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A recent study reveals that a staggering 75% of Australians are not routinely reviewing their payslips, despite ongoing issues with payroll errors affecting many in the workforce.
The most prevalent problem is inaccurate pay, with 46.7% of workers reporting they have received incorrect payments. This typically stems from errors in logged hours, pay rates, or salary calculations.
Casual workers are the group most likely to detect these errors, possibly because their varying work hours make discrepancies more apparent.
Following closely behind, 31.1% of employees have encountered missing overtime or penalty rates, with full-time workers being particularly vigilant about ensuring these entitlements are correctly applied.
Finally, incorrect leave balances rank third among common payroll issues, impacting 18.6% of employees. Mistakes in recording annual and sick leave often go unnoticed until they have significantly accumulated.
Even with those figures, many Australians still aren’t checking closely.
Almost half of those surveyed said they don’t review their payslips because they trust their employer or payroll system, while others assume it’s correct because they’ve never noticed a problem before.
A further 23.2 per cent say they only look at the amount deposited into their bank account, rather than the breakdown behind it – suggesting a large share of workers may not be reviewing their payslips at all.
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