Looking up your paystub on ADP is freaky
May 7, 2008At my previous two jobs they had internal Web-based payroll systems where you could look up and print out paystubs if you needed them (i.e., when you are applying for a mortgage they usually ask for your most recent two or three paystubs to verify salary). My new employer is a believer in out-sourcing wherever possible, and that includes this paystub feature.
It’s outsourced to the very company that prints out our paychecks, ADP. That makes sense, they already have your payroll data so why not handle this stuff rather than risk shipping the data to some third-party vendor?
Turns out that when you register for ADP’s Web site, they can display the last three years’ worth of paystubs from their database. Even if those paystubs were from a different employer. Which is a little freaky because when I first signed in they were showing paystubs from 2005, 2006, and 2008. Well the 2008 ones are from my new employer, but the 2005 and 2006 are from when I worked at CNET.
It was a weird to be able to browse my old paystubs from my previous employer. But it’s also kinda cool, I bet for some people ADP has their entire salary history stored in its database. Because ADP handles a very large percent of all payroll in the US.