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Asked by: Zsuzsanna Biro
personal finance personal taxesWhat is the term for the total amount of money an employee earns in a pay period?
Then, what is a net pay deduction?
Your full pay before any tax or NationalInsurance has been taken off. The total amount of take-homepay after deductions. This is called your netpay. The amounts of any deductions that change frompayday to payday, known as variable deductions. For exampletax and National Insurance, and what the deductions arefor.
Subsequently, one may also ask, are gross earnings of an employee who is paid a flat amount per week or month regardless of the hours worked in a period?
Salaried employees are often paidsemi-monthly (e.g., on the 15th and last day of themonth) or bi-weekly (e.g., every other Friday) andtheir salaries are often stated as a gross annualamount, such as "$48,000 per year."
YTD is calculated based on your employees'gross incomes. Gross income is the amount anemployee earns before taxes and deductions are taken out.YTD can also include the money paid to your independentcontractors.