Cobalt Operations Team: Payslip PDF for EMP-08
Payslip PDF for EMP-08 for Cobalt Operations Team. A one-page payslip for Team member 8. The period table runs 1,428.00 gross through three deductions to 1,057.56 net, the employer-cost table shows 42.84, 109.24 and 63.00 that are not deducted from pay, and the year-to-date table shows 5 periods at 5,287.80 net.

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Specifications
- Document Set
- payroll
- Industry
- people-operations
- Source Kit
- people-operations
- Synthetic
- true
- As Of
- 2026-09-08
- Pages
- 1
- Employee Id
- EMP-08
- Gross Usd
- 1428.00
- Net Usd
- 1057.56
- Employer Cost Shown
- true
Testing contract
Expected to pass- Scenario
- Extract the three tables and reconcile the period figures with the payroll register and the year-to-date figures with the period ones.
- Expected result
- The period table reproduces the EMP-08 row of payroll-register.csv exactly, with deductions in accounting parentheses summing to (370.44) and a net of 1,057.56. The employer costs appear only in their own table and are absent from the deduction total. Each year-to-date figure is 5 times the period figure, matching ytd-earnings.csv.
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Code examples
import pdfplumber # pip install pdfplumber
with pdfplumber.open("payslip-EMP-08.pdf") as pdf:
print(len(pdf.pages), "pages")
print(pdf.pages[0].extract_text())Related files
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