This process moves employees who receive their first paycheck in July from next year Position Management to current year Position Management. It also updates some of the fields on the following Maintenance tabs in the current year (see step 7 for detailed information):
A separate simulation needs to be set up for employees who receive their first paycheck in July. This is necessary because the position in the next year Position Management reflects the current year’s salary information. The simulation updates the fields in the next year positions for the new school year and clears the Accept Changes field. The new salary information from the next year position is updated in the current year, updating both the current year Position Management and the Staff Job/Pay Data fields for those employees. As 12-month employees do not accrue, it is not necessary to move them to the next year payroll. Contact your regional ESC consultant to discuss moving 12-month employees to the next year payroll.
Note: Depending on the LEA, it may not be necessary to set up separate simulations. If the LEA has determined next year salaries and completed all interfacing to Budget for the year, one simulation can be used when moving employees. Contact your regional ESC consultant to discuss this option.
It is important to consider how this process affects the budget. If you update 12-month positions with the new salary amount for the next school year in the next year Position Management, running the simulation a second time at a later date for all employees gives the 12-month employees an additional increase. If you were unable to update the budget with accurate salaries for all employees prior to rolling 12-month employees, it is necessary to update Budget with multiple simulations. Reference the Interface to Budget Checklist.
The following checklist assumes the LEA has interfaced the payroll salaries to Budget using the Salary Simulation process in Position Management.
TIP: Be sure to complete service records and extract June TRS before continuing this process. This process updates the begin and end contract dates for 12-month employees in the current year payroll. Service records must reflect the begin and end dates from the current school year, and these dates are used to calculate the days and hours worked for TRS purposes. This process will overwrite the employee’s calendar with the calendar for the new year. If June TRS has not been extracted, the system is unable to calculate this information for June.
Position Management > Utilities > Update Fiscal Year by Fund
Verify that the account code fiscal years are accurate. This tab provides a list of the fund/fiscal years that are set up in the positions. This process increments the position distribution fiscal year by 1.
Note: Since the account codes are validated against the budget, there should not be any fiscal years less than the next year. If there are, generate a user-created report to identify the positions and manually update the information.
Position Management > Reports > User Created Reports > CYR/NYR Positions
Generate a PMIS user-created report to verify that the Increase Eligible field is selected for applicable positions. It is possible that the field is not selected for new LEA employees from last year.
❏ It is recommended to verify the Nbr Remain Payments field prior to calculating salaries.
❏ Select the following fields on the user-created report:
❏ Click Create Report. The report is displayed. Use the sort/filter functionality to group the applicable data.
Note: The number of remaining payments reflected on the report is displayed on the Job Info tab as the number of annual payments and the number of remaining payments for the employee for any P position type. If the LEA uses S acct types or business allowances for extra duties, S position types on this report should reflect the correct number of remaining payments. Prior to continuing, make the necessary position corrections.
Position Management > Maintenance > PMIS Position Modify > Budget
Verify that the TRS Status field is set to 5 - Retired for retirees. If the TRS status is incorrect, there is a possibility that the status will be incorrect (TRS-eligible) when the employee is moved to the current year payroll.
Log on to the current year.
Payroll > Reports > User Created Reports
Generate a user-created report to identify the employees who begin their new contract in July. It is possible that the employees are inactive in the current year, be sure that the Active Employees Only field is not selected.
❏ Prepare a list of new hires as a supplement to this list. Sort by the Payoff Date to verify that all employees who have a June payoff date have the same date. For example, it is possible that an employee has a payoff date that is a day before or after the actual June payoff date.
❏ Generate a user-created report again to verify that all of the data is accurate. Filter the report using your LEA's June payoff date (YYYYMMDD).
Print or save the report.
Log on to the next year.
Prior to setting up and performing salary simulations, review the Position Management: Salary Simulations Overview guide for a description of the Salary Simulation pages and samples of the available simulation reports.
Position Management > Utilities > Salary Simulation > Simulation Options
❏ Complete the following:
❏ Click Save.
❏ Click Execute. Review the Simulation Process Error Listing and correct any errors prior to continuing the process.
If necessary, continue making corrections and running the simulation until all of the salary amounts are correct.
❏ Run the final simulation. This process updates the included state step, pay step, and salary amount in the next year PMIS for all 12-month positions and clears the Accept Changes field.
Log on to the next year.
Payroll > Next Year > Copy Next Year Tables
❏ In the School Calendar field, select only the 12-month employee calendars.
