<prompt> Human: Hello! Recently, I had my first annual review at my company and received a raise of about 5700. I believe incrementally broken down, this adds about 165 to my pre-raise biweekly income, after taxes. Since my annual review occurred after my actual work anniversary, my company agreed to retro pay me the missing raise income from my anniversary date about four paychecks. This would be equivalent to 660. I just received my first post-raise paycheck! Which, hypothetically would be my original pre-raise paycheck165660... Imagine my surprise when I saw that, plus an additional 3000 in my account. Brought it up to one of the company owners, who also is the only person who runs payroll. This guy has a problem admitting that he makes mistakes. The type of person who will never admit any wrongdoing and if he does make a mistake, will either brush it off or blame someone else. When I told him, he looked at me condescendingly and said, No, no, you were supposed to get additional money because we retro paid you the difference in salary from your anniversary date. Okay. I explained further and said that I was pretty sure it was a lot more than that and he should go back and look at it again. He said he would, and that if there was an issue, they would just deduct the mistakenly paid additional amount from future paychecks. Now, Im not actually sure that hes going to go back and fix it because hes pretty absentminded and hates admitting mistakes. Ive done some research about my states labor laws. As much as I dont think I should have to deal with their mistake, legally I believe the money belongs to them. They cannot deduct from my future paychecks without written consent from me, but Im at-will and would like to keep my job. Question is - is it now my responsibility to continuously remind him to fix it if he forgets, and whats the best way to go about fixing the error? Let them deduct from future paycheck with written consent, or write a check for the money and give it back to them?  <response>: It might be worth getting something in writing from him stating that there was no mistake. If there should be an issue you can always bring that up, but between that and the fact that youve been pro-active I cant imagine a company would lose sleep because they slightly overpaid an employee that they just committed to saying they value higher.Congrats on the promotion! 