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Payroll and Workday HCM Approval Deadline Calendar

Last updated Monday, January 8, 2024

View/Download the 2024 Calendar

Select the above button to view or download a print-friendly PDF of the 2024 Payroll and Workday Approval Deadline Calendars; the 2023 calendar (PDF) remains available for reference.

The information presented on the calendar is also available in an accessible, tabular format – expand the below menu to view/download.

The below table can be downloaded as an accessible and print-friendly PDF.

Pay Period Payroll Calculation Window Additional Pay Request Deadline (1pm) and
Campus Approval Deadline (5pm)
Timesheet Approval and Costing Allocation Deadlines (9pm) Payday Pay Period Hours
Dec 16-31, 2023 Dec 23, 2023 – Jan 4, 2024 Dec 31 2023 Jan 4, 2024 Jan 10, 2024 80
Jan 1-15 Jan 11 – 19 Jan 15 Jan 19 Jan 25 88
Jan 16-31 Jan 26 – Feb 5 Jan 31 Feb 5 Feb 9 96
Feb 1-15 Feb 10 -20 Feb 15 Feb 20 Feb 26 88
Feb 16-29 Feb 27 – Mar 5 Feb 29 Mar 5 Mar 11 80
Mar 1-15 Mar 12-19 Mar 15 Mar 19 Mar 25 88
Mar 16-31 Mar 26 – Apr 4 Mar 31 Apr  4 Apr 10 80
Apr 1-15 Apr 11-19 Apr 15 Apr 19 Apr 25 88
Apr 16-30 Apr 26 – May 6 Apr 30 May 6 May 10 88
May 1-15 May 11-20 May 15 May 20 May 24 88
May 16-31 May 25 – June 4 May 31 June 4 June 10 96
June 1-15 June 11-20 June 15 June 20 June 25 80
June 16-30 June 26 – July 3 June 30 July 3 July 10 80
July 1-15 July 11-19 July 15 July 19 July 25 88
July 16-31 July 26 – Aug 5 July 31 Aug 5 Aug 9 96
Aug 1-15 Aug 10-20 Aug 15 Aug 20 Aug 26 88
Aug 16-31 Aug 27 – Sept 4 Aug 31 Sept 4 Sept 10 88
Sept 1-15 Sept 11-19 Sept 15 Sept 19 Sept 25 80
Sept 16-30 Sept 26 – Oct 4 Sept 30 Oct 4 Oct 10 88
Oct 1-15 Oct 11-21 Oct 15 Oct 21 Oct 25 88
Oct 16-31 Oct 26 – Nov 4 Oct 31 Nov 4 Nov 8 96
Nov 1-15 Nov 9-19 Nov 15 Nov 19 Nov 25 88
Nov 16-30 Nov 26 – Dec 4 Nov 30 Dec 4 Dec 10 80
Dec 1-15 Dec 11-18 Dec 15 Dec 18 Dec 24 80
Dec 16-31, 2024 Dec 25, 2024– Jan 6, 2025 Dec 31 Jan 6, 2025 Jan 10, 2025 96

The below table can be downloaded as an accessible and print-friendly PDF.

Pay Period Payroll Calculation Window Additional Pay Request Deadline (1pm) and
Campus Approval Deadline (5pm)
Timesheet Approval and Costing Allocation Deadlines (9pm) Payday Pay Period Hours
Dec 16-31, 2022 Dec 28, 2022 – Jan 4, 2023 Dec 30, 2022 Jan 4, 2023 Jan 10, 2023 88
Jan 1-15 Jan 11 – 19 Jan 15 Jan 19 Jan 25 80
Jan 16-31 Jan 26 – Feb 6 Jan 31 Feb 6 Feb 10 96
Feb 1-15 Feb 11 -17 Feb 15 Feb 17 Feb 24 88
Feb 16-28 Feb 25 – Mar 6 Feb 28 Mar 6 Mar 10 72
Mar 1-15 Mar 11-20 Mar 15 Mar 20 Mar 24 88
Mar 16-31 Mar 25 – Apr 4 Mar 31 Apr 4 Apr 10 96
Apr 1-15 Apr 11-19 Apr 15 Apr 19 Apr 25 80
Apr 16-30 Apr 26 – May 4 Apr 30 May 4 May 10 80
May 1-15 May 11-19 May 15 May 19 May 25 88
May 16-31 May 26 – June 5 May 31 June 5 June 9 96
June 1-15 June 10-20 June 15 June 20 June 26 88
June 16-30 June 23 – July 3 June 25* July 3 July 10 88
July 1-15 July 11-19 July 15 July 19 July 25 80
July 16-31 July 26 – Aug 4 July 31 Aug 4 Aug 10 88
Aug 1-15 Aug 11-21 Aug 15 Aug 21 Aug 25 88
Aug 16-31 Aug 26 – Sept 5 Aug 31 Sept 5 Sept 11 96
Sept 1-15 Sept 12-19 Sept 15 Sept 19 Sept 25 88
Sept 16-30 Sept 26 – Oct 3 Sept 30 Oct 3 Oct 10 80
Oct 1-15 Oct 11-19 Oct 15 Oct 19 Oct 25 80
Oct 16-31 Oct 26 – Nov 3 Oct 31 Nov 3 Nov 9 96
Nov 1-15 Nov 10-17 Nov 15 Nov 17 Nov 22 88
Nov 16-30 Nov 23 – Dec 5 Nov 30 Dec 5 Dec 11 88
Dec 1-15 Dec 12-19 Dec 15 Dec 19 Dec 22 88
Dec 16-31 Dec 23, 2023– Jan 4, 2024 Dec 31 Jan 4, 2024 Jan 10, 2024 80

*Early Deadline – please plan accordingly!

