Salary History/Background Check

So I recently received an offer from KPMG to join their advisory practice. During salary negotiation, they made me give them a ## for what I was making before, and I told the recruiter 50k . My actual base salary is 46k + I received a 3k bonus last year so rounded up to 50k. This was my salary from 1 year ago (my pay increase and larger bonus is due next week. KPMG does a background check and I'm kinda freaking out over rounding up from 49k. Am I overworrying or is this something to be concerned with? Everyone I've spoken to says i am "freaking out over nothing".

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You're good. If you made 30 and said 50 that's one thing, but if you made 49 you were honest. Nothing to fret over.

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