Lettuce

Paystub comparison

Left: classic payroll PDF. Right: Lettuce direction - clarity for solopreneur owners, not payroll admins.

Original (ADP-style)

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Download old-paystub.pdf
Redesigned (Lettuce direction)
Pay summary

Product by Mark

Mark Rose

XXX-XX-7458

429 Coates Dr

Aptos, CA 95003

Lettuce PEO 1, LLC

Company

1870 The Exchange SE

Ste 220 #84232

Atlanta, GA 30339

6502753365

Net pay

$8,652

Pay date
May 15, 2026
Pay period
Apr 16 - May 15, 2026
Gross pay$16,259
Taxes withheld$7,607

Compensation

Item This period YTD
Salary $14,867 $14,889
Health insurance benefit 2% shareholder benefit $1,392 $2,089
Total gross pay $16,259 $16,978

Taxes withheld

Federal taxes

  • Federal income tax$4,100
  • Social Security$1,007
  • Medicare$235

State taxes

  • CA state tax$2,100
  • CA SDI$165
Total taxes withheld $7,607

Year-to-date snapshot

Gross pay
$16,978
Net pay
$8,312
Total taxes (YTD)
$7,890

What changed, what is better, what we did

Side-by-side read: classic export on the left, owner-first pay summary on the right. Below is the intent in plain language.

Key differences

  • Visual hierarchy - Old: spreadsheet density and weak focal point. New: net pay is the hero, then context chips.
  • Earnings - Old: rate, hours, YTD hours, duplicate totals. New: three compensation lines (salary, health benefit, gross) with Current and YTD only.
  • Language - Old: long IRS-style labels up front. New: people-first labels with tax terminology tucked into muted helper text.
  • Taxes - Old: flat accounting list. New: Federal vs State groups plus a single total taxes line.
  • Noise - Old: many $0.00 rows. New: only sections and lines that have values this period.
  • Who this is for - Old: enterprise/legal weight. New: employee (name, masked ID, address) and PEO (company name, mailing address, phone) in a compact two-column block, not the emotional center.

Why it feels better

  • Built for solopreneurs - Matches how owners think: take-home first, then gross, taxes, and benefits.
  • Confidence - Room for short explainers where they help without turning the page into a form.
  • Modern product craft - Cards, breathing room, restrained color, one Lettuce accent - closer to Mercury / Ramp energy than a payroll export.
  • Less cognitive load - Fewer columns, whole dollars on key lines, no fake precision on hours.
  • Room for brand - Lettuce plus a personal mark signals this is founder-oriented, not white-label HR paper.

What we did in this prototype

  • Embedded your uploaded PDF as the original column.
  • Rebuilt the right column in HTML from your written direction: hero net pay, pay date/period, and chips.
  • Implemented the simplified compensation table, grouped taxes with a total, and employee + PEO address blocks from your reference.
  • Added a YTD snapshot card at the bottom of the redesigned stub.
  • Applied white / charcoal / one green accent using shared palette values.
  • Copied in your Product by Mark logo (product-by-mark-logo.png) in a full-width strip above a shared divider, then matched employee and PEO columns.