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How to read my German employer payroll report?
This article describes how employers in German can read the monthly company payroll report
German Payroll Journal
A wage journal contains detailed, selected payroll data for several employees that were created in a specific period or a selected payroll period.
It is used to:
- Uncover errors that occur in the payroll run,
- Sum up accounting data of an organizational unit,
- Track data development over multiple billing periods and
- to have an additional, detailed control medium for revisions.
The payroll journal can also be used as a release document for the final payroll (e.g. by an organizational unit) vis-à-vis the payroll office / payroll / tax consultant.