Help, I've lied about my salary to my potential employers and now they're asking for my payslips.

Exodi

stator wrote: »

Just provide your last three payslips and say nothing about it.

It's unlikely they will try and work out what your comission was over the course of a year from 3 months payslip.

Payslips show "Pay To Date" and "Tax To Date" and unfortunately for the OP, as we approach the end of the tax year, it would be exceedingly obvious what the OP earned over the course of the year as it would plainly say on their March Payslip.

Not much advise for the OP, I'd probably submit them without saying anything in the hope they are just a checkbox exercise for HR.

stripeyfox

In my experience, exaggerating your pay is part and parcel of the interview process and an extra negotiating tool!

But no employer ever asked me to prove it before!

shortcrust

stripeyfox wrote: »

In my experience, exaggerating your pay is part and parcel of the interview process and an extra negotiating tool!

But no employer ever asked me to prove it before!

I think the difference here is that they’re not really interested in checking the the OP’s salary and it isn’t the salary that the OP has exaggerated.

stripeyfox

shortcrust wrote: »

I think the difference here is that they’re not really interested in checking the the OP’s salary and it isn’t the salary that the OP has exaggerated.

Yeah I guess so. I suppose it is always a risky strategy. You can bluff but if they call it and ask you to back it up then you're exposed as somewhat dishonest.

confusedsalesgirl

Spoke to HR, I told her I didnt have this. She says it fine, I can produce later or produce some bank statements

ohreally

confusedsalesgirl wrote: »

Spoke to HR, I told her I didnt have this. She says it fine, I can produce later or produce some bank statements

This is only kicking the can down the road.

PasturesNew

If the figures you gave are verbally ... maybe they wrote down a wrong figure, you didn't say that. No. You said £31k but were on target to earn the higher sum....

TBagpuss

confusedsalesgirl wrote: »

Spoke to HR, I told her I didnt have this. She says it fine, I can produce later or produce some bank statements

Oh dear.
You do realise that they could chose to treat as gross misconduct andsack you, if they discover the lie further down the line?

At least if you give them the information now then you won't have it hngiong over you, and you are still (just) in a position where you can say "I must have misunderstoood the qustion, the figures I gave at interveiew were for my last full year, here's the proof"

Honestly, the longer it is befoe they find out, the less likely they are to belive that it was an oversight or miscommunication reather than a deliberate lie.

shortcrust

confusedsalesgirl wrote: »

Spoke to HR, I told her I didnt have this. She says it fine, I can produce later or produce some bank statements

Sorry to say, but I think that's bad news. It means they definitely want to confirm the pay received matches what you told them rather than payslips just being an HR admin tick box.

I'd come clean. Now. The longer you leave it the worse it's likely to be.

getmore4less

You currently have a conditional offer,

Do not resign or start till all conditions have been met.

They have 2 years to decide to just not employ you any more.

Not unknown for an employer to keep the odd "we know this about you" in the bag for later.


Have you established the targets needed to get you to decent commission levels in this new job?