payroll error
Salary calculation blunder
A payroll error is a mistake in calculating or distributing employee compensation—incorrect hours, wrong tax withholdings, missed deductions, or payments to the wrong account.
The term appears in HR contexts and employee communications: We're investigating a payroll error that affected last month's checks.
Such errors can trigger compliance issues and employee grievances.
- paycheckCompensation for labor
- pay stubEarnings and deductions summary
- mistakeWrong action or decision
- underpaidGiven inadequate wages
- overpaidCompensated beyond worth
taxes · tax withholding · deduction · accounting · HR · direct deposit · withholding · glitch · shortage · discrepancy · correction · stub · salary · wages · miscalculation · refund · complaint · backpay
- wageswage, salary, pay, paycheck, income
- calculation errorsmiscalculation, miscount, miscounting, wrong answer, division by zero
- Budget Errorsoverspending, underestimating, cost overrun, shortfall, deficit
- Accounting Errorsmisstatement, overstatement, understatement, omission
payroll errorpayroll fraud
Stealing through compensation systems
embezzlement · wage theft · skimming · time theft · kickback scheme
roll, paying, payer, payers, payable, payment, payments, prepay, rolls