Provincial and territorial rules
Every Canadian jurisdiction requires employers to give workers a written statement of earnings — Ontario's ESA calls it a "pay statement", Alberta's Employment Standards Code calls it an "earnings statement", Québec calls it a "bulletin de paie". The line items are the same across the country.
- Pay period covered and hours worked
- Wage rate and gross earnings by type (regular, overtime, stat holiday, vacation pay)
- Federal and provincial tax withheld
- CPP (or QPP in Québec), EI, and QPIP where applicable
- Net pay and cumulative YTD columns
Québec pay stubs (bulletin de paie)
For Québec employees the stub swaps CPP for the Québec Pension Plan (QPP, 6.4%) and adds the Québec Parental Insurance Plan (QPIP, 0.494%). Provincial tax also runs through Revenu Québec, not the CRA. StubGenPro applies the correct set automatically when you select Québec as the province.
When Canadians need a pay stub
Bank mortgage brokers, TD/RBC/Scotia auto-loan officers, condo boards, permanent-residence applications, and the CRA itself all ask for recent pay stubs. Self-employed operators pulling a T4 salary from their own corporation use StubGenPro to keep clean records for year-end filings.