Student Time Keeping

Student Time Keeping

The Student Payroll System will allow student employees to enter their schedule for the current monthly pay period. Their punch time can be entered online only after the student employee has been hired, completed onboarding documents and I-9 Form, and provided their Social Security Card to Human Resources CSC/Payroll. Timekeepers will play a key role in maintaining schedules and assisting student employees and management with the process.

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Student Assistant Pay Schedule

Student Employee Time Reporting Training

This training guide provides a general overview of the new online student timekeeping system, and can serve as a reference to help you navigate the system. Please feel free to reach out to the payroll team with any questions!

Student Employee Time Reporting Training Guide (PDF)

 

This job aid shows employees how to record payable time. This job aid is for entering Punch Time. With Punch Time, you enter the time each time you start and end working hours.

Other


Instructional Student Assistants (1150, 1151 and 1153) are represented by the UAW Collective Bargaining Agreement (Unit 11) and are eligible for jury duty compensation on the days that the student is scheduled to work.  Verification from the court must be submitted to the employer.

All other student assistants are not compensated for serving as a juror; therefore, they fulfill this civic duty on their own time.

Withholding (Taxes/Retirement)

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) excludes from social security and medicare coverage services performed by students employed by a college or university provided the student is enrolled at least half-time and regularly attending classes. To be excluded from social security and medicare taxes a student employee must be an undergraduate student enrolled in 6 units per term OR a graduate student enrolled in 3 units per term.

Student employees not meeting the enrollment requirement of 6 units (3 units for graduate students) are required to pay 7.5% of all earnings into a State-sponsored retirement plan (PST) in lieu of Social Security coverage. Student employees are also subject to medicare taxation, currently 1.45%, which is paid by both the student and the employing department. Student employees who are required to contribute to the state-sponsored PST retirement plan may request a refund of retirement contributions upon separation from university employment. Retirement contributions are subject to federal and state taxation at the time of withdrawal.

To request a PST refund or for further PST questions: