Payroll 101
This is the amount an employee earns before taxes and deductions are taken out.
What is gross pay?
This federal form is used to verify a new employee's identity and authorization to work in the United States.
What is Form I-9?
This sponge has lived in a pineapple under the sea since 1999.
Who is Spongebob Squarepants?
Hired as a sales person and eventually moving into the Sales Director role, this person was Checkwriters' first Executive Vice President.
Who is Pete(r) Whelan?
This year-end tax form reports an employee's wages and taxes withheld.
What is a W-2?
This federal agency enforces laws prohibiting workplace discrimination based on protected characteristics.
What is EEOC?
In 1997, audiences debated whether there was enough room for both Jack and Rose on this floating object.
What is a door?
2026 marks this anniversary year for Checkwriters.
What is 37?
Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes are collectively known by this four-letter acronym.
What is FICA?
This federal law generally provides eligible employees of covered employers up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave for qualifying reasons.
What is FMLA?
In The Office, employees of this fictional paper company worked under Michael Scott.
What is Dunder Mifflin?
Before payroll and HR, Round Hill offered a very different kind of service: this 19th-century treatment that attempted to cure ailments using water.
What is hydropathy?
Employees generally have this percentage of their taxable wages withheld for Social Security tax, with employers contributing an equal amount.
What is 6.2%
This continuation coverage law may allow employees and certain family members to temporarily remain on an employer-sponsored health plan after certain qualifying events.
What is COBRA?
This British singer's albums include 19, 21, 25, and 30.
Who is Adele?
Before serving as U.S. Secretary of the Navy and helping establish the Naval Academy, this historian ran a school on Round Hill.
Who is George Bancroft?
This was the first minimum wage amount established by the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938.
What is 25 cents?
These state-run programs provide temporary income to eligible workers who have lost employment.
What is Unemployment Insurance?
In 2024, this tiny baby pygmy hippo from Thailand became an international internet celebrity.
Who is Moo Deng?
In 1823, the property that would eventually become Checkwriters HQ became home to this experimental boys' school.
What is Round Hill School?