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View employee or contractor pay history (for admins)

Updated 09/09/2025 12:01:26 PM by brynn.flaig@gusto.com
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Summary

This article teaches admins how to view the payrolls or payments their company has processed through Gusto.

Content

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:  

  1. Sign in to Gusto.
  2. Go to the Pay section.
  3. At the top right of the page, click View pay history.
  4. Make sure you're on the Payrolls tab.
  5. 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

  1. Sign in to Gusto.
  2. Click the People section.  
  3. Click the employee's name. 
  4. From the Pay tab, scroll to the "Recent paystubs" section. 
  5. Click View all to view all paystubs, or click the three-dot action menu to view a specific paystub from a single payroll. 

View or skip archived payrolls—unprocessed payrolls over 90 days old

  1. Sign in to Gusto.
  2. Go to the Pay section.
  3. At the top right of the page, click View pay history.
  4. Scroll to the "Archived Payroll” section.
  5. Check the box next to the payrolls you want to skip.
  6. 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:

  1. Sign in to Gusto.
  2. Click the Reports section.
  3. 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
  1. Sign in to Gusto.
  2. Go to the Pay section.
  3. At the top right of the page, click View pay history.
  4. Click the US contractors tab.
  5. 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.

  1. Sign in to Gusto.
  2. Click the People section. 
  3. Click the contractor's name. 
  4. From the Pay tab, scroll to the "Recent contractor payments" section. 
  5. Click View all to view all payments, or click the three-dot action menu to view a specific payment.
Payroll activity log
  1. Sign in to Gusto.
  2. Go to the Pay section.
  3. At the top right of the page, click View pay history.
  4. 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
  • Gusto system: An automated process in the Gusto system
  • Someone from the Gusto Care 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
Keywords: payroll history view payrolls view processed payrolls view pay history payments made submitted payrolls payments contractors

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Solution ID
102787011100000
Last Modified Date
09/09/2025 12:01:26 PM
Attributes
Gusto Attributes
  • Role: Employers; Accountants/Partners
  • Category: Payroll
  • Plan type: Core; Complete; Concierge
  • Who brokers my benefits?: A third party; Gusto
Taxonomy
  • Employers and admins > Payroll > Payroll history
Collections
  • Admins
  • External
  • Support Agent

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