Social Security / tax IDs
SSN and ITIN values, plus the employer EIN that often appears in the header.
Pay Stub Redaction
Redact a pay stub before you share it
Proof of income for a landlord, lender, or marketplace buyer should not mean handing over your SSN, bank account, and full pay history. RedactVault redacts a pay stub in your browser — the file is processed on your device and is not sent to RedactVault servers for redaction.
Free to start. No subscription required to redact a single pay stub.
What gets caught
The details a pay stub exposes
Opening a pay stub turns on detection tuned for payroll paperwork — SSN, employer EIN, employee and payroll IDs, deposit account and routing numbers, names, addresses, dates, and currency amounts are highlighted automatically for your review.
Employee & payroll IDs
Employee numbers, payroll references, and other staff identifiers printed on the stub.
Deposit account & routing
Direct-deposit bank account and routing numbers, and any card or IBAN values.
Name & home address
The employee name and address block, and often the employer name and address too.
Pay amounts & dates
Gross/net pay, year-to-date totals, pay-period dates, and date of birth where present.
Employer details
Company name and contact details you may not want to share with a landlord or buyer.
Free-text fields vary too much to detect reliably, so review them yourself before exporting: employer names, deduction and benefit descriptions, pay-line labels, and any unusual notes or memo text. You can black these out in the same editor.
How it works
Three steps, all in your browser
Open the pay stub in your browser
Select your PDF, photo, or screenshot. It is processed locally by your browser and is not sent to RedactVault servers for redaction.
Review the highlighted details
RedactVault highlights SSN, EIN, employee/payroll IDs, account numbers, names, addresses, dates, and amounts. You confirm, add, or remove boxes before anything is final.
Export a flattened copy
Export a redacted file with the marked text removed and metadata stripped — proof of income you can hand to a landlord, lender, or buyer.
Why browser-local matters
Your pay stub does not leave your device to be redacted
Most online redaction tools transfer your file to a server first. RedactVault runs the redaction in your browser, so the document content is not sent to RedactVault servers for redaction. Account, billing, and support data are still handled server-side like any normal web app.
Before you send it
Always review the redacted copy before sharing. Automatic detection helps you find common values but is not guaranteed to catch everything. Many pay stubs are shared as phone photos or screenshots — those rely on text recognition (English-focused) and need a careful visual check, since image-based exports cannot be verified by re-reading a text layer. Drawing a black box in a phone markup app does not remove the text underneath; use a real redaction so the values are actually gone.
Further reading
Redaction guides for income paperwork
Practical reading on redacting pay stubs and other financial documents without leaking the data.
Redact financial documents without uploading them to the cloud
Why browser-local redaction fits pay stubs, bank statements, and other income paperwork.
Why drawing black boxes over a PDF is not real redaction
The trap behind phone-markup black rectangles, and what actually removes the text.
The biggest PDF redaction mistakes people still make
Common ways a pay stub leaks data after it looks redacted, and how to avoid them.
How the processing works
Check the security and accuracy details
Read how RedactVault processes documents locally and where its detection limits are, so you know exactly what the tool does and does not do before trusting it with a pay stub.
Ready when you are
Redact your pay stub now
Open your pay stub and review the highlighted details. Nothing is shared until you export the copy you choose to send.
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