Wyoming: Pay Stub Requirements
The short answer
Yes, except for agricultural operations. At each wage payment, the employer must furnish a detachable written statement with a check, draft, or voucher—or an attached slip with another payment method—that itemizes every deduction. A violation is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a $750 fine, up to six months in county jail, or both.
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This is the general rule in Wyoming. Ezel applies current Wyoming law to your specific facts and answers with citations to the statutes.
| Governing law and coverage | W.S. § 27-4-101(b) applies to every employer, but agricultural operations are exempt from the section (§ 27-4-101(c)) |
|---|---|
| Must provide a statement and when | At each wage payment, furnish a detachable written statement with the check, draft, or voucher; if payroll is paid another way, attach an itemized slip (§ 27-4-101(b)) |
| Pay period, employer, and employee identification | No pay-period dates, payment date, employer name/address/phone, employee name/ID, FEIN, or SSN field stated |
| Gross earnings, hours, rates, and pay basis | No gross pay, hours, regular/overtime rate, salary, commission, piece-rate unit, or other earnings-basis field stated |
| Deductions, net pay, allowances, and other required items | Must itemize all deductions/lawful offsets. No express net pay, additions, allowances, tips, leave balance, or employer-contribution field stated (§ 27-4-101(b); Labor Standards ch. 1, § 6(r)) |
| Electronic delivery, consent, printing, and storage | Law requires a written detachable statement or attached slip; no express electronic-delivery authorization, consent, opt-out, printing, saving, paper-copy, portal-access, or continuing-access rule stated |
| Employee copy access and employer retention | Current statement is due at each payment. Statement provisions state no historical employee inspection/copy process, response deadline, copy fee, or stub-retention period |
| Enforcement, damages, penalties, and deadlines | Violation is a misdemeanor punishable by up to $750, up to 6 months in county jail, or both (§ 27-4-103). No statement-specific employee damages, per-statement civil penalty, cure, fees, or limitations period stated |
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Requirements one by one
A written deduction statement is due with every payment
W.S. § 27-4-101(b) requires the employer, “at the time of each payment of
wages,” to furnish a detachable part of the check, draft, or voucher containing
an itemized written statement of all deductions. If the employer pays another
way, the statute requires an itemized slip attached to the payment.
Labor Standards chapter 1, § 6(r) reinforces the same field rule: all lawful
offsets listed in the chapter must be itemized on the statement or detachable
stub. The cited provisions do not add pay-period dates, party identifiers,
gross or net pay, hours, rates, pay basis, tips, leave balances, or employer
contributions.
The statute supplies a criminal penalty
W.S. § 27-4-103 makes a violation of the act a misdemeanor punishable by a fine
of up to $750, imprisonment in the county jail for up to six months, or both.
It states no separate employee damages amount, per-statement civil penalty,
attorney-fee award, cure period, or private limitations period.
The Labor Standards rule defines a “claim” under W.S. § 27-4-101 as a complaint
that unpaid wages are due. That language should not be used to promise an
unpaid-wage recovery when the employee received all wages and proves only a
missing or incomplete statement.
What trips people up
The Wyoming field list is narrow. It requires all deductions to be itemized,
but it does not expressly require the hours, rates, gross earnings, or net pay
commonly printed by payroll systems.
The statute also specifies a written detachable statement or attached slip. It
does not state that an electronic portal is enough or supply consent, opt-out,
printing, saving, paper-copy, or continuing-access conditions.
Agricultural operations are expressly exempt under W.S. § 27-4-101(c).
Common questions
Must the statement show gross and net pay?
No such fields appear in the cited minimum list. The statement must itemize all
deductions.
Can the employer provide only an online pay stub?
The cited statute requires a written detachable statement or a slip attached
to the payment and does not expressly authorize an electronic-only substitute.
Can a former employee demand old stubs?
The cited statement provisions do not state a historical inspection or copy
process, response deadline, copy charge, or stub-retention period.
Does the pay-stub rule cover agricultural operations?
No. W.S. § 27-4-101(c) expressly exempts agricultural operations.
Statutes and sources
- W.S. §§ 27-4-101(b)-(c) and 27-4-103. Each-payment written statement,
agricultural exemption, and misdemeanor penalty. Official Title 27
PDF (accessed July 14,
2026). - Wyoming Labor Standards, chapter 1, §§ 3(a) and 6(r). Itemization of
lawful offsets and the unpaid-wage basis of a Labor Standards claim. Official
final rule PDF (accessed
July 14, 2026).
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