I Discovered My Boss Was Overpaying Me (They want $17k now)
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. |
| 0:04.3 | Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.4 | So my question is about my employer who's telling me that I owe them about $17,000 |
| 0:11.5 | due to an error that they made with overpaying me over the past year and a half that |
| 0:16.7 | I recently uncovered and brought to them. |
| 0:19.2 | Oh, boy. |
| 0:21.6 | You figured it out. |
| 0:24.1 | Yes. |
| 0:24.6 | And they want you to repay them. |
| 0:27.4 | That's correct. |
| 0:28.3 | And what? |
| 0:29.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:29.9 | What did they say? |
| 0:30.9 | When do they want the money by? |
| 0:33.1 | So they want the money by the end of this fiscal year, which is July, but then it's actually |
| 0:38.8 | October because that's when we get our bonuses. |
| 0:41.7 | So the error was, I came back from maternity leave in September, 2024. |
| 0:47.5 | I wanted to start work at 9 a.m. instead of 8. I'm a physician. And getting there at 8 |
| 0:54.1 | was just too hard. We have four kids. |
| 0:56.3 | And so it was really just a couple days a week. I went from a one point O employee to |
| 1:01.1 | point nine five or like 95 percent effort basically. I didn't notice the change on my |
| 1:06.1 | paycheck. Back then I really wasn't paying attention to anything. I was the typical doctor |
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