I received a W-2 from a place I worked in 2023. I was NOT employed by them, at all in 2024, but they sent me one anyways, why would that be?

[jjtwinsmama]

Why Did I get a W-2 from somewhere I didn't work at that year?

[SteamTrain]

Sometimes the wages at the very end of the year (last week or two) get slopped into the next year.....depending on their accounting procedures.  (but $$ amounts would have to seem reasonable of a week or 2 of pay)

Sometimes there are certain other funds that get paid out in the next year.   I received some $$ a full year and a half after I left the job, due to some incentive pay that only was issued that much later.  And the next Feb...got a W-2 for it.

[JohnB5677]

There are a few possible reasons.

• You may have worked the last few weeks of 2023, and the pay period carried over into 2024.
• As SteanTrain said "Sometimes there are certain other funds that get paid out in the next year."
• Check to see if it was included on you 2023 tax return.
• It is a corrected 2023 W-2.  This will be listed as a W-2 G and it looks very different from your regular W-2.