Contains the total amount of money to withdraw from the company's account as part of paying employees and each employee’s compensation components.
The Payroll object captures the wages earned by employees in a given pay period for a specific payday. You can preview the payroll to generate net pay, after taxes, benefit deductions, and post tax deductions, and then approve the payroll to confirm the calculations, and transition the payroll into the pending status. For more details, check out the Life of a Payroll guide.
By default, Payroll Items and Contractor Payments are not shown on their associated Payroll. However, Payrolls with 500 or fewer payroll items and contractor payments may optionally use the query parameters include_items and include_contractor_payments to create, view, and update Payroll Items and Contractor Payments directly in-line with the Payroll.
{
"id": "pay_Z26PNMC7Ky1wfFQzVqfF",
"company": "com_sx3svU6K8c5ZkSFlOh5p",
"period_start": "2019-06-16",
"period_end": "2019-06-29",
"approval_deadline": "2019-07-02T00:00:00.000000Z",
"approved_at": "2019-06-29T18:26:56.848920Z",
"payday": "2019-07-05",
"status": "paid",
"type": "regular",
"pay_frequency": "biweekly",
"funding_payment_method": "ach",
"processing_period": "three_day",
"off_cycle_options": null,
"managed": true,
"preview": {
"status": "succeeded",
"started_at": "2019-06-29T18:26:56.848920Z"
},
"totals": {
"employee_gross": "961.54",
"employee_reimbursements": "0.00",
"employee_taxes": "249.23",
"employee_benefits": "0.00",
"post_tax_deductions": "0.00",
"employee_net": "712.31",
"contractor_gross": "100.00",
"contractor_reimbursements": "15.00",
"contractor_net": "115.00",
"company_taxes": "73.56",
"company_benefits": "0.00",
"liability": "1150.10",
"cash_requirement": "1150.10"
},
"is_void": false,
"warnings": [],
"metadata": {}
}
{
"id": "pay_Z26PNMC7Ky1wfFQzVqfF",
"company": "com_sx3svU6K8c5ZkSFlOh5p",
"period_start": "2019-06-16",
"period_end": "2019-06-29",
"approval_deadline": "2019-07-02T00:00:00.000000Z",
"approved_at": "2019-06-29T18:26:56.848920Z",
"payday": "2019-07-05",
"status": "paid",
"type": "regular",
"pay_frequency": "biweekly",
"funding_payment_method": "ach",
"processing_period": "three_day",
"off_cycle_options": null,
"managed": true,
"preview": {
"status": "succeeded",
"started_at": "2019-06-29T18:26:56.848920Z"
},
"totals": {
"employee_gross": "961.54",
"employee_reimbursements": "0.00",
"employee_taxes": "249.23",
"employee_benefits": "0.00",
"post_tax_deductions": "0.00",
"employee_net": "712.31",
"contractor_gross": "100.00",
"contractor_reimbursements": "15.00",
"contractor_net": "115.00",
"company_taxes": "73.56",
"company_benefits": "0.00",
"liability": "1150.10",
"cash_requirement": "1150.10"
},
"items": [
{
"id": "itm_yvmmsVGFxLoBaMIkqzea",
"payroll": "pay_Z26PNMC7Ky1wfFQzVqfF",
"employee": "emp_zGGp6wYcxAeu1Ng8IA7v",
"status": "draft",
"payment_method": "direct_deposit",
"net_pay": "712.31",
"earnings": [
{
"amount": "961.54",
"hours": 40.0,
"type": "hourly",
"workplace": "wrk_cxcG4vjGKcSXZk1fgKai",
"code": null,
"description": null
}
],
"reimbursements": [],
"taxes": [
{
"tax": "tax_I1Z9zqbBGWIbvlZpN2Vq",
"description": "New York SDI",
"amount": "0.60",
"payer": "employee"
},
{
"tax": "tax_ImvSF9CTuMdokf0uwx5x",
"description": "Employer FICA Tax",
"amount": "59.62",
"payer": "company"
},
{
"tax": "tax_yjNkKk061BTipYv7G4Ti",
"description": "New York City Tax",
"amount": "31.04",
"payer": "employee"
},
{
"tax": "tax_S1krAkh75RzdWu5J53HA",
"description": "New York State Tax",
"amount": "44.20",
"payer": "employee"
},
{
"tax": "tax_UJrIQbtVErbdez0bYTVN",
"description": "New York Family Leave Benefits",
"amount": "1.47",
"payer": "employee"
},
{
"tax": "tax_1XHqR9Qf5t18SD2sfYEe",
