With changing times, it is no longer sufficient that you give your employees just a written statement of the amount they have been paid. Times have changed and keeping the pace with these changes is the need of the hour.
You can either access your paystubs online or create a system of your own to distribute pay stubs to your employees. In short, this blog will discuss how you can create or access pay stubs online. So, let’s get started!
How to Create Pay Stubs
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You can create pay stubs yourself or use The Best Paystubs to do it for you. If you run a small business and your employees are paid hourly, then creating the pay stubs yourself should be easy enough.
All you need to know is what information has to be included on the employee’s pay stub.
- Your company name that employs the individual
- The location of where your company is physically located (if applicable)
- The wage rate or salary amount that is being paid to the employed individual
- The number of hours the employee has worked per day/week/month (if applicable)
How to Access Pay Stub Online
If you’ve ever been worried that you’ve shorten some hours on your paycheck but don’t know how to access your pay stub, just keep on reading, we’re here to help you out and make sure you get that money you’ve worked so hard to earn.
There are a couple of ways to access your pay stub online:
- You can get it directly from your employer, or they may offer it through the company website where you should have an employee profile that you can log into and find all of your financial paystubs in a digital copy format.
- If you bank with their financial institution, you may be able to see the information there as well. In addition, some employers use time-tracking applications now that you can download as a phone app that keeps track of all your working hours and paystubs that you can check if there is ever a discrepancy in the paid amount shown on your paycheck.
Tips on Navigating Your Online Pay Stubs
Once you’ve got your pay stub in hand, there are a few things that you should know about how to read it.
Look at the top of the document for information about your employer and location. This will include:
- The name of your company or organization, including a tax ID number (e.g., “XYZ Corporation” and “Tax ID Number 123456789”) if applicable
- Your state’s abbreviation (e.g., FL for Florida)
- The city where you work
- It should also include a breakdown of the reported hours you worked at the hourly pay rate or salary rate that is due to you so that you can determine if any missing hours are unaccounted for
Why are my last two pay stubs missing?
- Is it possible that you are looking at the wrong pay period? (happens all the time!)
- Check the dates.
- Check the pay period.
- Check the pay period ending date.
- Check the pay stub’s “Pay Period Start” and “Pay Period End” dates to make sure they match up with your company’s payroll schedule.
What do I do if my pay stub is wrong?
If you suspect that your pay stub is wrong, there are several steps you can take to get it corrected. First, contact your HR department and ask them to look into it. If they find that the issue was on their end, then they will correct it in future paychecks.
It also doesn’t hurt if you were to start keeping track of your own work hours and missed time/days when there are discrepancies on your pay stubs. You have your own records proving that you did indeed work those days/hours that are missing.
If there’s been an error on your W-2 and this is the cause of a discrepancy in how much money has been deposited into your bank account (or vice versa), talk with your manager about what happened and have them help explain the situation either verbally or in writing so that everyone’s on the same page moving forward.
You can access and create pay stubs online.
Paystubs are a great way to keep track of how much money you make each month. They also help you avoid mistakes when filing taxes, as they can show what your pay was and to whom it was paid.
Your paystubs are usually issued by an employer, but some companies will allow employees to create them themselves online.
Here’s how:
- Log on to the website of your employer and choose “payroll” from the menu bar at the top of the page. This will take you into their payroll system, which should have a section called “employee paycheck” or something similar (if not, contact HR).
- Click on “create paycheck.” If prompted for log-in credentials, enter them and click OK or Submit until you reach a blank form that looks like this:
Of course, not all companies may have this option on their company employee login website, so if that’s the case, your best bet is to get in touch with your company’s HR department and have them get involved with finding and creating a solution to make sure that you and everyone else has easy access to their pay stubs.
