1953

Another example of how Barks was lacking in funds because of Western's policy. He delivered the long story for FC0495 'The Horseradish Story' together with other material (the image shows a payslip summation, page 2) and all of a sudden Western owed him more than 1,200 dollars. But the following month Barks received the usual advance that still was inadequate.

1954

Western must have realized that their advance policy was unjust to some of their staff (the workaholics) so they tried to remedy the injustice by issuing advance payments on a more frequent scale - but the cheques were only half of the usual amounts! So nothing much was accomplished!
Notice that Western (and all other American companies) now had to collect legislative taxes (the so-called W/H or withholding tax) as an item on the payslips. Later on, social security contributions and California State tax were added.

1955

A gesture of raising the advance payments to 350 dollars still had a negative effect on Barks who could only accept tacitly. Western's method of payment ceased as late as in 1962.
The interesting story on this payslip is from U$14 'The Spite Fence', in which Gyro Gearloose tries to create some peace and quiet in order to get some work done. Initially, Barks had incorporated Donald Duck into the story, but due to certain postal rules he was forced to substitute him for another character (see more HERE, section 2). As you can see Barks was paid for the few alterations.

From now on the payslips were purely routine between employer and employees, so it will serve no purpose to continue publishing more. In closure, Barks received his last filed payslip from Western on December 18, 1968. It was for the front cover to WDCS126 Officer for a Day which paid him 52.50 dollars (50.00 for the art plus 2.50 for sales tax).

1944-1946

1947-1949

1950-1952

1953-1955