Enthusiastic artist, horticulturist, architect, astronomer and speaker of eight languages, it's difficult not to dwell on how presidential wannabes these days fight over who is the most ordinary Joe Schmoe.
A cheque (British English) or check (American English; see spelling differences) is a document that orders a bank to pay a specific amount of money from a person's account to the person in whose name the cheque has been issued.
An example of a payslip from the John Lewis Partnership, showing gross salary, tax and National Insurance paid and yearly bonus entitlement, among other things. A pay cheque, also spelt pay check, is traditionally a paper document (a cheque) issued by an employer to pay an employee for services rendered. In recent times, the physical paycheck has been increasingly replaced by electronic direct deposits to the employee's designated bank account or loaded onto a payroll card.