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Your Guide to Take-home Pay

Patriot Software

As an employer, you are responsible for withholding various taxes from employees’ wages. After you subtract all of the taxes and other deductions, money left over is considered take-home pay. Read on to learn more about what is take-home pay and how to calculate it. What is take home pay?

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Can Payroll Services Handle Direct Deposit?

Patriot Software

Most employers handle direct deposit through their payroll software. Payroll services calculate employees’ wages, taxes and deductions, and take-home pay. […] Read More Direct deposit is a convenient payment method for employees, who receive their paycheck quickly and securely on payday.

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Employees and Employers Save with Cafeteria Plans

InterWest Insurance Services

Because these benefits are free from federal and state income taxes, an employee’s taxable income is reduced, which increases the percentage of their take-home pay. The plans benefit employers, as well. A cafeteria plan can save employers an average of almost $115 per participant in FICA payroll taxes.

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What can benefits technology tell an employer about its workforce?

Employee Benefits

Need to know: Enriching benefits data with information from other sources can help employers create personalised benefit offerings. Low take-up rates do not always indicate a benefit is not popular: it may need an awareness or education campaign to boost engagement. Several different types of benefit technology are available.

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Payroll Services Mailbag: Third-party payroll, taxable perks and more

Business Management Daily

Employment tax compliance expert Alice Gilman, along with the editors of Business Management Daily’s Payroll Legal Alert, answer subscribers questions on payroll. W-2s: Pay to play? Question: One of the reasons the company switched third-party payroll providers was to allow employees to access their W-2s from home.

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What are the pros and cons of digital self-service pay systems?

Employee Benefits

Need to know: Involving employees in a digital self-service pay system can help boost engagement and retention with the organisation. Quick and easy access to payroll information can also help employees see the impact on pay of benefit take up. Employers] get more buy-in and loyalty from employees,” Fowler says.

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Cost of living crisis: 7 ways employers can support employees

cipHR

Inflation doesn’t just mean rising costs for workers and their employers; UK organisations could soon be faced with workforces that are unengaged, distracted and unhappy because of the state of their finances. Pay: real living wage, and salary increases. Get payroll right. Pay: real living wage, and salary increases.

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