I work at a smaller company, which handles a lot of government contracts. The owner has diversified and does some side projects in the production and industrial field, which is where I work. We switched payroll companies recently and I have noticed some oddities with my pay statements. We are paid every 2 weeks, but every statement has me listed as working 160 hours. It should only be 80 and that is all that I report when I submit my time card. All of my PTO shows up as how I submitted it. For example, I take 8 hours off, the statements says I took 8 hours off, but has an additional 8 hours as worked. My pay rate is cut in half of what I should actually be making, but because it says I work 160 hours every week, it balances out. Why would an employer do this? Is it so that he can bill the government for more hours than anyone actually put into the job? When I asked for clarification on this, I was told it was a clerical error, but it has been ongoing for months. I would say that his answers were very vague and nondescript, and the way he explained it made it sound like he was aware of this, even though he told me it must have just been an error. I'm confused on how this works and whether or not it is an actual error. Can someone with more knowledge of how all this works please explain?