Paychecks are sent to the bank once a month on the 15th of every month (or the last business day before it if the 15th falls on the weekend). You may see it deposited in the bank account prior to that date (and you will see an email come from Reliant saying it was deposited many days before the 15th), but the funds are not typically released until the 15th although some banks do allow you to access the funds early once it appears in your account. Every bank is different on the timing. Currently, backpay is paid on a separate paycheck that comes in an email a few days after the original paycheck email, but both are still paid on the 15th. Toolbox balances will be updated by the end of the day on the pay date for each month.
How to View
You will receive an email with your paystub sent to your Reliant email. The paystub will be sent a few days before the funds are actually available at the bank.
Understanding Your Pay Stub
A pay stub shows all the amounts used to calculate how much is deposited into your bank account on payday. See below for a guide to the types of expenses used. This list is not exhaustive.
Your pay stub may have the following listed:
| Employee Name - Check Date - Check Number | |
| Earnings | Gross to Net Pay |
Short Check vs. Backpay The year-to-date total for short check on your paystub is the amount that you have accumulated this year in falling short on receiving total pay (the total amount shorted for the year). It is not your current backpay balance. The year-to-date short check amount only fluctuates when you accumulate additional shorts it does not change as backpay is paid. On a paystub, backpay is the amount being paid out because funds became available to pay back some or all of the accumulated short check amount. To check your backpay balance, to see how much backpay you still have available to receive once funds become available, see your MTD reporting dashboard on Toolbox. |
Advance Repayments are the amount being repaid for the Advance received. In most cases, it is the full amount but may sometimes be a prorated amount divided over several months. What is Reimbursement Draw? This will equal the value of something you received that was taxable but was not given to you in the form of a payment on your paycheck. For example, a gift card for reaching 20-year tenure, international counseling, etc. This is listed in this section of the paystub because it is an expense, but it is not included in the Gross Pay amount. |
Other Information | Net Pay Distribution |
What is Employment Insurance? A small percentage of every employee’s paycheck goes into a fund that covers a variety of employer liability insurance policies Reliant has for premiums around topics such as sexual harassment, workers compensation, pastoral abuse, etc. Learn about your Reliant employment benefits here. Employment Insurance is a required fee charged to the MTD account for every employee, regardless of the number of hours they are working. Employment Insurance begins on the first paycheck. |
All payments for the employee follow the net pay distribution assigned. If the employee has chosen on their net pay distribution for the first xx of dollars to go to savings and then the rest to checking, it will follow those same rules for all payments including reimbursements. |
Reliant Address At the bottom of the paystub are the words VOID VOID VOID. This represents that the check was not printed (the printing was voided- did not occur), and it was deposited electronically instead. It's the way the system tells itself it was a direct deposit and not a printed check. Your address is listed as a way to verify that we have the correct address on file. If your address is incorrect, please refer to these pages based on your ministry assignment location: | |
| Reimbursements |
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Non-taxable reimbursements will be sent on a separate pay stub. You will see it listed as REIMBURSEMENT on the pay stub and the amount for the reimbursement being received at that time will be in the "this check" column on the right-hand side of the pay stub. Remember, ERBs (expense recovery bonuses-taxable reimbursements) are considered taxable compensation so they will appear on your normal paycheck (shown above) and will not appear on a separate reimbursement pay stub.
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Available funds are no longer showing on the paystub. This was a source of confusion when it was on the paystub as the system uses true accounting (a negative amount was shown as a positive) and that could not be changed on the paystub. It also showed the balance before accruals for medical, etc. were included so it did not accurately reflect the exact balance. You can find the account balance on the dashboard in Toolbox. Toolbox will show the remaining balance after payroll. It does not show real-time balances or even the exact balance at the time of payroll calculation. Because Toolbox is updated monthly there could potentially be corrections that were posted which may change the balance at the next monthly update. If you want to know the exact balance used at the time of payroll calculation, please reach out to payroll@reliant.org.
As a reminder, available funds for each paycheck are calculated using funds that have come in by the end of the previous month. It does not include any funds that have been received at the beginning of the month that your payment for payroll is received as your paycheck is for hours worked/funds received from the previous month.
