Wageproof · Last updated: November 3, 2026 · Covers Wageproof 1.2.x and 1.3.0 as explained below.
Wageproof is made by Bogdan Tsiganiuk. Contact: bogdan.tsiganiyk@gmail.com. By using Wageproof you agree to these terms.
Version scope. The basic hours calculator, pay comparisons, exports, backups and weekly integrity record apply where available in your installed version. Schedule pay, final-paycheck tools, off-the-clock notes and photos, tipped-wage calculations, Year-End Pay Check and local reminders described here are additions in 1.3.0. They do not describe features or data collected by live 1.2.x installations. They apply only after you install 1.3.0 and use the relevant feature. Wageproof does not implement calendar access, iCloud sync or widgets in either version.
Language. In case of differences, the English text governs. En caso de diferencias, prevalece el texto en inglés.
The short version. Wageproof is a calculator and a notebook. It does arithmetic on the hours and answers you enter and keeps a record of them on your phone. Its numbers are estimates and can be wrong. It is not legal or tax advice. Check every result against your own pay records. The sections below say exactly what that means.
1. What Wageproof is, and what it is not
Wageproof is a calculator and a record-keeping tool. It works out an estimate of what hours are worth under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and, where you select one, the overtime rules of California, Alaska, Nevada or Colorado, and it compares that estimate to a paystub figure you type in yourself. It also works out some other estimates and dates from answers you enter, as described in the sections below.
It is not legal or tax advice, and it is not a paystub or a tax form. No attorney–client relationship is created by using it. Wageproof does arithmetic on the records and answers you enter. It cannot tell you whether you are owed money, whether you are correctly classified, or whether to take any action. A figure, a difference, a deadline or a countdown in the app is not a finding that money is owed, that a payment was late, that anyone broke a law, or that you are classified correctly. Where the app says a figure is “not an amount due” or that a difference “doesn’t say which one is right”, it means exactly that. Tax information in the app (for example tip-report dates or W-2 box 12 codes) is a general pointer to the IRS source it names, not tax advice. If something looks wrong, talk to a lawyer, your state labor agency, or a tax professional.
2. What it does not model
The app tells you this on its result screens. It is repeated here in full because it is the most important limit on the numbers it produces. Wageproof does not model:
tip pooling allocation
service charges
tip reporting
commissions
piece rates
collective bargaining agreements
exempt-status determination
taxes and withholding
states other than the ones it lists
A week that involves any of those will produce a figure that is incomplete. Check every result against your own pay records.
3. Accuracy: tables, summaries and conventions
Wage and hour law changes, and published rates change on schedules. Wageproof carries three tables: minimum wages, tipped wages, and final-paycheck deadlines. It also carries short summaries of the city and state schedule rules it supports.
Dates and checking. Each table has a date it was last edited. The app and its exports may call this the date the table was “assembled” or “last edited”. It is not the date every entry was checked. CSV and PDF pay reports print the minimum-wage table’s date together with how many rates have not been checked against their official source. A pay report that includes a tipped week prints the same for the tipped-wage table. The app names unchecked minimum-wage rates, and calculations and pay reports identify unchecked figures they actually used. Year-End reports are a separate document format. The tipped-wage and final-paycheck screens say how many entries in those tables have not been checked. Some entries were written from secondary sources or from memory, and the app labels them that way.
What an unchecked rate can change. An unchecked minimum-wage rate can change three numbers: California’s split-shift premium, Nevada’s daily overtime test, and, where Wageproof Pro is unlocked, the cash wage on a job that takes a tip credit.
Summaries. The rule summaries in the app are simplified. The official source linked from each rule controls.
Unclear sources. Where the sources do not settle a question, the app either shows that it cannot work out the amount, or uses a convention and says so on the result. Examples are the date a schedule premium is treated as earned, keeping schedule premiums outside the overtime regular rate, pricing a week on a tipped job at the full applicable minimum wage, and counting whole days where a law counts hours. These conventions are this app’s own choices, not quotations of any law.
We work to keep the rules right, but we do not warrant that any figure the app produces is correct, complete or current, and you are responsible for checking it before relying on it for anything.
4. Your answers
Many results depend on answers only you can give. These include:
whether a schedule rule covers your job, and whether you are paid by the hour and are non-exempt (able to earn overtime);
whether you keep your tips apart from a valid tip pool, whether a manager, supervisor or owner shares the pool, and whether you were told about a tip credit;
when a schedule was posted or changed, whether you asked for or agreed to a change, and whether an exception such as a shutdown applies;
your workday start and how your job counts a workweek around daylight saving time;
the end date, reason and notice you enter for a job that ended;
whether a year’s records are complete.
Wageproof saves these exactly as you give them, with the date you gave them. It does not check them with any employer, agency or other source, and it never fills them in for you. A blank answer is saved as blank or “not sure”, never as “no”. A blank shutdown answer means no reason was given; it does not mean none occurred. Every result that uses your answers is only as accurate as those answers, and you are responsible for them.