TIP: The calendar code is displayed in the first pay date code on the simulation (e.g., J40 includes calendar code 40).
❏ Click Execute.
Note: If changes were made to the next year payroll tables (extra duty pay, hourly/daily salary, job code, local annual salary, etc.), copy the tables from the next year payroll to the current year payroll.
Log on to the current year.
Payroll > Reports > User Created Reports
Generate a user-created report with the Hrs Per Day field selected. This field is overwritten when positions are moved from the next year to the current year.
Log on to the next year.
Position Management > Utilities > Move Forecast to CYR Position and Payroll
This process is used to move payroll and position forecast records to the current year PMIS with the same information that is set up in the next year PMIS records.
It also updates fields on the following Maintenance tabs: Employment Info, Pay Info, Job Info, Distribution
The Accept Changes field must be cleared when moving position records from forecast to current; otherwise, position records cannot be moved. The Accept Changes field is cleared after running a simulation with the Update Forecast field set to Yes. Similarly, you cannot run a simulation for positions without the Accept Changes field selected.
❏ Click Execute to execute the process. The following reports are available:
Error Message | Description |
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Warning: The employee has Contract Balance amounts not equal to zero for current jobs. | The employee has not been paid off by payroll. |
Failure: Position Accept Changes Flag set to Y | The position will not be moved to the current/payroll. |
Failure: Emp Nbr must have one position declared as primary. | The error does not necessarily reference the Primary Job field on the position. If an employee has a regular position and a supplement position, but there is an error that causes the primary position to fail, this message often indicates that there is only a supplement position to be moved. It is recommended to review and correct any errors that begin below this message about primary positions. After making those corrections, run the process again. This may resolve the primary job errors. This error also occurs when calendars have not been copied to the current year. |
Warning: Emp Nbr has multiple supplement positions for the same job; however, one or more of the following do not match: Campus ID, Dept, TRS Status Code, FTE Units, Incr Elig, Max Paymts, FICA Elig, Unemp Elig, EEOC, Workers Comp, Supplement Extra Days or Category Cd. The values from lowest Supplement Position Number/Billet may be used if new rows are inserted for the Pay Info and Job Info tabs. | This error indicates that the fields on the Payroll > Tables > Salaries > Extra Duty tab do not match those selected on a supplemental position. Use the Position Management > Inquiry > PMIS Staff Inquiry to determine the Position Number and Billet for any supplemental positions for the employee. Then, use the Position Management > Maintenance > PMIS Supplement Modify page to retrieve the position and billet and compare the fields on the position to the Payroll > Tables > Salary > Extra Duty tab for the extra duty number on the supplement. For example, in some cases the W/C code on the position may not match the W/C code on the table. Or, the Exp 373 field on the position may be selected, but the Exp 373 on the table for that extra duty code may not be selected. Either the table or the position needs to be updated so that they both match. If changes are made to the Extra Duty table, it is necessary to move the table to the current year payroll before proceeding. |
❏ Click Generate Reports. The selected reports are displayed. Review the report.
❏ Click Continue to view the next report. Or, click Return to return to the report selection page.
❏ After reviewing all of the reports and correcting all errors, return to the report selection page and click Process to move the forecast records to the current year. You are prompted to create a backup.
After the process is completed, the actual update is performed. If the update is successful, a message is displayed indicating that the move forecast updates were processed successfully.
Reminder: If fund/fiscal year(s) were added to Finance based on the error report listing, they should be deleted at this point.
❏ Click Cancel to return to the Move Forecast to CYR Position and Payroll page without moving the forecast records to the current year.
If corrections are processed, repeat this step.
Generate and save each report. Compare the Update CYR Positions From Forecast report to the user-created report that was previously generated to confirm that all 12-month employees are included. The last two reports contain the same information; one is sorted by employee name and the other by campus ID. These reports reflect the existing salary in the current year payroll and the new salary, which overwrites the current year payroll amounts. Review the reports for accuracy.
Log on to the current year.
Verify the current year data to confirm that the salaries are correct. The following fields are updated:
Log on to the current year.
Payroll > Utilities > Mass Update > Employee
Skip this step if your LEA has a 7/1 fiscal year.
Mass update the fiscal year to the current school year for all employees.
Select Fiscal Year and type the current year fiscal year. Before processing, stop to consider if the LEA uses other fiscal years in the account codes for employees. If the entered year is not the only used fiscal year, additional parameters may need to be selected.
Contact your regional ESC consultant if you need assistance.
Identify those employees with a June payoff date and mass update the Hrs Per Day field.
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