About PayStub IQ Canada

We explain Canadian pay stubs and payroll documents — T4 and T4A slips, ROEs, TD1 forms, Quebec RL-1 slips and final pay statements — line by line, in plain English and in French for Quebec. We cover CPP and CPP2, QPP, EI, QPIP, federal and provincial income tax, taxable benefits, union dues, vacation pay and year-to-date totals across all 13 provinces and territories.

The goal is never to accuse an employer of a mistake. It is to help you understand what each line means, spot what is worth checking, and ask payroll the right question politely — most payroll surprises turn out to have an ordinary explanation.

PayStub IQ Canada is edited by Rocco Clayfield, Founder, Director & Editor-in-Chief, and is part of the same independent publishing family as PayslipIQ in the United Kingdom and the United States, which apply the same approach to UK payslips and US pay stubs. It is an independent educational service: we are not affiliated with the CRA, Revenu Québec, Service Canada or any employer or payroll provider.

Plain language over jargon. Explanations grounded in publicly available CRA, Revenu Québec and provincial employment-standards guidance. Privacy first: documents you upload are read in memory to produce your explanation and are not stored. Honest labelling: if you are ever shown an example rather than a reading of your own document, it says so on the report. And a hard limit we repeat everywhere: this is educational guidance, not legal, tax, accounting or payroll advice.

The full method — how documents are read, how confidence ratings are assigned, and how red flags are chosen and worded — is documented openly on our methodology page.

Questions, corrections or feedback: hello@paystubiq.com or the contact page. If you spot something inaccurate, we want to know — accuracy is the product.