5. Schedule pay
For Seattle, New York City fast food, the New York hospitality and miscellaneous-industries wage orders and California reporting time, Wageproof can estimate extra schedule pay: premiums for schedule changes, short rest between shifts, long workdays (spread of hours) or split shifts, and reporting and call-in time. Every such amount applies only if your coverage and exception answers are true for the work.
“No schedule pay result” means nothing you recorded qualified. It is not a calculation of $0.
Not setting up a schedule rule does not mean no schedule law applies to you.
A posted shift or a schedule change you record is a record only. It never creates worked hours or pay.
Where the law is unclear, or a fact the calculation needs is missing, the app shows the amount as unknown instead of guessing. For example, the sources do not settle some cases where notice falls exactly on a cutoff, so the app leaves them open.
For New York City fast food, the app treats your agreement to a change or a short rest as not removing the flat premium, as the rules it carries state, and it records your consent answers for your own information. Two sources read the timing of consent differently, and the app does not choose between them.
Schedule amounts and the dates they are counted in follow the conventions in section 3. The date a premium is treated as earned is sometimes this app’s own choice, and the app says so on the result.
Saved schedule facts refer to the shift and coverage version recorded with them. A later edit does not rewrite that snapshot or its history. If a shift changes, the app may need you to check and save its facts again before it can calculate an amount. A known subtotal is not a complete pay comparison while required inputs or calculation questions remain open.
6. Final paycheck
The final-paycheck date is worked out from the end date and reason you enter and the deadline rule the app carries for the job’s state. It is not legal advice about your deadline. The app is never told whether or when you were paid, so a countdown is only the number of days between two dates.
Some states’ deadlines depend on facts the app does not record, for example the day your notice named. Where a law counts hours, the app uses whole days. Where a state counts business days, the app skips weekends but not public holidays, so a date can be a day or two early. The app notes this where it applies.
In California, the app uses four whole days of notice as the cutoff for its with-notice date. Labor Code §202 refers to at least 72 hours and leaving on the day the notice named; the app cannot check that second fact. If you gave at least 72 hours but entered three days, the real deadline may be earlier than the app shows.
Some states have no rule in the app, or only part of one, and some rules have not been checked against an official source. The app says so (see section 3).
The California Labor Code §203 figure is a potential maximum, calculated from the weeks you recorded in the calendar year the job ended, priced the way the app prices those weeks for you (a free user’s weeks are priced without the Pro-only state rules, so the figure can be lower). It is not a finding that waiting-time pay applies. That depends on whether pay was actually paid late and whether that was wilful, which the app cannot see.
7. Tipped jobs and the tip credit
Wageproof works out the week’s tip credit for a job you set up to take one. It uses your answers (credit taken, notice given, tips kept apart from a valid pool, and no manager, supervisor or owner in the pool) and the tipped-wage figures it carries. If any of those answers is “no”, it takes no credit. It does not work out the different cash figure that may then apply, because it cannot see the facts that figure depends on.
Tips never raise the overtime rate in the app and are never subtracted from overtime. The app’s way of totalling tips with pay is its own convention, not a statement of what any regulation provides.
Pricing a tip-credit week at the full applicable minimum wage is also the app’s own modelling choice, not a quotation of any regulation.
Wageproof does not model tip pooling allocation, service charges or tip reporting (see section 2).
The app does not apply the 2021 dual-jobs (“80/20”) limits on side work. A federal court vacated that rule in 2024 (Restaurant Law Center v. Department of Labor, Fifth Circuit). So the app does not count side-work minutes or split an hour between tipped and untipped duties.
Notes in the app about tip-pool rules, such as the 2018 federal change on managers, supervisors and owners keeping tips, are information only. Nothing is calculated from them.
If no tipped-wage figure is available for a day you worked, the app takes no tip credit that week. Those hours still use the minimum wage where the app has one. If neither table has a figure for a day, that day uses the shift’s own rate, which may be below the real minimum wage. Where the app does raise such a day to a minimum wage, the cash wage shown is the most those hours could need. It is not an amount due, and payroll’s own figure may be lower.
No tips saved for a week is not confirmation that you received none. Without recorded tips the app takes no tip credit and shows the full cash wage in its model. Enter $0.00 explicitly if you received no tips.
8. Year-End Pay Check
Year-End Pay Check adds up the overtime premium calculated from the hours and pay you logged, by the pay date you record, so you can compare it with the amounts on your Form W-2 (box 12). It covers ordinary 40-hour workweeks of an hourly, non-exempt employee only, and it calculates nothing until you say that applies. It does not calculate special overtime systems (such as 8/80, public-safety and compensatory-time rules), salary or piece-rate methods, federal-employee rules or exempt jobs.
It is record arithmetic, not a tax deduction or eligibility calculation, and not a substitute for a tax return.
A calculated premium does not show that it was paid. A difference between the app and your W-2 does not say which one is right.
Schedule pay is not part of the federal overtime premium in this check. If you did not set up schedule pay, that does not mean no schedule law applies.
The records you enter for this check are saved on your phone with their change history. They are not part of the weekly integrity record (see section 9), and nothing independently verifies them.
