<prompt> Human: tl:dr first. New job that needs my employment history with EXACT dates from the past 6 years in order to pay me for my experience. Is there a way to order one from..maybe the IRS or any other government entity.This year is my first year as a teacher, in which I am teaching a technical subject machine tool and die. Because Im employed due to experience in the trade instead of a degree, they are allowing me to substitute years of experience in the trade in order to bump my salary up the list. In order to do this, I must submit a paper for each of my previous employers with EXACT dates of employment. Im positive some of my past employers would rather throw it out then break open the old filing cabinets and find the information, so Im looking for a way to basically order an employment history myself. All I really need is exact start and end date, but if I could get exact number of days worked, that would be sweet as well. Any suggestions? Feel free to let me know if this sub is not the best place for this.  <response>: I had to file a Request for Earnings statement through Social Security, all it shows is the company name and address for each employer through whom you earned Social Security wages and the years that you worked for them. It doesnt tell what months or exact dates plus you have to pay for itprice depending on how many years you request information for, so Im going to guess that its not the route you would want to take, unless you needed the contact information for your old employers. I would suggest contacting the home office for each of your old employers and requesting copies of your W-2s. Hope this helped, I was bummed when mine came in the mail and I saw how incomplete it was. 