Month-end is when everything shows: the day the attendance sheet lands and you compare it to your hours. If you logged your shifts day by day, the review takes ten minutes. If you did not, the guessing starts and hours quietly slip away. Logging with Shiftat-E keeps this easy, and these seven steps are what to run every month-end before money goes missing.
Open your daily log and total each shift on its own, then add them all. Never work from memory or from a rough guess. Once the total is in front of you, you know exactly how many hours you worked and of which type.
Put your total next to the official attendance sheet and confirm the two numbers agree. If there is a gap, do not let it slide — half an hour a month piles up over a year. Hunt down where the difference sits: a whole shift missing, or entry and exit times recorded differently from what you logged.
Allowances are the easiest thing to forget because they do not appear as hours. Review each line separately:
If any of these was calculated at the wrong rate or dropped entirely, that is money you are owed. Match each allowance to a clear line on the sheet rather than trusting a total that looks roughly right.
Overtime can disappear inside your regular hours. Total overtime on its own and check whether the sheet paid you for it. Any overtime beyond your contract needs approval, so it pays to keep the email or message that requested it.
The moment the sheet reaches you, photograph it on your phone. A saved photo beats a memory a month later. If a question ever comes up, you open the photo and close the matter instead of chasing a lost piece of paper.
The gap you record today is far easier to fix. Wait a month or two and the conversation turns into "since when exactly?" and gets messy. Raise it with your supervisor, with the amount and the evidence, within the first week of the new month.
Once your hours are straight, you have a real picture of your month: how many shifts, how many nights, how much overtime. That is the best time to plan your next leave and book it early before the season fills up.
A month-end review is easy and reassuring when it stands on an honest record. Log your shifts and hours and plan your leave with Shiftat-E, and compare your number to the sheet with confidence — get it free on Google Play.
