payroll before payment is released and to support audit, reconciliation, and general ledger entries afterwards.
A payslip shows one employee their own earnings and deductions. A register covers every employee in the run and includes employer-side costs that never appear on a payslip.
Because errors can offset. An overpayment to one employee and an underpayment to another can produce a total that looks normal, so a per-employee review is what catches them.
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