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Tracking your income

Learn how Rocket Money can help you keep track of your income and adjust your spending accordingly.

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Written by Francis
Updated over a week ago

Navigate to the Spending tab and select Income, from there you'll find all your income transactions. From here, double check all of your income transactions are being properly categorized.

Upcoming paychecks can be found in your Dashboard as long as they are within one week from your payday. This is located in the Upcoming section of the Dashboard.

Upcoming paychecks can also be found on the Recurring tab within two weeks of your upcoming payday.

If you are seeing your income amount is off, you can also manually adjust your income amount. To adjust your income amount manually, select the Settings (⚙️) icon in the upper left corner of the Dashboard and then select Manage Budget. From there, tap Earnings and you'll be able to correct your income amount.

Premium members can create a custom category to for another stream of income to track in addition to the default Income category.

To create a custom category from the Mobile App:

  1. Tap on the Settings (⚙️) icon in the upper left corner of the Dashboard.

  2. Select Categories and Rules

  3. Next, tap New Category

  4. From there, type in the category name you'd like to set and choose an icon and color to correspond to that category. At this time you can also select if you want this category to be included in your spend or income.

  5. After that, select the Category group (Expenses, Earnings, Ignored)

  6. Finally, select Save.

To create a custom category from the Website:

  1. Tap on the Settings (⚙️) icon in the upper left corner of the Dashboard.

  2. Select Categories

  3. Next, tap New Category

  4. From there, type in the category name you'd like to set and choose an icon and color to correspond to that category. At this time you can also select if you want this category to be included in your spend or income.

  5. After that, select the Category group (Expenses, Earnings, Ignored)

  6. Finally, select Save.

If you are seeing any discrepancies in your income or payroll, please check out this article for troubleshooting steps on fixing your income in the mobile app.

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