USPS Style

How USPS employees get their pay stubs

USPS employees don't get a generic stub — they get an Earnings and Leave Statement, and the place to find it is LiteBlue, the Postal Service's employee site. Sign in with your Employee ID and password, open the ePayroll section, and you can view or print statements going back many pay periods. PostalEASE, reached through LiteBlue, handles related payroll settings like allotments and direct deposit. Former employees typically request records through USPS HR shared services instead. The Postal Service pays biweekly, on a pay-period calendar published each year. This page is an independent template and isn't affiliated with USPS; employer-issued statements come only from LiteBlue and the channels above.

What a USPS-style earnings statement shows

An Earnings and Leave Statement is denser than a typical retail stub. Pay is built from a grade and step, so the statement lists your level rather than just an hourly rate. Carriers and clerks often see extra earning lines: night differential for hours worked in the evening window, Sunday premium, and holiday-work pay all typically appear separately. The leave section tracks annual and sick leave earned and used, which most private-sector stubs skip entirely. Deductions usually include federal withholding, Social Security, Medicare, FERS retirement, TSP contributions, FEHB premiums, and — for many craft employees — union dues.

Using this USPS-style template

This template is built for personal record-keeping: reconstructing a statement you can't reach anymore, laying out a CCA year where hours swung week to week, or just understanding how differentials change take-home pay. Every field is editable — pay period, base rate, differential lines, deductions, and year-to-date totals — and federal withholding uses the simplified annualization estimate described in our methodology. The preview is free; a finished PDF is $7.99. Enter only real figures from your actual pay, and treat the LiteBlue statement as the authoritative version of your pay history.

Career, non-career, and negotiated pay tables

Postal pay has a structure most employers don't share. Many carriers, clerks, and mail handlers are represented by unions, and as of recent years their pay tables have come out of negotiated agreements, typically with periodic increases and cost-of-living adjustments built in. Non-career employees — City Carrier Assistants and Rural Carrier Associates, for example — usually sit on different tables than career employees, and conversion to career status changes both the rate and how leave accrues. That's why two postal stubs from the same office can look quite different. If you're rebuilding records that span a conversion or a contract raise, check the rate for each period instead of reusing one number.

What this template includes

• Independent, editable layout
• Personal record-keeping only
• Employer-issued records remain authoritative