Overview
UCPath is the University of California's human resources, academic personnel, benefits, and payroll system for all UC employees systemwide. UCPath assists the Payroll Office in ensuring that all UCSF employees are paid in a timely and accurate manner that complies with State, Federal and University of California procedures and regulations, and that all payroll and benefit expenses are properly recorded in the University’s accounting systems.
Key Topics
Payroll expense/expenditure transactions are not conducted via financial journal.
- Campus department Funding Entry Initiators and Approvers use UCPath to indicate how to distribute costs for earnings and benefit expenses.
- Campus department Salary Cost Transfer Initiators and Approvers use UCPath to make corrections to payroll expenses recorded in the Distribution of Payroll Expense Report.
Financial administrators use MyReports to view financial and human resources data. Not all payroll transactions are recorded on the MyReports Distribution of Payroll Expense (DPE) Report; see the job aid, Understanding UCPath Payroll Transactions on the TDR and DPE Reports for more details.
Review the topics below for guidance on specific business procedures.
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UCSF Employer Contribution Rates for Employee Benefits
UCSF assesses departments and funds directly for the employer share of certain employee benefit expenses.
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GASB47 - Assigning Description of Service (DOS) Codes to Voluntary and Involuntary Termination Benefits
This guide provides information to help departments assign Description of Service codes to termination benefits.
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Clearing Salary and Benefit Expenses in Payroll Suspense
This guide outlines the steps to move payroll transactions that post to the suspense account.
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Understanding Biweekly Payroll Accruals
This guide explains the biweekly payroll accrual process in greater detail, including how to identify biweekly payroll accrual transactions within financial reports.
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Understanding Prior Period Leave Redistribution for Monthly Paid Employees
This guide provides an overview of the UCPath prior period leave redistribution process for monthly paid employees.
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Understanding Department Default and Catch-All Funding Sources
This guide describes default funding sources, including why and when each is used during payroll processing.