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

Ja7188

Just give them the pay slips. For all they know you had a storming run of sales in the months prior to those pay slips and then had a bit of a dry run, then had a few more good months but they pay commission two or three months behind so your pay slips don't reflect it.

As per the original post, the OP has told their potential new employer that the YTD figure on their payslip is £42k, which it isn't - so this approach won't work.

Using the above as an excuse would be a bit of a stretch, but that scenario does actually happen in sales. One person I worked with many years ago did naff all sales wise for the first ten months then, when on his last legs with the company because of this, brought a new deal in worth 150% of their target and got a nice £60k bonus in one lump sum two months later.

Yep, this does happen in some sales roles - but if I was interviewing someone with this pattern of achievement, I'd want to understand a bit more about the reasons behind it.