Pay sheet

The page that shows a driver what they were paid for the week, load by load and line by line.

Also called: Pay statement, Driver settlement, Pay stub.

A good pay sheet lists each load with its number and miles, the per-mile rate, each extra with what it was for, the week’s bonus and paid-back receipts, any cash advance taken off, and the net. The driver can check it against their own notes, and so can the owner a year later.

Some carriers call the statement they send the owner a driver settlement, which muddles two different papers. The settlement is what the carrier paid the owner; the pay sheet is what the owner paid the driver.

There is a free printable pay sheet template and a calculator that fills one in among the tools on this site.

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• Settlement — The carrier’s statement of what it owes the owner-operator for a load, and the check that pays it.
• Cash advance — Money handed to a driver before payday, taken off their next pay.
• Reimbursement — Paying a driver back for something they bought for the load out of their own pocket — a toll, a wash, cash fuel.

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Made with the free pay sheet at loadtally.app/tools/glossary/pay-sheet — LoadTally, loads, settlements and driver pay for owner-operators.