A year-to-date pay is a cumulative amount of all the payments made to an individual from the beginning of the year to the current date. Net pay is the amount paid after the deduction of taxes and other charges being applied to an amount of money. A YTD is calculated after a fiscal year, while net pay is the amount received after tax deductions.
Net Pay is the amount you have made during a given pay period whereas the Year-to-date, commonly abbreviated as YTD Net Pay is the much you have made in a year up to the time when the net pay is determined. With Net pay, a person can get to know the amount someone has in a given time of payment. With YTD net pay, a person can track the amount they have made for that specific year.
Net pay is given based on the salary provision system of a given company or institution. This is usually done every week or fortnightly or after a month. For YTD net pay, it changes once a person gets paid and gets updated with the amount that was accumulated from day 1 of that fiscal or calendar year – in most cases, it is the 1st of January.
Using YTD net pay, employers and employees can assess the current state and performance vis-à-vis the target period. It can also help someone determine how much they can save over a year and how to get to the target.