Payroll Facts
This document shows an associate’s gross pay, deductions, taxes, and net pay for a specific pay period.
What is a pay statement or paystub?
Brightview Senior Living opened its first community in this year.
What is 1999?
This four-letter acronym stands for Human Resources Information System.
What is HRIS?
This acronym means “Year to Date” and represents totals accumulated from the beginning of the calendar year.
What is YTD?
Issued in January 1940, the first monthly Social Security retirement check went to this Vermont resident.
Who was Ida May Fuller?
*Her first monthly retirement payment was $22.54.
This is the amount an associate receives after taxes, deductions, and other withholdings are subtracted from gross pay.
What is Net pay?
Brightview’s senior living communities operate along this coast of the United States.
What is the East Coast?
This HRIS feature allows associates to view pay statements, update certain personal information, and complete tasks without asking HR to enter the information for them.
What is employee self-service?
This acronym identifies the federal agency responsible for administering and enforcing federal tax laws.
What is the IRS?
This symbol was selected by Ray Tomlinson to separate a username from the host computer in an email address.
What is the @ symbol?
Associates use this federal form to tell their employer how much federal income tax to withhold from their pay.
What is Form W-4?
*The amount withheld generally depends on the associate’s earnings and the information provided on Form W-4.
Brightview operates communities in this number of states.
What are eight states?
In an HRIS, this process moves information between two systems so that the same data does not have to be entered twice.
What is an integration or interface?
This acronym stands for the Federal Insurance Contributions Act.
What is FICA?
Released for the Apple II in 1979, this program is widely recognized as the first spreadsheet program for personal computers.
What is VisiCalc?
These two federal programs are funded through FICA payroll taxes.
What are Social Security and Medicare?
Spiritual, Physical, Intellectual, Cultural, and Emotional are the five elements represented by this Brightview wellness acronym.
What is SPICE?
This term describes a record of who changed HRIS data, what was changed, and when the change occurred.
What is an audit trail?
This acronym represents the electronic banking network commonly used to send direct-deposit payments.
What is ACH, or Automated Clearing House?
The world’s first website was created at this European scientific research organization.
What is CERN?
This term describes income received before taxes, benefits, garnishments, and other deductions are taken out.
What is Gross Pay?
This specialized Brightview neighborhood supports people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
What is Wellspring Village™?
This security practice gives users only the system access necessary to perform their assigned responsibilities.
What is role-based access or least privilege access?
This acronym refers to the accounting record where payroll and labor expenses are distributed to the appropriate accounts, departments, or communities.
What is GL, or General Ledger?
In 1971, this computer engineer sent the first network email and helped establish the email-address format still used today.
Who was Ray Tomlinson?