# Help me read my payroll slip
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-read-my-payroll-slip/162359
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [March 18, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-read-my-payroll-slip/162359 "2003-03-18T20:19:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@skaterboarder87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skaterboarder87)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-read-my-payroll-slip/162359/1 "2003-03-18T20:19:42Z")
I need to find out how much Vacation Time/ Sick Leave I have, but the sheet is confusing as hell. If someone can help me make sense of this, I’d really appreciate it. Here’s what it looks like.
Pay Type Hours Current YTD
Regular 21.50 206.10 1,529.08
Sick Pay 6.00 57.52 128.30
Vacation Pay 27.92
Sick Lv Accr 1.40 8.56
Vacation Accr 1.75 10.70
- Sick Taken/Available \* 7.50 32.74
- Vacation Taken/Available 3.00 28.20
So what does all that mean? Many thanks.
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### Author:  [@skaterboarder87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skaterboarder87)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-read-my-payroll-slip/162359/2 "2003-03-18T20:21:26Z")
Well, that didn’t work. Here’s a picture of what I’m talking about:
[http://www.advancegb.com/upload/pay.jpg](http://www.advancegb.com/upload/pay.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2003, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-read-my-payroll-slip/162359/3 "2003-03-18T20:31:44Z")
It appears that in the pay period (last week? last 2 weeks?) for which that check was issued, you had taken 6 hours of sick time. So far this year, it looks like you took 7.5 hours of sick time, and 3 hours of vacation time.
It would appear that you have 32.74 hours of sick time remaining, as well as 28.20 hours of vacation. I’ve never seen it done like that ( what is .74 hour? ), so if I were you, figure you have 32 hours sick time (4 days), and 28 hours of vacation (3.5 days), and you’ll be ok.
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### Author:  [@skaterboarder87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skaterboarder87)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-read-my-payroll-slip/162359/4 "2003-03-18T20:43:15Z")
Great, thank you so much, that’s kind of what I figured.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-read-my-payroll-slip/162359/5 "2003-03-18T20:58:56Z")
I’ve worked some crummy places but never someplace that was so bad I was afraid to ask my boss how much vacation time I had accrued. :eek:
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### Author:  [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-read-my-payroll-slip/162359/6 "2003-03-18T21:03:27Z")
Can you not ask your boss or HR dept.? It might be that someone here misinterprets it (not necessarily you, Casey1505). That would suck if you thought you had such-and-such hours accrued and then found out you were reading the pay stub wrong.