Itemised payslip template with automatic totals. Add basic pay, allowances, overtime and deductions; gross and net pay work themselves out. Download as PDF. Use our editable payslip template generator to create your payslips.

What is a pay slip?

A pay slip also called a payslip, pay stub, salary slip or itemised pay statement; is the written record an employer gives an employee each time they are paid. It answers three questions in one page: what was earned, what was taken off, and what was actually received.
The word that matters is itemised. A slip that shows only a single figure paid into a bank account is a receipt, not a pay slip. An itemised pay slip breaks that figure open; basic pay, each allowance, each deduction, overtime, anything extra; so the employee can follow the arithmetic from what they earned to what landed in their account, line by line.

What a pay slip is used for?

A pay slip is a small document with a long reach. It is used to:

Prove income. Lenders, landlords, immigration authorities and background-checking agencies routinely ask for recent pay slips, because they show earnings over a defined period rather than a self-declared number.
Show the employee exactly what was deducted. Tax, pension or provident-fund contributions, loan repayments, unpaid leave — a deduction the employee can see is a deduction they can question at the time, not a year later.
Settle disputes with evidence. When there is a disagreement about overtime, a bonus or a missed allowance, the slip is the contemporaneous record of what was agreed and paid.
Support tax filing and reconciliation. Employees reconcile annual statements against their slips; employers reconcile payroll against their own.
Satisfy record-keeping duties. Most jurisdictions require employers to issue pay statements and to retain payroll records for a set number of years. The slip is that record.

The sections of a pay slip, explained

This template is a full itemised layout, printed across two columns so every item stays legible on a single page. Each section does a specific job.

Heading and pay period. The document title, your logo if you use one, and the period the pay covers, entered as a start and end date. Everything below relates to that window and nothing outside it.
The parties and the payment. The employer's registered name and the employee's full name, identifying who paid whom. Beside them sit the date of payment; the day the money was actually paid, which is the date most notice periods and record-keeping rules run from; and the mode of payment: cash, cheque or bank deposit.
Basic pay (A). The contractual salary for the period, before anything is added or taken off. It is the baseline every other figure is measured against.
Allowances (B). Payments made on top of basic salary; transport, meal, shift, housing, site or responsibility allowances. Each one is listed on its own row with its own amount, then totalled. Listing them individually is the difference between an employee being able to check their transport allowance and simply having to trust it.
Gross pay (C) = A + B. Total earnings for the period before any deduction. This is the figure most people mean by "salary", and it is almost never the figure that reaches the bank.
Deductions (D). Everything taken off gross pay: income tax withheld, statutory pension or provident-fund contributions, insurance premiums, salary advances, loan repayments, unpaid leave. Each deduction is its own row, so the employee can see not just how much was taken but what for.
Overtime (E). Overtime is itemised separately from ordinary pay, and for a reason: it is usually calculated at a different rate and often covers a different period from the salary month. The slip records the overtime period, the hours worked and the total overtime pay; three facts that together let the employee check the rate they were paid.
Other additional payments (F). One-off amounts that are neither salary nor allowance: bonuses, commissions, expense reimbursements, ex-gratia and goodwill payments. Itemised, because a bonus and a reimbursement are very different things and should never be blurred into one line.
Net pay = C − D + E + F. The amount actually paid; gross pay, less deductions, plus overtime and any additional payments. This is the number that should match the bank transfer exactly.
Employer contribution. Some contributions are paid by the employer on top of salary rather than deducted from it. This line records that amount for transparency, and is deliberately excluded from net pay; it is a cost to the employer, not a payment to the employee.
Footer note. Where to raise a discrepancy and by when. A slip that tells the employee how to query it is more useful than one that does not.

The letters are real, not decoration

The references (A) to (F) are not labels typed alongside the figures — they are the arithmetic. Every total is computed from the rows beneath it, and net pay is computed from the letters exactly as the formula states. Add an allowance and B, C and net pay all move together.

You cannot issue a slip whose net pay contradicts the items above it, which on a document somebody may later rely on is exactly the error worth designing out.

How to create a pay slip

Whatever tool you use, a correct pay slip is built in the same order:

1. Fix the period and the payment date. Decide what the slip covers and the date the moneywas, or will be, paid.

2. Gather the details. Employer and employee names, and the payment method.

3. Start from basic pay, taken from the employment contract for that period.

4. List every addition separately — allowances first, then overtime, then any one-off payments. Resist the urge to merge them; a merged line is a line nobody can check.

5. List every deduction separately, with a description that names what each one is for.

6. Work out net pay as gross, minus deductions, plus overtime, plus additional payments — and confirm it matches the amount actually transferred.

7. Issue it promptly and keep your copy. Give the slip to the employee at or shortly after payment, and retain a copy for your payroll records.

### How to use this template

1. Open the template and click Generate.

2. Fill in the employer, employee, pay period and payment details.

3. Enter basic pay, then add one row per allowance and one row per deduction. Add as many rows as you need.

4. Add overtime hours and pay if there was any — enter 0 if there was none — along with any other additional payments.

5. Watch the totals fill themselves in. Allowances, deductions, additional payments, gross

pay and net pay are all calculated as you type; there is nothing to add up by hand.

6. Generate and download the PDF, then issue it to your employee and keep a copy.

Who is this for

Employers of every size who need to issue proper itemised pay slips without buying payroll software; HR and office managers running payroll by hand; accountants and corporate services firms preparing slips on a client's behalf; and anyone who has been asked for a pay slip and needs one that stands up to being read closely.

Note: This template is provided for convenience and general information only and is not legal, tax or payroll advice. What a pay slip must contain, which employees are entitled to one, how quickly it must be issued and how long payroll records must be kept all vary by country and change over time — check the rules that apply to you, or ask your payroll adviser. A pay slip must reflect pay that was genuinely earned and genuinely paid.

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Itemised Pay Slip Template