Check your pay stub

[hamchan]

Keep your own records of hours worked, commissions earned etc. and check your figures against your paycheck each time you get paid. Check your withholdings also and make sure they are correct. I have found hundreds of dollars worth of payroll errors on my pay stubs over the years. It's somewhat inevitable that it will happen occasionally. Last week I found an error that got me another $55 after taxes. If I had not looked and kept my own records I never would have known. Make sure you are getting all of the money you worked for.

[AceDet]

Very good advice!

[disneysteve]

Good advice. My daughter actually discovered this at her summer job both this year and last year. She has worked there at other times with a different pay rate (lower) so when she started at the higher salary, they never adjusted her account. They paid her for the right number of hours but at the old rate.

Then this year she was hired at a lower rate and the same thing happened in the other direction - they overpaid her and that needed to be adjusted.

[hamchan]

Yes, overpayments can be just as bad as underpayments since the overage will likely be deducted from future checks. The longer it goes unnoticed the more you will have to pay back.

[fruitbowlk]

Yep. My company had to seen me a check because they short one of my checks. I didn't even know it.