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title: "Reading your payslip"
description: "The Pay screen: how base earnings are priced, what gets deducted, and what \"Waiting for the next run\" means."
---

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# Reading your payslip

The **Pay** screen lists one payslip per period, newest first, with **Net pay** and a status on
each row. Before anything has been run the screen says so plainly: "Payslips appear here
after your first payroll run."

## The three states of a payment

| Status | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| **Calculated** | An admin ran the period; the amount exists and is being reviewed. |
| **Approved** | The amount has been approved and is waiting for the actual transfer. |
| **Paid** | Payroll has marked this payment as paid out. "Paid on" gets its date only now. |

## What a payslip is made of

Open a row for your full payslip — the same breakdown payroll sees:

- **Base earnings** — priced from your compensation profile: on an hourly profile, the
  window's **regular minutes** times your hourly rate; on a monthly profile, the period's
  monthly amount, which does not move with the hours. The "Timesheet days" table below lists
  the days of the period this payment carries, with each day's regular minutes.
- **Earnings** — everything above base: overtime, bonus, commission, reimbursement,
  PTO payout and so on.
- **Deductions** — income tax, National Health Insurance, labor insurance, supplementary
  NHI, plus any other deduction.
- **Gross pay − Total deductions = Net pay**.

> **Money units**
>
> Every amount in the system is stored and computed as integer cents, and converted only for
> display.

## What "Waiting for the next run" means

A strip sometimes appears above the payslip list titled **Waiting for the next run**:
adjustments recorded against you that no pay period has collected yet — a freshly
approved claim, for example. They sit in [the pool](/en/docs/payroll/pool/) until a run of a
CLAIMS stream that takes their category (the kind that pays claims, bonuses and the like), for a
period ending on or after the date shown on the row, collects them onto that period's payslip; a
SALARY stream, which pays salaries, never collects them.

- **Approved** rows are collected by such a run.
- **Pending approval** rows are shown too (you want to know they're queued), but they
  are only paid once approved.
- Once a row is collected by a period it appears on **that period's payslip** and leaves
  this strip — the same money never reads as two payments.

> **Chasing a claim?**
>
> If the question is "has that claim been paid", look at **Payment status** on the claim's
> detail page — only when it flips from "Approved — not yet paid" to "Paid" has the payment
> carrying it been marked paid. The full journey is in [From claim to payment](/en/docs/payroll/claims/).

Source: https://peoplematter.app/en/docs/payroll/payslip/index.mdx