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A payslip coaching tool for HR teams | Wealthbit

Understand Your Payslip
A free coaching tool.

A payslip nobody has ever had explained to them

Your team's payslip isn't trying to confuse anyone. It's just badly designed, and almost nobody in South Africa has had it explained to them line by line. That's not a training gap you're expected to close yourself. It's what this tool is for.

One line from a real payslip
Employer retirement contribution R2,140
What it generally means

Money your employer pays into your retirement fund.

What it means for you

Shows up as income, then gets taken straight back off again.

What it actually does

This is a free coaching tool. Each person on your team gets their own copy, types in the numbers from their own payslip, and gets two things back for every line: what it generally means, and what it specifically means for them.

Two worked examples show it working before anyone types a single number in. Change a figure and watch the tax move.

Nothing they type ever leaves their own copy of the file.

The part payroll usually has to explain one person at a time

Eleven of the questions people ask most often, answered with their own figures, not general ones. Each one comes with a specific line to ask payroll or HR, if the answer raises a real question. Most of the time, it won't need to.

Why was my bonus taxed so hard? Why does a colleague on my salary pay different tax?

Before a decision, not after

Five common "what if" moments, modelled on their own numbers before they happen. Every one separates the number from the trade-off behind it.

A raise A bonus Putting more into retirement Adding someone to medical aid Restructuring part of salary into a travel allowance

A R3,000 raise sounds like R3,000. It's rarely close to that once tax and UIF take their share, and this tool shows exactly how much of it actually lands.

If this is a bigger signal

One confusing payslip, or something wider?

If your team's using this because pay advance requests are climbing, or people are leaving over what looks like a small salary gap, that's usually a bigger signal than one confusing payslip.

If pay advance requests are climbing

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Financial Stress Survey Tool

Run it across your team to see the scale of it.

Data drawn from Wealthbit's own Financial Stress Report.

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Still working out the broader picture

2026 Employee Benefits Self-Assessment

The next honest place to look.

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Get your team's copy

Free, no sign-up beyond this, nothing tracked once it's in their hands.