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When you start work you should be given a payslip each time you get paid.

Your payslip tells you exactly how much money you have been paid (gross pay) and how much has been deducted, so that you actually receive a sum called net pay.

The official name for a payslip is a "pay statement". Your employer must give you one. If you are paid in cash it might be written on your wage packet. It outlines how much you have earned and how much has been deducted from your pay. The main deductions are tax and National Insurance.

The payslip should have on it: your name, your personnel number if your employer has given you one and your National Insurance number.

Click the download here to see an example of a payslip.

 

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