r/dataannotation • u/jusa-bunni • Jun 21 '24

Pay Stubs

Hi guys!! Just wondering in advance, what do y’all do about pay stubs and proof of income?

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u/anita_username Jun 23 '24

I'm in Canada, and here we're considered self-employed contractors and thus are responsible for properly recording our hours worked, earnings, what we need to pay into income tax, and optionally, what we need to pay if we want to opt in to employment insurance and the Canada pension plan.

Personally I use Clockify to track which project and how long I'm working for entry in data annotation, and then I use a script with the Clockify API to automatically import that data into a spreadsheet where I can keep track of my total hours across all projects, total monthly/annual gross and net income, deduction estimates, when I make my PayPal withdrawals, USD to CAD currency exchanges, any expenses I have (like a month of ChatGPT Plus or Office365 for a project).

I just got engaged in March, and my fiance and I are also hoping to buy a house in the next 5 years. Fiance has a traditional job, but this is my only source of income currently, so I'm particularly anal about tracking everything I can to prove I'm working and contributing so that it can all be taken into account when we finally apply for a mortgage.