Do employers typically ask to see your most current pay stub?

AlXaNgEl

The company that DH interviewed with last week called back asking him to fax them his most recent pay stub.  Is this common practice?

 

hookersbabe

not that i have seen.

vicki21

Why would they need it?  If they want to verify his salary (or employment) they should do a background check.

AmyRob04

Rob has been asked for his W2 a few times - he's in sales, I don't know if that makes a difference. He generally does a lot of negotiating on his packages, base vs commission, commission percentages, etc. The job he's in now, he also had to show his comp contract.

 I start a new job on Monday and while they didn't ask for away stub I know they did say they would verify my salary with my previous employer. Not sure if they did or not but I told the truth so it was out of my mind pretty quickly.

turtle520

Well, I can say that most times we won't provide salary info when someone calls to verify employment on a past employee.

bbzangel70j

my company asks for w2s for the past 2 years for any position.

personally, i dont understand the practice unless like amyrob said its for a sales position. but our cfo insists and so HR complies...

oct11bride03

I've never heard of that before. Amy's explanation for a sales job makes sense but anywhere else that just seems odd to me.

Then again, as part of my background check for my new job they got a copy of my driving record. I'll be working from home and nothing about my job has anything to do with driving, so why was this necessary. On the flip side, my references weren't contacted at all. 

KellMichelle

When I worked in recruiting and an employee marked on their application that we could not contact their previous employer, we would sometimes ask for proof and a W2 or recent paystub would be proof. Either that or there was a discrepancy with the background check.

N&V0514

Are they doing a background check?  My company was just acquired and during my background check they asked for paystubs from a previous job.

JoJo79

I've had to provide personnel documents before, but I work for the gov't so not sure if that makes any difference.  Also, I was going from one pay system to another.  And when applying for other federal jobs, I've had to provide similar info to prove my time-in-grade

vicki21

turtle520:

Well, I can say that most times we won't provide salary info when someone calls to verify employment on a past employee.

We don't, either... I verify title and dates, that's all.

Mrs.JBW

When I went from one government job to another, the max increase they could grant was $10K.  So they confirmed my current salary. 

Jerseyjessie

My last 2 jobs did and they both did background checks as well.