The Scenario
You are a payroll specialist. The legal team has asked for an audit of all active wage garnishments — who has them, what type, the amount, and the current status. They need the data in an Excel workbook to share with outside counsel by end of week.
The data is in Gusto. Garnishments are inside individual employee records, and there is no single export that gives you the full picture.
The slow version:
- Navigate to each employee in Gusto
- Check whether they have an active garnishment
- Note the type, amount, and status
- Switch to Excel and type the row
- Repeat for all 120 employees
- It is Thursday and outside counsel needs the file tomorrow.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI pulls garnishment data across all employees from Gusto and writes the full compliance picture into the workbook in one pass.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Export all active Gusto employee garnishments into this Excel sheet: columns employee ID, employee name, garnishment description, amount per payroll, active, created date. Sort by employee last name.
SheetXAI calls Gusto for each employee, retrieves their garnishment records, and writes the results into the workbook. Employees without garnishments are omitted from the active garnishments view, or flagged with "None" — your choice.
What You Get
A garnishment compliance workbook:
- Employee ID — for downstream system lookups
- Employee name — first and last
- Garnishment description — type and details
- Amount per payroll — the per-run garnishment amount
- Active — whether the garnishment is currently active
- Created date — when the garnishment was established in Gusto
This is the file outside counsel needs. You can hand it over without further formatting.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Garnishment data has compliance edge cases.
When you only want active garnishments, not historical ones
The legal team only needs currently active garnishments.
Fetch all Gusto garnishments for all employees. Only include garnishments where active is true. Write employee ID, employee name, garnishment description, amount per payroll, and created date to this workbook. Sort by employee last name.
When garnishment amounts need to be totaled per payroll run
The payroll team wants total garnishment liability per run, not just individual records.
Fetch all active Gusto garnishments across all employees. Group by garnishment type and calculate total per-payroll amount. Write garnishment type, number of affected employees, and total per-payroll amount to a Summary section at the top. Below, write the full detail with employee name, garnishment description, and amount.
When you need to include employee name alongside the employee ID
Outside counsel wants names, not just IDs, in the file.
For each employee in Gusto, fetch their active garnishments. Write employee ID, full name, garnishment type, amount per payroll, and active status to this workbook. One row per garnishment. Sort by employee last name.
When you need a combined compliance view — garnishments plus benefit deductions — for the quarterly HR review
Your HR director wants all mandatory and voluntary payroll deductions together for the quarterly compliance report.
Pull all active Gusto garnishments for all employees. Then pull all active Gusto benefit deductions for all employees. Combine into one workbook tab with columns: employee name, deduction type, category (Garnishment or Benefit), amount per payroll, and status. Sort by employee last name. Add a summary at the top with total garnishment count and total benefit deduction count.
The pattern: instead of checking each employee manually, you describe the full compliance view and SheetXAI assembles it.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open a blank workbook, then ask it to fetch the Gusto garnishment data. The Gusto integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For related workflows, see how to export the employee roster for HR audit or the Gusto in Excel overview.