Show Me the Money (Payroll & Off-Cycle Pay)
This is the official online portal where all UC employees view paychecks, manage direct deposit, and update tax forms.
What is UCPath?
This term describes the routine advancement of a faculty member's step and salary without changing their rank.
What is a Merit?
This is the name of UCI’s localized portal, known as the EEC, where employees open tickets for HR and payroll help.
What is the Employee Experience Center?
Regular hourly employees at UCI are paid on this specific frequency.
What is biweekly?
This is the exact day and time our team holds its recurring weekly staff meeting.
What is every Wednesday at 9AM.
This acronym stands for the automated system UCI uses to submit, track, and approve hourly employee timesheets.
What is TRS (Time Reporting System)?
This significant career advancement moves a faculty member up in rank, such as from Assistant to Associate Professor.
What is a Promotion?
Located physically in Riverside, this centralized center handles complex benefits and system-wide payroll processing for all UC campuses.
What is the UCPath Center?
Faculty and regular salaried staff are paid on this specific day of the month, or the closest business day prior.
What is the first of the month?
If you are sick or running late in the morning, this is the indicividual and preferred communication channel to notify.
What is Maria on Teams?
If an employee is missed on a regular pay cycle, this is the specific type of off-cycle check requested to pay them quickly.
What is an emergency pay or expedited check request?
This type of paid leave allows faculty to focus on research, earning credits based on their quarters of active service.
What is a Sabbatical?
This specific department on the UCI campus manages the policy, files, and voting procedures specifically for professors, lecturers, and researchers.
What is the Office of Academic Personnel?
Timesheets must be approved by supervisors by this specific day of the week during a biweekly pay deadline lift.
What is Monday (by 11:59 PM, or standard departmental deadline)?
When a faculty file needs final departmental approval, it must be routed to these two accounts.
What is PSAP and PSPayroll?
This is the name of the financial transaction used to move previously paid salaries from one account string to another.
What is a Direct Retro?
To maintain fairness, external letters of evaluation in a candidate’s review file must have this specific attribute removed before the candidate sees them.
What is redacted (or confidential)?
This is the name of the virtual AI assistant chatbot found inside the UCPath portal that helps answer basic navigation questions.
What is PathPal?
This policy dictates that a faculty member cannot hold an active appointment that exceeds this total percentage across all funding sources.
What is 100% (or 1.00 FTE)?
To know who is in the office or working remotely, our team logs our schedules in this shared location.
What is the PS-Personnel-Team General Channel
Faculty can earn this type of extra pay during the off-season months, capped strictly at 3/9ths of their annual base salary.
What is Summer Salary?
This specific campus committee of faculty peers reviews all major academic files and makes recommendations to the Chancellor.
What is CAP (Committee on Academic Personnel)?
If you need to verify if a specific funding source can pay a faculty member's salary, this is the internal departmental team or person you must consult.
Who is our Contract and Grant Analyst (or Finance/KFS manager)?
This is the term for the system-enforced date after which no new payroll changes can be processed for the upcoming paycheck.
What is the UCPath production cutoff?
This is the internal shared drive or folder name where our team stores all historical AP files, templates, and payroll guides.
What is the PS-DeansOffice-SoPS Personnel Team folder on One Drive?