Pay Stub Generator

To make a pay stub, a check stub or a paycheck stub, enter the business and employee details, the pay period, the pay and the W-4, and the generator works out the taxes and deductions with year-to-date totals. Print it or save it as a PDF to give the employee. The same steps make payroll stubs for each person on the team. The same form works as a check stub creator, with no watermark.

Most states that require a stub ask for gross pay, hours and rates for hourly staff, each deduction, net pay, the pay period, the employee's name and ID, and the employer's name and address. California lists nine items in Labor Code 226(a); the generator asks for every item your state requires before it makes the stub.

Federal law does not require pay stubs, though it requires payroll records. Most states do. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Dakota and Tennessee have no general pay stub law, and Texas exempts employees the FLSA covers.

Yes: a free pay stub generator and pay stub creator with a calculator built in, a free paycheck stub maker and a free check stub generator with no sign-up, no watermark and no app to install. The stub is built in your browser, on a phone or a computer, and nothing is sent anywhere.

Federal income tax uses the 2026 IRS Pub 15-T tables and the W-4; Social Security is 6.2% up to $184,500 of wages and Medicare 1.45%; state income tax and state contributions follow the state's 2026 rules. See the payroll calculator for the full math.

A contractor gets a payment statement, not a pay stub: no taxes are withheld, and the payments are reported on Form 1099-NEC. Switch the statement to contractor above. The self-employed have no payroll and no pay stub of their own; a statement records only what was really paid.

Only with figures from pay that was really paid. A stub with made-up figures used to get a loan, a lease or benefits is fraud.