Paystub Template
Use the Classic Blue pay stub template to create a clean, easy-to-read pay stub with earnings, deductions, tax fields, YTD values, and PDF download.
Color · Royal blue
Sample data, shown for illustration. Colors are included in the price.
Use it in Royal blue →The layout
An Employer block opens the page, with the “Earnings Statement” title, pay date, period, frequency, filing status and check number on the right. Two light cards follow side by side: Employee (name, address, masked SSN, employee ID) and Pay Summary (gross pay, total deductions and net pay).
Earnings and deductions sit in two rounded cards next to each other, each ending on a tinted total row. A net pay bar runs under them, and a year-to-date block gives YTD gross, YTD deductions and YTD net pay. Any notes print at the bottom.
On the stub
Best for
Readers who want the answer first: the Pay Summary card shows gross, deductions and net pay before any table, so the stub reads well on a phone screen as well as on paper.
Overview
The Classic Blue Pay Stub Template is a modern cards layout: rounded cards or tiles, with net pay as a card or bar. Clean classic pay stub layout with cards, earnings, deductions, and net pay summary.
From top to bottom it runs employer block and title with pay date, period and check number, employee card, pay Summary card: gross pay, deductions, net pay and earnings and deductions cards side by side, and then the rest of the stub. You fill it in once in the builder, the taxes and totals are worked out for you, and the finished pay stub downloads as a PDF.
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Section by section
It opens the Classic Blue. This is where the payer is named. On the Classic Blue it carries the company name and address, and the EIN and phone when you enter them; add a logo and it prints here too.
The second block on the Classic Blue. Who was paid. The Classic Blue prints the name and address, an employee ID if you use one, and the SSN masked to its last four digits.
The third block on the Classic Blue. The short answer before or after the detail: gross pay, total deductions and net pay together. On the Classic Blue it is the quickest place to confirm the stub matches the deposit.
The fourth block on the Classic Blue. The working part of the stub: pay lines on one side, taxes and deductions on the other. Rate × hours should equal each earnings amount, and the builder estimates federal, Social Security, Medicare and state lines you can still edit.
The fifth block on the Classic Blue. Net pay, the amount actually paid: gross pay minus every tax and deduction above, plus any non-taxable reimbursement. It should match the deposit to the cent.
It closes the Classic Blue. The year so far. On the Classic Blue, YTD totals sum every pay date in the calendar year up to and including this one, so consecutive stubs should step up by each period’s figures.
Fields
| You enter | It prints in |
|---|---|
| Company name, address, EIN, phone and logo | Employer block and title with pay date, period and check number |
| Employee name, address and ID | Employee card |
| Last four digits of the SSN | Employee card |
| Pay period, pay date and pay frequency | Employer block and title with pay date, period and check number |
| Hours and rate, or the salary for the period | Earnings and deductions cards side by side |
| Overtime, bonus, commission and tips lines | Earnings and deductions cards side by side |
| Federal, state, Social Security and Medicare (estimated) | Pay Summary card: gross pay, deductions, net pay |
| Your own deductions (health plan, retirement, garnishment) | Pay Summary card: gross pay, deductions, net pay |
| Year-to-date totals | Pay Summary card: gross pay, deductions, net pay |
| Memo or notes | Year-to-date block and notes |
The tax lines are estimated from the pay, frequency, filing status and state you enter, and you can change any of them. How paycheck taxes are calculated explains each one, and the pay stub glossary defines every abbreviation on the stub.
Colours
The Classic Blue comes in Royal blue, Navy, Tide blue, Lagoon, Emerald, Plum, Berry and Black & white, with Royal blue as its standard colour. The colour you choose recolours the accents (card headers, tinted totals and the net pay bar); the figures and layout stay the same, and every colour is included in the price.
Document type
The Classic Blue is laid out as a pay stub: the short, practical record that comes with a paycheck or direct deposit. Payroll systems also call the same record an earnings statement or pay slip; the contents do not change with the name: who was paid, for which period, gross pay, each tax and deduction, net pay and the year to date.
Best use
The Classic Blue breaks the stub into cards with totals that stand out, which reads well on a small screen and in a PDF viewer.
The Classic Blue prints the full set of withholding lines (federal, Social Security, Medicare, state) for a W-2 employee’s stub.
The Classic Blue prints year-to-date figures in “Year-to-date block and notes”, so a run of consecutive stubs shows the year building up period by period.
Compare
The Classic Blue belongs to the Modern cards family, with Detailed Blue, Tile Grid, Banner Card and Tabbed Card. They share the same overall order; what sets the Classic Blue apart is clean classic pay stub layout with cards, earnings, deductions, and net pay summary.
Compare them: Detailed Blue · Tile Grid · Banner Card · Tabbed Card
Print and PDF
Rounded cards and tinted totals carry the colour you pick, so it looks best printed in colour or opened as a PDF on a screen; in black and white the cards still keep their borders. The PDF is made from the same layout you see in the preview, so what you check is what you get.
Need several periods? The multi-stub builder makes consecutive stubs in this layout with year-to-date totals carried forward, and the sample pay stub walks through every line with real figures.
Before you download
Sources: IRS Publication 15 (Circular E), Employer’s Tax Guide; IRS Topic 751, Social Security and Medicare withholding rates; U.S. Department of Labor, Fact Sheet #21: Recordkeeping under the FLSA.
How it works
Open the builder with the Classic Blue already selected (the “Use This Template” button does this).
Enter the company and the person paid; the business prints in the “Employer block and title with pay date, period and check number” block.
Add the pay period, pay date and each kind of pay; the lines fill “Earnings and deductions cards side by side”.
Check the estimated taxes and add your own deductions (they print in “Pay Summary card: gross pay, deductions, net pay”); every amount can be edited.
Pick a colour (Royal blue, Navy and Tide blue or another), preview the whole stub, then download the PDF.
Before download
PayStubGo is an online paystub generator, not a payroll service. Your paystub is created from the information you provide. Review all details carefully before exporting your final PDF and use generated documents responsibly.
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FAQ
It is titled as a pay stub, and it holds the same record either way: who was paid, for which period, gross pay, taxes and deductions, net pay and the year to date.
Royal blue, Navy, Tide blue, Lagoon, Emerald, Plum, Berry and Black & white. The colour changes the accents only, and every colour is included.
Yes. The “Year-to-date block and notes” part carries the year-to-date figures. Make several consecutive stubs at once and the builder carries the totals forward from one period to the next.
Contractor / 1099 mode works with every template and turns off withholding. For headings that read Payer and Contractor, pick a template tagged Contractor-ready, such as Stacked Ledger.
No. The Classic Blue is filled in online and delivered as a finished PDF, with the taxes and totals worked out. You can preview it free before you pay.
Yes. This page shows a sample of the template, and the builder shows your own figures in it live before anything is paid for.
Yes. Your details stay in the builder when you change templates, so you can compare layouts with your own figures before you download.
Yes. PayStubGo lets you enter company, employee, earnings, deductions, pay period, and optional YTD details before previewing the final paystub.
Preview the layout, enter your pay details, and download the finished PDF.
