In addition to the usual year-end tasks, specific situations can arise with grant-funded positions and the electronic Personnel Effort Reporting System (ePERS).
Working with updated — or “clean” — data can greatly improve reporting accuracy and efficient workflow. Learn how to easily find two common sources of outdated data – expired faculty contracts and short work break records.
Employee Services will run a series of salary uploads in early January to update certain employees’ compensation. Please hold off on making job data entries for future-dated rows until after the uploads are completed.
On Nov. 1, 2026, CU will implement an updated State of Colorado pay plan to reflect a $19.29 minimum hourly rate and will provide compression increases to certain classified employees. To ensure pay equity, minimum wage increases will also be applied to university staff.
As tax season approaches, international employees and students should verify their Sprintax Calculus profiles for accuracy. Reviewing and updating records now will help ensure compliance with 2026 tax reporting requirements.
There’s more to payroll funding than position funding. To make sense of the payroll transactions that post to the general ledger, account codes classify the kind of earnings and benefits processed by payroll and are used to post fringe rates and encumbrances.
The HCM payroll encumbrance calculation process is an important way to track projected payroll obligations—such as payroll, taxes and deductions—in the general ledger.
