Payroll clarity is lacking. What can be done to make sure a specific project team or ALCP duty is articulated on each paystub that includes extra pay? When a person serves on many project teams, committees, and ALCP roles, it is near impossible to know what one has or has not been paid for.
Answer from Dan Redding, Executive Director for HR: Thanks for the question. HR wants you to receive good information on your pay stub, and we’re glad you’re watching it! We’ve worked with Payroll to use the limited number of fields and characters available to provide more precise information.
When teachers (or exempt employees on the teacher pay scale) are paid for additional hourly work through Kronos, we ask that Principals, APs, or Timekeepers add a note to the Teacher Extra Work or Professional Development Project Work code. This note will explain the payment, which can be seen when you look at your timecard in Kronos and hover over the comment icon. This helps you understand what you're being paid for.
For ALCP and other summer project work paid through a different process, we use special codes to show what each stipend is for. Here is a list of the codes and their meanings:
- STIPEND ELA: ELA
- SP MATH: Math
- STIPEND SCI: Science
- SP SOCIAL: Social Studies
- STIPEND CTE: CTE
- S-HEALTH/PE: Health and PE
- STIPEND ART: Arts
- STIPND TDRT: TDRT
- SP WL/EL: World Language/EL
- STIPEND MIS: Other
- STIPEND CRT: CRT
- STIPEND CAI: CAI
- SP RC/DD: Responsive Classroom/Developmental Design
- STIPEND NTA: New Teacher Academy
- STIPND AVID: AVID
- STIPND SPED: SPED
- B-HOMEVIST: BrightSTARS home visits
- LONGVTY BN: Longevity Bonus
We also let the supervisors who submit these special payments know when they are due to us and when (based on the submission date) they show up in employee checks. Based on when the data is submitted to HR, they should be able to tell summer project participants when the payment is coming. If data is incomplete or inaccurate or does not follow the Supplemental Pay Plan, that may cause delays. We provide this chart to supervisors and timekeepers who submit these payment requests to HR.
Answer by Dan Redding, Executive Director of Human Resources