Admins with the required permissions can view all payrolls and contractor payments that were processed through Gusto, along with other reports with more detailed information.
Future pay dates can be viewed on the Gusto calendar.
Any unprocessed payrolls older than 90 days will be moved to the Archived payrolls tab. These payrolls can still be processed if needed.
Employees and domestic contractors can view their paystubs and payment details in their Gusto account.
View employee payrolls Employers can preview payrolls on the final step of running payroll. To review a payroll after it's been submitted:
- Sign in to Gusto.
- Click the Pay section and select Pay history.
- Make sure you're on the Payroll history tab.
- Click the payroll check date to view a summary, which includes:
- All taxes
- Payments
- Paystubs
- Employees
- Bank account used (in the "Payroll details" section)
View all payments for a single employee
- Sign in to Gusto.
- Click the People tab and select Team members.
- Click the employee's name.
- In the "Payments" box on the right side, click the dropdown and scroll to the bottom and select 202X paystubs.
View or skip archived payrolls—unprocessed payrolls over 90 days old
- Sign in to Gusto.
- Click the Pay section and select Pay history.
- Scroll to the "Archived Payroll” section.
- Check the box next to the payrolls you want to skip.
- Use the "Actions" column to skip the selected payrolls.
View payrolls prior to Gusto
If you onboarded to Gusto mid-year and gave us your prior payroll information, you can find this in Gusto by:
- Sign in to Gusto.
- Go to the Reports section.
- Search or find the "Payrolls prior to Gusto" report—If you do not see this, we do not have previous payroll information from you. Reach out to your last payroll provider to get this information.
View contractor payments - Sign in to Gusto.
- Click the Pay section and select Pay history.
- Toggle to the Contractor payment history tab.
- Under the "Actions" column, click View Details.
You can view the payment amount and payment date on this summary page. You can also see which bank account this payment was processed from under the "Paid From" section next to the payment amount.
To view all payments for a single contractor, follow the steps below.
- Sign in to Gusto.
- Click the People tab and select Team members.
- Click the contractor's name.
- Click View All Payments on the right side in the "Payments" box.
Payroll activity log - Sign in to Gusto.
- Click the Pay section and select Pay history.
- Click View activity log in the upper-right corner of the page.
On this page, you can review all past events related to running payroll. In the “Category” column, click the link to quickly access the page where the change occurred.
In the "Changed by" column, there are three types of value to indicate who performed the action:
- An individual affiliated to your organization
- An automated process in the Gusto system
- Someone from the Gusto Support team
These are the actions recorded in the "Activity" column:
- Created payroll
- Updated payroll
- Includes when any values are edited (bonus amount, hours, etc.)
- Submitted payroll
- Including payrolls on Autopilot
- Skipped payroll
- Reversed payroll
- Canceled payroll
- Assigned permissions
- Changed ACH speed
- Turned payroll approvals on/off
- Turned autopilot on/off
- Payroll check date change
- Pay schedule update
- Payroll approval status update (rejected, requested, or canceled)
- Initiated debit
- Initiated credit