© 2026 CoAd. All rights reserved.
Walks employees through the sections of a pay stub, from work information and earnings through deductions, taxes, direct deposit and PTO. Also shows how to find and open past stubs as PDFs.
Your pay stub breaks one pay period into labeled sections — work information, hours and earnings, deductions, taxes, direct deposit, employer paid benefits and PTO — each showing a current-period amount and a year-to-date total.
The Pay Stubs panel provides historical access to pay stubs. A list of available stubs, displaying pay period and check type, is listed in date order.
Note: This pay stub is a non-negotiable document and therefore cannot be cashed.
In the Company and Person sections, you can see the two sides the paycheck represents, such as company and employee. In both sections you can see the names and addresses for both sides.
In the Work Information section, you can see:
Each paycheck represents a pay period, and in the Pay Unit section you can find:
In the Hours and Earnings section, you can see how your gross pay is calculated. The information in this section depends on the earnings type.
Note: If work is calculated on an hourly basis and reported on a daily basis, the pay statement will also be calculated on a daily basis.
The Overtime Daily record gives you accurate information on your total worked hours and compensation. The hourly rate displayed on your pay stub is adjusted between your actual hours and compensation.
Example — a person paid for two overtime types with the same hourly rate of 1.5:
the original article included a sample pay stub image labelling these sections: Company, Work Information, Tax Information, Person, Pay Unit, Hours and Earnings, Employer Paid Benefits, Taxes, Deductions, Paid Time Off Information, Direct Deposit and Pay Details. Each is described in text below, so the image is illustrative only. Re-add it if you want a visual reference.
In the Deductions section, you can see your contribution to each benefit plan enrolled for the pay period. The Deductions section gives the deduction amounts for the pay period and the accumulation year-to-date.
In the Direct Deposit section, you can see the distribution of compensation between accounts.
The Tax Information section provides information on personal federal and state taxes elections and allowances.
The Employer Paid Benefits section provides information on the contribution your employer has made to the benefit plans for the pay period and year-to-date.
In the Taxes section you can see a list of all taxes withheld from your compensation for the pay period and year-to-date.
| Column | What it indicates |
|---|---|
| Description | The name of the PTO plan |
| Start Balance | PTO hours accumulated before the start of the pay period |
| Adjustment | Any corrections made to the total amount of PTO hours this pay period |
| Earned | The amount of PTO hours accumulated for this pay period |
| Taken | The amount of PTO hours used during the pay period |
| End Balance | The amount of PTO hours at the end of the pay period |
The Pay Details section consists of gross pay, total taxes and deductions, from which the net pay is calculated.
No. The pay stub is a non-negotiable document and cannot be cashed. You can print it or save it to your local hard drive as you would any other PDF document.
The Pay Stubs panel provides historical access to pay stubs, listing the available stubs by pay period and check type in date order. Selecting a pay period link opens that check stub as a PDF in a new window or tab, depending on your web browser.
YTD stands for year-to-date. In the Hours and Earnings section, the YTD columns show the hours and amounts that have accumulated since the start of the calendar year, while the Current columns show the figures for this pay period only.
In the Hours and Earnings section, if the Non-Tax column shows YES, the amount in that row is not added to the Total Taxable amount.
The Total Taxable row is labeled Gross (Taxable + Non-Tax - Imputed), which shows how gross pay is calculated. The Pay Details section then takes gross pay, total taxes, and deductions to arrive at your net pay.