
Semi-Monthly Pay Stub: Dates, Salary Math, and Overtime Checks
Learn how to read a semi-monthly pay stub: pay period versus payday, 24 versus 26 checks, salary and hourly examples, overtime boundaries, and YTD review.
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Learn how to read a semi-monthly pay stub: pay period versus payday, 24 versus 26 checks, salary and hourly examples, overtime boundaries, and YTD review.

See how to pair each hourly rate with its hours and earnings, avoid averaging mistakes, and review overtime separately—with an illustrated example.

Learn why gross pay, federal taxable wages, and Social Security and Medicare wages can differ, with a clear illustrated example and field-review checklist.
Review a pay stub template against official state guidance, map required information to fields, and check delivery and the completed statement.

Understand how an invoice differs from a pay stub, what each document records, and why a client payment should not be presented as employee wages.
Review your saved pay stub PDF for clipped text, unclear labels, missing pages, and version mix-ups before sending the document.
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