{"id":5878,"date":"2026-09-11T10:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.schubwerk.eu\/faq\/how-to-read-my-german-employer-payroll-report\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T12:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:52:16","slug":"how-to-read-my-german-employer-payroll-report","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/www.consultinghouse.eu\/de\/faq\/how-to-read-my-german-employer-payroll-report\/","title":{"rendered":"How to read my German employer payroll report?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">German Payroll Journal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A wage journal contains detailed, selected payroll data for several employees that were created in a specific period or a selected payroll period.<br><br>It is used to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Uncover errors that occur in the payroll run,<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sum up accounting data of an organizational unit,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Track data development over multiple billing periods and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>to have an additional, detailed control medium for revisions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The payroll journal can also be used as a release document for the final payroll (e.g. by an organizational unit) vis-\u00e0-vis the payroll office \/ payroll \/ tax consultant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.consultinghouse.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Consultinghoue-How-to-read-my-German-payroll-reports-scaled.png\" alt=\"Consultinghoue-How-to-read-my-German-payroll-reports\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.consultinghouse.eu\/de\/dienstleistungen\/arbeitgeberleistungen\/lohn-und-gehaltsabrechnung\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.consultinghouse.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/CTA20Payroll20Solutions.png\" alt=\"CTA Payroll Solutions\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article describes how employers in German can read the monthly company payroll report<\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","faq_category":[17],"class_list":["post-5878","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry","faq_category-payroll-in-germany"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to read my German employer payroll report? 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