Below you will find several important pieces of information regarding the Payroll Clarity Project. As a reminder, our move in January to Positive Pay and a biweekly pay cycle will impact all employees. Please make sure to read all of the information being shared about this payroll change.

Planning Tools

Pay Transition Calculators are here!

As promised, we have some tools to help you with planning for the upcoming payroll changes. Continue reading →

Now that Open Enrollment is open, you may be wondering how your benefit selections tie into the Payroll Clarity Project. Although the employee premium rates for medical and dental benefits are not changing in 2022, the deductions will look a little different as we transition to a Positive Pay model. Take a look at the following video presentation for more details on how this transition will impact your benefit deductions: Continue reading →

Attention All Employees! Your annual benefits Open Enrollment window is open now through November 12. Open Enrollment is your ONE time of year to make any changes you wish to your current medical or dental elections. You can add/drop/change a plan or add/drop dependents. It’s also the one time of year when you can enroll in a medical or dependent care FSA (Flexible Spending Account). Plus, it’s always a good idea to log in to your personal Open Enrollment site annually to verify your plan elections and confirm other information about yourself and your covered dependents. Continue reading →

The Payroll Clarity Project Team knows that many of you have questions about our upcoming transition to Positive Pay, and we would like to hear them! We have created a Payroll Clarity Project Questions Google Form that employees can use to submit up to three questions about the project. We will gather your questions and use them to update the Frequently Asked Questions on Finance & Budget’s Payroll Clarity Project web page. We will also address many of your questions during our informational sessions in the coming weeks. Continue reading →

In this week’s look at the Payroll Clarity Project, we will examine how the project will impact our employees individually and provide some suggestions on how to prepare for the transition. To learn more about how the Payroll Clarity Project will impact you, please select the appropriate employee category below and click to watch the corresponding screencast: Continue reading →

As we announced in a September 2 Compass post, Albemarle County and Albemarle County Public Schools will be moving to a bi-weekly pay schedule in January 2022. The goal of the Payroll Clarity Project team is to assist all of our employees through this transition as best we can. We recognize that this is a big change that will impact all of our employees differently. This is why, from now until at least the end of January, we will be sharing information with you through the Compass about the changes that are coming and the resources that are available to help you plan for this shift. It is incredibly important that you pay attention to these messages to be ready for the payroll change.

This week, we are covering the basics of the Payroll Clarity Project: What exactly is changing? We aim to help our employees understand the basics of the project so that it’s easier to plan for the future. Continue reading →