STRS Per Pay Submissions 

There are two different ways to send the STRS Per Pay submission file to STRS. Choose one of the following options: 

1 - Generate the STRS Submission file and then upload the file using multiple steps.

• Click 'Create Submission File.'  This saves the file on your computer.
• Click 'Choose File' and browse to find the STRS.SEQ file.
• Click ' Submit Uploaded File to STRS.

2 - Generate the STRS Submission File and submit the file to STRS all in one step.

• Click 'Generate Submission File and Submit To STRS.'

Tax Estimator

This program proves helpful to employees wanting to know the impact of tax related changes on their pay amounts (e.g. changing exemptions or withholding amounts).

The employee can be found by entering either the SSN, ID or employee name in the Employee field.

Current payroll file data for employees can be called into the program or you can enter the data manually into the fields.  For new employee's, enter in the contract data, to calculate tax estimate.

Click here for more information on how to use Tax Estimator

Utilizing Mass Change to update Payroll Items

Mass Change can be used to update start and stop dates and rate's for Employee and Employer Amounts for the upcoming year:

• Under Core>Payroll Item, select Annuity Item or Regular Item
• Make sure that Rate and or Employer Rate are chosen under the More button
• Important: Use the Filter row to filter the data (i.e. Code, Dates, etc.) to ensure the data appearing on the screen is the data needing to be changed 
• Click on the Mass Change button.
• In Maintenance Mode, click on the Import Definition button and import any or all of the following scripts (Note: these scripts must be downloaded before you can import them):
  1. Employee Rate
  2. Employer Rate
  3. Employee/Employer Rate
• Under Load Definition,  select the script you wish to use to make the rate change.
• Update the “New Value” to the new rate amount.
• Click the Execution Mode option.
• Repeat if necessary if setup as different Payroll Item codes.

Note: Always remember to filter the data before every Mass Change process

Click here for more helpful Mass Change definitions.