£80,000 error | Firm accidentally pays worker 367x their salary

Pay slip mistakes aren’t uncommon. An employee might complain that they’ve received less than they expected, or surprisingly ended up with more one month compared to another.

A company in Hungary accidentally paid one of their staff 367 times more than they had earned in a finance malfunction.

The unnamed employee worked for a company in Hungary for a short stint for which he was supposed to receive 260 Euros (£224), but his one-off employer accidentally sent him a significantly different amount of 92,549 Euros (£79,773).

After realising they had paid an incorrect amount, the company reached out to the employee to get it back. However, the worker said he didn’t have access to the account, and it later transpired that he had extracted over £13,000 worth of Euros at an ATM, a police investigation later revealed.