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Taxes and Deductions
Seasonal Second Jobs and Withholding: Why More Tax Came Out
When you pick up a seasonal second job, your tax withholding often changes unexpectedly. Here is how dual-job withholding works across both paystubs.
Paystub Basics
Custom Deduction Labels: Naming Best Practices for Paystubs
How to name custom deductions so anyone can tell what each one paid for, whether it was pre-tax, and how its year-to-date total built up.
Taxes and Deductions
What Is the FICA Deduction on Your Pay Stub?
Understand the FICA deduction on your paycheck stub. Read how this mandatory federal tax splits into Social Security and Medicare, and trace your wage-base limits.
Paystub Basics
Commission Earnings on a Paystub: What to Review
Tiered rates, draws, splits and chargebacks all change the commission line. Here is how to trace it to the plan, the sales report and the YTD totals.
Paystub Basics
Overtime Calculation: How Overtime Pay Is Figured and Taxed
Learn how overtime pay is calculated under federal regular rate rules, how bonuses affect your rate, and how payroll withholding applies to overtime wages.
Paystub Basics
Direct Deposit Paystubs Without a Physical Check: What They Show
What a paystub shows when pay goes straight to a bank account, how split deposits add up to net pay, and the few cases where a check number still belongs.
Paystub Basics
Overtime Pay on a Pay Stub: Regular vs Overtime Lines
Regular and overtime lines explained with worked arithmetic, the FLSA regular rate, and the qualified overtime amount employers report with W-2 code TT.
Paystub Basics
Partial Pay Periods and Prorated Earnings on a Paystub
How first, final and unpaid-leave pay periods are prorated for salaried and hourly employees, with three calculation methods compared side by side.
Paystub Basics
Earnings on a Paystub: Regular, Overtime, Bonus and Commission
How regular, overtime, bonus, commission and other earnings lines are figured, how they build gross pay and YTD, and how to lay several out on one stub.
Paystub Basics
Expense Reimbursement on a Paystub: Earnings or Not?
Why an expense reimbursement belongs below the deductions, when the IRS treats it as wages instead, and how a misplaced line skews taxes and YTD gross.
Paystub Basics
How Bonus Pay Appears on a Paystub
Bonus lines, separate bonus checks, the 2026 percentage and aggregate withholding methods, and how a nondiscretionary bonus can change overtime pay.
Paystub Basics
Biweekly vs Semimonthly Pay: 26 vs 24 Paychecks Explained
Biweekly and semimonthly stubs differ in check size, pay dates, hours and third-paycheck months. Worked examples and a 2026 to 2027 payday table.
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