Paychecks/Advice of Deposits
Included on this page:
Your paycheck or advice of deposit should be made available to you on
payday.
There are two paydays each month: the 10th and the 25th. If payday falls on
a Saturday, you will be paid on Friday. If payday falls on a Sunday, you will
be paid the following Monday (unless Monday is a holiday, then you will be
paid on the previous Friday).
- Paychecks and Advices are available from your home department.
The Payroll
Office will not mail paychecks to your campus or home address. Make any
special delivery arrangements directly with your home department.
- Pick up Check Registers from the Payroll Office two days prior to
payday.
- Pick up Paychecks, Advice of Deposits and the Employee Check-Advice
Register from the Payroll Office on payday.
- Ensure that employees sign the Employee Check-Advice Register when
they
receive
their paycheck.
- If employee has failed to pick up their paycheck in a reasonable
amount of time, and after a due deligent attempt to contact employee,
please return check(s) to the Payroll Office with a cover sheet labeled
"Unable to
Locate Employee" . (Do not label "Cancel" or write anything on
actual check).
Any representative of a campus department, including the payroll
coordinator, who comes to pick up paychecks, must be carrying that
departments Payroll Pick-up Authorization Card. This currently is also
referred to as the "Green Card".
The schedule of paydays are based on WAC 82-50-021. Unless
exempted otherwise under the provisions of WAC 82-50-031, the salaries of
all state officers and employees are paid on a lagged, semimonthly basis
for the official twice-a-month pay periods established in RCW
42.16.010(1).
When do direct deposit funds become
available?
Funds should become available in your bank account on payday.
Please contact your bank directly if your funds are not available.
What if an employee has failed to pick up their check after a
certain amount of time?
If an employee has failed to pick up their check after a due deligent
attempt by the department to contact the employee(s)
please return check(s) to the Payroll Office with a cover sheet labeled
"Unable to Locate".
