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Your Guide to Take-home Pay

Patriot Software

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? Take-home pay consists of the […] READ MORE.

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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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What Are Payroll Deductions?

Patriot Software

You know there are deductions to take out of your employees’ paychecks. What do you withhold from an employee’s take-home pay? What are payroll deductions? Read on to learn the different deductions you have to take out of each employee’s paycheck. What are payroll deductions?

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How to Calculate Net Pay for Payroll

Patriot Software

Between taxes and benefit deductions, the employee’s take-home pay could be far from the $50,000 sticker price (cue the sad violin). To find their take-home pay, you need to know how to calculate net pay. Employee salary: $50,000 a year. But you know that’s not what they’re walking away with.

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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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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. A cafeteria plan can save employers an average of almost $115 per participant in FICA payroll taxes. The plans benefit employers, as well.

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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. If I want to order a takeaway on Deliveroo, I want it now,” she says.

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