The comparison uses overtime payment confirmations and the W-2 box 12 code TT amount you enter. It can also compare the tip reports you record as given to this employer with code TP. Tips received in weekly entries are not the same as tips reported. Tip reports are counted in the year you gave them, not the year you received the tips.
Pay dates may be actual dates you record, dates you confirm from a pay schedule, or estimates from that schedule; the app labels the basis. Missing dates or incomplete confirmations can prevent an annual comparison. A saved confirmation describes the facts then recorded. Relevant later edits can make it out of date and require you to confirm again. Each export reflects the screen's calculation snapshot when generated, not an independently verified or permanently current result.
9. Records, fingerprints and notes
The app keeps an edit history. It also computes digital fingerprints (SHA-256) for closed workweeks, for off-the-clock notes, and for schedule records. Each is a separate chain, and they are never combined. These are data fingerprints, not biometric fingerprints.
What a fingerprint can show: whether a record changed after it was fingerprinted, and when the app recorded a detected change, using the device clock, not an independent timestamp.
What it cannot show: that a record was never changed, or that what it says is true. Anyone with access to your device’s data could change or remove both the records and the fingerprints.
What is not fingerprinted: bonuses, differentials and paystub entries are not part of the workweek fingerprint. Year-End records and changes to a job’s settings are kept in the job’s own change history, outside the weekly fingerprints and outside any chain, and nothing independently verifies them.
Notes cannot be removed in the app. Once you save an off-the-clock note, the app keeps it. You can correct a note, and the correction is kept beside the original. If you remove a note’s photo, the app tries to delete its picture file; a failed deletion can leave a file in app storage. The note’s history still shows that it had one. A schedule record you remove stays in its history with a “removed” entry. Removing a job does not delete its shifts or notes, but they can no longer be reached in the app, so export a backup first if you may need them.
To remove all your data, use Delete App, not Offload App, and delete any backups or exports you made.
An off-the-clock note is your own record that you did work, when you say it happened, and the moment the app saved it. A photo is optional. The app does not claim that a note or a photo shows or establishes anything. Do not use Wageproof to fabricate a record (see section 13).
10. Reminders
Reminders are optional local notifications. They are scheduled on your phone, not by us, and they depend on your device and notification settings. They may be late or may not arrive. They do not clock you in or out, and the clock-out reminder does not clock you out. Do not rely on them to meet any deadline.
iOS limits how many notifications an app can have waiting at once, and the app refreshes upcoming payday reminders when you open it. Open the app now and then to keep them up to date.
A payday reminder reflects the pay schedule you entered. It is not a statement that you were or will be paid.
A final-paycheck reminder is set when you enter an end date for a job and notifications are allowed. It points to a date the app worked out, as described in section 6.
The tip-report reminder is a monthly prompt, on the 10th, to review last month’s tips. It is a general pointer to IRS Publication 531, not tax advice. Employers usually expect tip reports by the 10th of the next month, or the next weekday if that falls on a weekend or holiday. Tips under $20 a month and non-cash tips have separate rules. Check the IRS source for your own situation.
11. Your data
Your records live on your device. We do not receive them. See the Privacy Policy.
You are responsible for your own backups. Use Settings → Backup & restore, and keep the file somewhere you can find it — if you lose or reset your device without a backup, the records are gone and we cannot recover them. A backup includes your off-the-clock photos. A photo over 8 MB is refused when you add it, and a backup that would grow too large leaves photos out and names each one it left out.
Restoring a backup replaces the records on this device, including history and schedule evidence, with what the file contains; it does not merge them. An older backup can replace newer history. The app asks for confirmation, and requires a separate acknowledgment if unreadable entries will be dropped. It reports omitted or unrestored photos and schedule fingerprints that do not verify. Restore is not one transaction: a failure partway can leave a mix of old and restored data. Export the current state before making further changes.
12. Wageproof Pro
Some features require Wageproof Pro (shown as “Premium” in some places in the app): the state rulesets, multiple jobs, bonuses and differentials in the math, paystub checking, tipped-wage figures, schedule-pay amounts, the Year-End W-2 comparison, and CSV and PDF export. Federal overtime, split shifts, overnight shifts, backup and restore, off-the-clock notes, the final-paycheck date, schedule records, and the integrity record are free and stay free.
Pro is sold as a monthly subscription, an annual subscription, or a one-time purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your Apple ID is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel a subscription in your App Store account settings after purchase. Refunds are handled by Apple under Apple’s policies, not by us.
If Pro lapses, we never delete your data. Pro features stop being available; every shift, job, answer and record you created stays stored. Backup export remains free; CSV and PDF export require Pro. Some jobs and calculations may be locked or use free-tier rules.
13. Acceptable use
Do not use Wageproof to fabricate a record. The app timestamps entries when they are made and keeps an append-only history of edits precisely so that a record means something; a record you falsify is worth nothing to you and may be worse than nothing.
14. Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Wageproof is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind, and we are not liable for any loss arising from your use of it — including any decision made, or not made, on the basis of a figure it produced. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
15. Changes
If these terms change, the date at the top changes with them. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept it. The version scope at the top explains which features apply to 1.2.x and which apply only to 1.3.0.