Review the numbers on a pay stub without uploading the document or providing an employee's identity. PayStubCheck independently reconciles the calculations you enter and explains what deserves a closer look.
Select any option to open its checker. Start with a fast arithmetic check, use the guided detailed review, or compare multiple statements for year-to-date continuity.
Your entries are kept only on this page and will be lost if you refresh or leave.
Use the headline totals exactly as they appear on the statement. Enter deductions as positive numbers; PayStubCheck subtracts them automatically.
Choose the country and currency shown on the pay stub.
Copy the headline totals exactly as printed. Enter deductions as positive numbers.
What Quick Check does: Gross pay − taxes − deductions + net additions = expected net pay. It checks arithmetic only; it does not estimate whether a tax amount itself is correct.
Enter only what the statement or supporting payroll information actually provides. Missing elections are never invented just to produce a result.
Jurisdiction and pay-cycle context.
Copy each current-period earnings line. Hours × rate checks run when both are entered.
Enter current and printed YTD amounts where shown.
Unknown tax treatment is allowed; affected statutory checks will say Unable to determine.
Use for amounts that increase take-home pay without being ordinary gross earnings.
Printed YTD normally includes the current pay period. PayStubCheck converts it to prior-YTD only where an engine requires that direction.
Federal withholding cannot be checked without actual W-4 elections. FICA annual-cap checks need the applicable taxable-wage context.
CPP/QPP eligibility can depend on age and elections. UCC will not ask for a birth date or silently invent eligibility.
PayStubCheck will run browser arithmetic first, then request only supported statutory checks for which enough evidence exists.
Designed for two or three statements. Strong YTD-delta checks run only after you confirm they are consecutive regular-pay statements from the same payroll record.
Leave these unchecked unless you can confirm them. Basic same-year observations still run without confirmation.
A pay stub can look polished and still contain a calculation error. PayStubCheck gives recipients, employers, employees, bookkeepers, and other reviewers a structured way to check the numbers shown on a payroll statement without requiring a document upload or employee identity. The goal is simple: independently recalculate what can actually be checked, explain any difference, and clearly identify what cannot be determined from the information available.
Reconcile reported gross pay against taxes, deductions, reimbursements or other net additions, and reported take-home pay. A difference can point to a missing line item, data-entry mistake, rounding issue, or a payroll adjustment that deserves a closer look.
Detailed Review can check hours × rate, reported earning lines, supported U.S. and Canadian payroll calculations, annual wage-base context, and other relationships when the evidence needed for the calculation is actually supplied.
When two or three statements are consecutive, Compare Pay Stubs can review whether YTD gross pay, tax lines, deductions, and net pay progress consistently between periods. Strong continuity equations run only when the comparison conditions are confirmed.
The checker is designed to be useful to anyone who needs to understand the calculations on a pay statement. That includes landlords and property managers reviewing income documents, dealerships or businesses reviewing payroll information supplied by a customer, small employers checking wage statements before issuing them, bookkeepers reviewing payroll records, and employees checking their own pay.
PayStubCheck does not ask a reviewer to decide whether a document is authentic. Instead, it provides transparent calculations that can become one part of a broader review process. Recipients remain free to apply their own documentation, verification, and acceptance requirements.
Check whether regular hours and rates multiply correctly, whether reported earning lines add to gross pay, and whether overtime or other line items reconcile to the values entered.
Confirm that the tax and deduction amounts shown on the statement add to their reported totals. Detailed Review can perform supported statutory calculations only when the required payroll evidence is available.
Independently calculate expected take-home pay from gross earnings, taxes, deductions, and net additions. Differences are shown in dollars instead of being reduced to a vague pass/fail label.
Review whether current-period amounts logically relate to printed YTD values and, when multiple consecutive statements are available, whether the YTD progression reconciles between pay periods.
Supported 2026 checks can use PayStubCheck's existing federal and state payroll engines, official-source metadata, annual wage-base context, and evidence-sufficiency rules. Missing W-4 or state-election facts are not silently invented.
Supported 2026 Canadian checks use the existing PayStubCheck payroll engine and CRA/Revenu Québec source registry, including distinct CPP/CPP2, QPP/QPP2, EI, Québec EI, and QPIP paths where the required evidence is available.
Use Quick Check for headline gross-to-net arithmetic, Detailed Review for line-by-line and supported statutory calculations, or Compare Pay Stubs for YTD continuity across two or three statements.
Enter reported amounts from the statement rather than estimates. The checker works from the evidence you provide and does not create missing payroll facts just to force a result.
Results are labeled Consistent, Review, Unable to determine, or Not evaluated. The checker explains the calculated amount, reported amount, difference, tolerance, and methodology where applicable.
A calculation discrepancy can identify an issue worth investigating. A consistent result means the evaluated numbers reconciled; it does not establish employment or document authenticity.
Detailed Review can draw on PayStubCheck's existing U.S. federal and state payroll calculation modules. The methodology page publishes jurisdiction coverage, calculation confidence, official references, and last-reviewed dates so reviewers can see exactly what the tool can and cannot independently evaluate.
Explore U.S. calculation coverage →Canadian payroll review uses PayStubCheck's CRA and Revenu Québec source registry. Coverage includes federal/provincial context plus CPP, CPP2, QPP, QPP2, EI and QPIP calculations where sufficient evidence is supplied.
Explore Canadian calculation coverage →The Pay Stub Calculation Checker does not determine whether an employer is real, whether the person actually earned the reported income, whether a PDF is original or altered, or whether a recipient should approve an application. Those are separate questions. The checker is intentionally limited to payroll arithmetic, supported statutory calculations, and internal consistency based on the figures entered.
It independently recalculates figures entered from a pay statement to determine whether earnings, taxes, deductions, additions, net pay, and supported YTD relationships are mathematically consistent. Detailed Review can also run supported statutory calculations when enough payroll evidence is supplied.
No. Calculation consistency is not an authenticity determination. PayStubCheck does not verify the employee's identity, employer identity, employment relationship, income source, or document origin through this tool.
Yes for arithmetic review. Quick Check is provider-neutral because you manually enter the figures shown on the statement. Detailed statutory review depends on supported U.S. or Canadian jurisdiction rules and the payroll information available to the reviewer.
Yes. Universal arithmetic checks work independently of payroll provider. Current statutory review is designed around approved 2026 U.S. and Canadian payroll rules, with published methodology and official-source coverage information.
Two or three consecutive statements can provide additional context because printed YTD figures should normally progress with each regular payroll. PayStubCheck can compare those relationships when the statements are confirmed to be from the same payroll record and there are no intervening off-cycle or correction checks.
No. UCC V1 uses manual entry and does not require an employee name, SSN, SIN, address, employer name, email address, or document upload. Quick Check and Compare Pay Stubs run their payroll arithmetic in the browser.
Yes. PayStubCheck offers the calculation-review modes as free recipient and payroll-review resources.
See the formulas, evidence rules, source coverage, and wage-statement research behind PayStubCheck.