# Payroll summary

**For:** Manager | Admin
**You'll need:** Permission to view reports (your manager will know).

The payroll summary shows per-employee pay totals for a bi-weekly cycle — regular hours, overtime tiers, premiums, paid and unpaid absence, time-comp, and gross pay. The CSV export is the file your payroll vendor expects.

## Open the report

1. In the left sidebar, click **'Reports'**.
2. On the Reports landing page, click the **'Payroll summary'** card.

The report opens to the bi-weekly cycle that contains today, computed from your company's payroll anchor date.

## Filter the data

The bi-weekly cycle is the primary filter; everything else narrows the rows inside it.

1. Use the quickfilter chips at the top to switch cycle: **'This bi-weekly'** (the default) or **'Last bi-weekly'**.
2. (Optional) Open the **'Location'** dropdown and pick one or more locations.
3. (Optional) Open the **'Person'** dropdown and pick one or more people.
4. (Optional) Open the **'Status'** dropdown and pick one or more workflow statuses.
5. Click **'Apply filters'**.

To start over, click **'Clear'**.

```{tip}
The bi-weekly boundaries are computed from `payroll_anchor_date` in your company settings. If the cycles don't line up with what your payroll vendor expects, ask your admin to update the anchor date.
```

## Export

See {doc}`exports` for CSV, XLSX, and PDF details.

The payroll CSV is **semicolon-delimited** and follows the payroll-vendor schema — `external_id`, hours fields, pay-period boundaries, and the multipliers that explain each row. When you import the file, choose semicolon as the separator.

## Verify it worked

The cycle in the header (start date – end date) matches the chip you picked. Each row is one employee. **'Gross pay'** equals regular plus overtime plus premiums plus paid absence; the breakdown columns add up to that total.

## Related

- {doc}`payroll-timesheet`
- {doc}`labor-cost`
- {doc}`/set-up-your-company/people/hourly-rate-resolution`
- {doc}`exports`