Payroll, benefits, HR and more.
- Payroll
- Benefits
- Team Management
- Accounting & Integrations
- Employees & Contractors
- Account Setup & Maintenance
- State Registration & Compliance

Types of reports you can download
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Reporting is based on the check date rather than the pay period and most reports can be downloaded as a PDF or CSV.
Types of reports
Report Name | Description | Additional Information |
Payroll Journal | This report shows detailed payroll information for each pay period and employee—perfect for accountants. |
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Benefits Report | This report shows employee deduction amounts and company contribution amounts for each benefit. |
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Agency Payments |
This report shows all federal, state, and local tax deposits as well as any garnishment payments Gusto has made on behalf of your company. |
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Bank Transactions | This report shows all payroll-related bank transactions between Gusto and your company's bank account. |
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Year-to-Date Report | This report shows total earnings, tax withholdings, and net pay for each employee. |
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Paystubs | View your paystubs history |
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Employee Summary |
This report shows information about your employees that include personal details, employment dates, compensation, federal withholding allowances, and state withholding allowances. |
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Contractor Payments | This report shows the payment method, date of payment, hours worked, additional earnings, and personal notes on each contractor payment. |
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Contractor Information | This report shows information about your contractors that include personal details and their wage type. |
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Time off Balances |
This report shows your employees’ accruals, hours used, and balances for each policy. |
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Time off Requests |
This report shows your employees’ department, statuses of time off requests, policy type, request creation date, time off requested, notes from the request, and total hours. |
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Time tracking hours |
View your employee’s hours by pay period or select a custom date range |
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Payroll data export | This reports allows you to download an excel workbook with raw data for all of your payrolls (by year). This is the most comprehensive view of your payroll history. |
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Workforce Costing |
Workforce costing reports—also known as labor costing reports—are used to help you understand your labor costs.
You can run workforce costing reports by project (Complete and Concierge customers only), job, or department. |
Set up projects, jobs, and departments first. Then run a payroll journal report and group the data by job, projects, and/or departments to see the costs of each.
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Payrolls Prior to Gusto | This report shows all payrolls you added to the account before joining Gusto. This includes earnings, deductions, employee taxes, and employer taxes for each employee. |
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Taxes Prior to Gusto |
This report shows any tax liabilities you elected for Gusto to debit and pay during onboarding. |
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Custom reports
Report Name | Description | Additional Information |
Payroll journal builder |
Build a custom payroll report using details about your employee’ past earnings, deductions, and taxes |
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Employee report builder |
Build a custom report using details about your employee’s personal and compensation information |
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Employment status |
Employment status is not an official report we support, but you can use the Employee report builder (listed above) and add Employment status as a column option.
Employment status options will differ between customers with Gusto-managed benefits and customers with third-party benefits. |
Please note: if you use custom fields to label employment status, you're responsible for ensuring those definitions are accurate for any other reporting purposes. |
You may or may not see the reports below
Report Name | Description | Additional Information |
Tax Deferrals |
Review taxes you've deferred. This report will only appear if:
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Tax Credits |
Review tax credits you've used. This report will only appear if:
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Federal R&D tax credit | View all of your federal R&D tax credit claims. |
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Custom fields | See the custom information you have collected about your employees |
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