Payment Guidelines
Excess compensation is designed to pay faculty for services provided outside normal duties. Typically it is for service performed on a one-time-only basis such as a lecture or workshop.
What Approvals are Needed?
Approvals are required in 3 areas before submitting online:
These approvals will be in the form of emails which will be pasted into the notes section of the PERM. If this note is not included indicating approvals by all parties the excess compensation may be cancelled by AHR.
Please remember that the request for approval must include a description of the services provided, dates of service, budget number, and total amount to be paid.
How Do I Get the Right Information into OPUS?
The Excess Compensation worksheet is a tool to use to determine what to enter into OPUS to process the payment. The email approvals and activity description must be pasted into the NOTES section.
The excess compensation worksheet cannot be used to determine payment for clinical/affiliate (C/A), or paid direct (PDR) faculty when there is no full-time monthly pay rate in OPUS. Excess compensation for these categories will be reflected as a lump sum payment. No percent of FTE is submitted and the total amount to be paid is entered into the distribution amount.
For payment of retroactive excess compensation first determine the correct distribution information and enter into OPUS. Follow up with a request for payment by sending an email with the distribution information to payme@u.washington.edu.
What are the Right Earn Types?
Faculty who have a full time monthly rate of pay and receive REG or SUM earnings should be processed with E/C to pay excess compensation.
Clinical and Affiliate faculty who reflect C/A earn type, or faculty who are PDR (paid direct) should be processed with ECH to pay excess compensation.
Excess compensation to emeritus faculty should be processed using the earn type TEC.
Policy
It is expected that the working time of University faculty is to be devoted to the duties which may be assigned them by the University. Every effort shall be made to schedule all University-related faculty work as a part of normal duties. Excess compensation to University faculty for work not represented by regular salary may be paid only under exceptional circumstances, and must be approved in advance by the Dean/Chancellor. In no case shall such additional compensation exceed 25 percent of a faculty member's regular monthly salary in any month. This limitation shall apply to compensation for all University services, except that excess pay for direct services on research grants or contracts is not permissible.
BR, March 1953; Executive Order No. 59 of the President, October 1, 1982
For More Information
Please contact the Payroll office at (206) 543-9202 or email payroll@u.washington.edu for appropriate procedures to pay exception time for Classified staff.
Please contact the Office of Compensation and Professional Staff Programs at (206) 543-9404 for more information on paying exception time to Professional staff level I and excess compensation to Professional staff levels II and III.