Gusto will assign each employee a unique identifier called the "Gusto employee ID." This is a 6-character alphanumeric ID (e.g. 5G9934) that gets securely generated and randomly assigned. This is to enable a better distinction of employees for accurate payments and record keeping.
The Gusto employee ID can be found in a few places in your account—under the "Personal" tab of an employee’s profile, and as an optional field in the CSV template on step 1 while running payroll. Learn more about how CSV uploads work here.
At this time, Gusto employee IDs are not customizable and cannot be disabled.
Find an employee’s Gusto ID
- Head to the People section and select Team Members.
- Select the name of an employee.
- Navigate to the Personal tab.
- Under the "Basics" section, you'll find their Gusto employee ID.
Upload a CSV with "Gusto employee ID" while running payroll
- Click the Payroll sections and select Run payroll.
- Select the payroll you’d like to run.
- On step 1, select Upload CSV, then click Download CSV template to use the updated template.
- In your downloaded template, you'll find that each employee has a Gusto employee ID pre-populated (this is currently an optional field).
- Edit your payroll data on the CSV, but do not make changes to the Gusto employee ID column.
- Click Select File and upload your CSV.
- Continue processing payroll as normal.