Need to share your W2 without revealing your salary? AI detects and redacts SSN, wages, and tax information while keeping employment details visible.
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Background check companies and new employers often request W2s to verify your employment history. But your W2 contains sensitive information you shouldn't have to share: your exact salary, SSN, tax withholdings, and benefits. Sharing this gives away your negotiating leverage and exposes you to identity theft.
Redact the sensitive parts while keeping what they actually need: proof you worked there. SafeRedact uses AI to automatically find salary figures, SSN, and tax amounts on your W2. Review what it found, then download a permanently redacted PDF in seconds.
New employer's background check company wants W2s to verify employment. Redact salary to protect your negotiating position.
When previous employer won't respond to verification requests, a redacted W2 proves you worked there without exposing compensation.
Landlords want proof of income. Show you have steady employment while redacting exact salary if you prefer to share pay stubs instead.
California, New York, and 20+ other states ban employers from asking salary history. Redact compensation to exercise your legal rights.
Drop your W2 PDF or image. Processing happens in your browser—your document never leaves your device.
SafeRedact automatically finds SSN, salary amounts, tax figures, and other sensitive data on your W2.
Check what AI found. Click to add or remove redactions. Keep employer name and EIN visible for verification.
Get your permanently redacted W2 as a PDF. The redacted text is completely removed, not just covered.
A W2 is your tax document. You have every right to redact personal information before sharing it. In fact, 21 states plus DC have salary history bans that prohibit employers from asking about previous compensation. Redacting salary information protects your legal rights and negotiating position. Background check companies routinely accept redacted W2s for employment verification—they just need to confirm you worked there, not how much you made.
Yes. Most background check companies accept redacted W2s for employment verification. They need to confirm you worked at the employer during the stated period—they don't need your exact salary. If they push back, you can cite salary history ban laws or offer alternative verification methods.
Covering (like using a black highlighter or drawing a box in a PDF editor) just hides text visually—it can often be copied, selected, or revealed. True redaction permanently removes the underlying text data from the PDF. SafeRedact applies true redaction so the sensitive information is completely gone.
Yes. After AI detects your SSN, you can adjust the redaction box to show just the last 4 digits (XXX-XX-1234). Some verification processes require matching on last 4 SSN, so this is a common approach.
No. SafeRedact processes your document directly in your browser. Your W2 never leaves your device—the AI detection runs client-side. This is the most private approach possible for document redaction.
You can simply say you've redacted personal financial information for privacy. In states with salary history bans, they legally cannot require unredacted salary information. The W2 still proves employment—that's what they actually need to verify.
AI finds sensitive data automatically. Download your redacted W2 in under a minute.
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