# Gross pay

> Gross pay — What an employee earned for the pay period before anything is withheld — salary, or hours times rate, plus overtime, bonuses and commissions. Payroll expense in the books is the gross, not what reached the bank.

Source: https://lopifi.com/glossary/gross-pay
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**What is gross pay?** In accounting, gross pay means what an employee earned for the pay period before anything is withheld — salary, or hours times rate, plus overtime, bonuses and commissions. Payroll expense in the books is the gross, not what reached the bank.

## Also known as

- Gross wages

## Words this system refuses for it

- net pay
- take-home pay

- **Category:** Payroll
- **Specified in:** [Lexicon](https://lopifi.com/md/docs/domain/11-lexicon)
- **Related:** expense, period