"description": "Medicare",
"amount": "13.94",
"payer": "employee"
},
{
"tax": "tax_8L3JLfsH4X6dp0maBWfW",
"description": "Federal Income Tax",
"amount": "98.36",
"payer": "employee"
},
{
"tax": "tax_ibU8cGhC5OlpOjoQFIXV",
"description": "FICA",
"amount": "59.62",
"payer": "employee"
},
{
"tax": "tax_O3f21hkS1cvHBZTa61BO",
"description": "Employer Medicare Tax",
"amount": "13.94",
"payer": "company"
}
],
"benefits": [],
"benefit_overrides": [],
"post_tax_deductions": [],
"post_tax_deduction_overrides": [],
"warnings": []
}
],
"is_void": false,
"warnings": [],
"metadata": {}
}
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| id string | Unique identifier for the payroll. |
| company string | ID of the company that the payroll relates to. |
| period_start YYYY-MM-DD | Start of the date range that the payroll covers. |
| period_end YYYY-MM-DD | End of the date range that the payroll covers. |
| approval_deadline datetime | Datetime by which the payroll must be approved. |
| approved_at datetime | Datetime at which the payroll was approved.null for payrolls with a status of draft. |
| payday YYYY-MM-DD | Date on which employees will be paid for the payroll. A list of valid paydays for payrolls paid via direct deposit is available in the /paydays endpoint. |
| status string | Status of the payroll in its lifecycle. One of draft, pending, processing, failed, partially_paid, or paid. |
| type string | Indicates whether the payroll is a regular, off-cycle, or amendment payroll. One of regular,off_cycle, amendment, balancing or third_party_sick_pay. |
| pay_frequency string | Frequency by which employees get paid. One of weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, monthly, quarterly, or annually. |
| funding_payment_method string | Payment method for funding the payroll. One of ach or wire. |
| pay_schedule string | ID of the pay schedule that the payroll relates to. |
| processing_period string | The processing period for this payroll. If not explicitly set, this value is set to the company's processing period at the time when the payroll is created. For two_day-approved companies, the processing period for the particular payroll can be upgraded to one_day without restriction. On the other hand, the request would fail for three_day-approved companies. |
| off_cycle_options off-cycle options object | Additional configuration options controlling off-cycle payroll behavior.null for payrolls of type regular. |
| managed boolean | Indicates whether the payroll's lifecycle is being managed by Check. |
| preview preview object | The status and datetime of the most recent preview calculation for the payroll.null if the payroll has not yet been previewed, or if the payroll or any related payroll items or contractor payments were modified after the most recent preview. |
| totals totals object | Calculated totals for various payroll categories.null for payrolls with a status of draft outside of the preview endpoint. |
| items array of payroll item objects | The set of payroll items associated with the payroll. Only returned if include_items is set to true.Note only one payroll item per employee is allowed per payroll. |
| contractor_payments array of contractor payment objects | The set of contractor payments associated with the payroll. Only returned if include_contractor_payments is set to true.Note only one contractor payment per contractor is allowed per payroll. |
| is_void boolean | Indicates whether a payroll is a void. |
| warnings | List of payroll warnings objects. |
| metadata object | Additional loosely structured information to associate with the payroll. |
| bank_account string | ID of the bank account that will be used to fund the payroll. |