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Understanding Deadlines on the Calendar

Unit-Level Best Practices

The below menus provide some of the best advice we’ve heard from our campus partners about how best to plan for the deadlines and, in the process, help ensure that your employees are paid correctly and on time.

We’ve heard from several units who have successfully reduced pay-impacting errors and even sped up approval times by setting their own internal HCM and payroll deadlines – usually several days in advance of ISC deadlines – in order to confirm that all their HCM and payroll transactions are submitted and approved in a timely fashion.

If your unit doesn’t already have their own internal deadlines, you may wish to take a moment to look through your unit’s processes and workflows to calculate how long it takes for any given transaction to be entered and routed through your own department for approvals. For instance, if it regularly takes three business days for a Change Job to be entered and approved within your unit, you may wish to require that all Change Jobs are entered at least three days prior to the Campus Approval Deadline. Or, in order to give your unit administrators enough time to validate time and leave entries – and follow up with any employees as necessary – you may wish to require that certain reports (such as R0207, R0521, R0500 or R0365 to name a few) are run on a weekly or even daily basis.

Different transactions could take more or less time to enter and approve, so you may wish to set several internal deadlines as necessary.

Many units regularly send out reminder emails to employees and administrators about such time-sensitive requirements as:

  • Upcoming deadlines: For example, units often send “Submit Timesheets,” “Approve Timesheets” and “Did you Enter Your Holiday Taken Time Off?” reminder emails several days before the Timesheet Approval Deadline, to help ensure all timesheets and approvals are accurate and completed in time for payroll processing.
  • Which reports they should run to determine if any outstanding actions might be pending: For example, units can send “Start Running R0321 and End/Extend End Dates as Necessary” reminder emails several days before the Payroll Calculation Window opens to identify which fixed-term or temporary employees have upcoming Employment End Dates and need to be extended or terminated. Fun Fact: Encouraging administrators to run R0321 each pay period and taking the corresponding action in Workday can reduce approximately 65% of all payroll errors alone!

Of course, each unit is unique in how they wish to send reminders, and which communication channels work best – in addition to email reminders, we’ve also heard that some departments add tasks and reminders to Outlook calendars, post reminders on Teams or Slack or other messaging platforms, and many also regularly include payroll-impacting reminders in their weekly team huddles.

In addition to running R0321 prior to the Payroll Calculation Window each pay period, one of the most important times to be running audit reports to help prevent payroll errors and ensure your employees are paid correctly and on time is the period between the Campus Approval Deadline and the Timesheet Approval Deadline. For a comprehensive list of the reports your unit should be running each pay period, who should be running them, and when, make sure to see our Payroll-Impacting Reports by Deadline page. During the Payroll Calculation Window, we especially recommend units incorporate the following reports into their workflows:

Deadline Meanings

Deadline Calendar Icon Meaning
Paydays Dollar sign The days on which employees receive their paychecks. More information
UW/Bank Holidays Fully-shaded (yellow) square Payroll-impacting deadlines may occasionally fall on a holiday. More information
Additional Pay Request Deadline
-AND-
Campus Approval Deadline
Triangle/Exclamation point
  • All underpayment, overpayment, and payroll deduction requests, as well as any paperwork for Foreign National employees, must be submitted to the ISC no later than 1:00 pm PST. More information
  • All review/approval steps in Workday that take place before the ISC’s review step(s) should be completed by this day. The transaction must be in the ISC’s queue no later than 5:00 pm PST. More information
Timesheet Approval Deadline
-AND-
Costing Allocation Deadline
Clock
  • All employee timesheets and absence requests must be submitted AND approved in Workday no later than 9:00 pm PST on this day in order to be processed and paid on the next payday. More information
  • All costing allocation changes should be entered and approved by 9:00 pm PST on this day.
Payroll Calculation Window Partially-shaded (green) squares/bar Payroll calculations are performed by the ISC. Units should run Earnings and Actuals reports and other payroll-impacting reports during this time. More information

Legacy Color-Coded Deadlines

For historical reference, the following table described the deadlines that appeared on previous years’ color-coded Payroll and HCM Transaction Deadlines/Calendar.

Deadline Legacy Color-Coding Meaning
Paydays Green The days on which employees receive their paychecks.
Bank/UW Holidays Yellow Payroll-impacting deadlines may occasionally fall on a holiday. Remember to complete any pay-related transactions in Workday before your holiday absence.
“Switch Primary Job” Window Opens Blue The first day on which “Switch Primary Job” requests can be accepted or made by the ISC for the current pay period.
“Switch Primary Job” Window Closes Orange The last day on which “Switch Primary Job” requests can be accepted or made by the ISC for the current pay period.
HCM Transaction Deadline Purple All review/approval steps in Workday that take place before the ISC’s review step(s) should be completed by this day. The transaction must be in the ISC’s queue no later than 5:00 pm PST.
Additional Pay Request Deadline Light Blue All underpayment, overpayment, and payroll deduction requests, as well as any paperwork for Foreign National employees, must be submitted to the ISC no later than 1:00 pm PST.
Time & Absence Transaction Deadline Red All employee timesheets and absence requests must be submitted AND approved in Workday no later than 9:00 pm PST on this day in order to be processed and paid on the next payday.
Payroll Processing Gray Final payroll calculations are completed by the ISC.