UPB - PARIS Prior Underpayment Adjustment (PUA) Quick Guide for Monthly Academic Employees

This quick guide charts adjustment reasons and earn code options for Academic Professional employees who are salaried and paid on a monthly basis.

Adjustments for monthly academic employees use adjustment earn codes.

PUA Quick Guide for MN Academic Employees

Adjustment Reason
+ Job Aid

Description

Earnings Codes

Additional Time Worked

FLSA Overtime Adjustment

MN employees considered "salaried non-exempt" needing to report FLSA overtime (process on HA job).

0% FTE adjustments

  • ADD – Adjust Dollar Amount
  • ADA – Administrative Increment
  • OPS – FLSA-Time & Half Overtime (full-time)
  • OPT – FLSA-PT Add'l Work Hours Paid (part-time)

No Time Reported

Fellowship PUA

Foreign Sourced Income

Adjustments for missed pay due to backdated job change that require no Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) tracking (APH) to be reported.

  • Fellowship
  • Foreign Sourced Income (FSI). 
  • AFD – Adjust Fellowship Dollars (GB and PC only)
  • FSI – Foreign Sourced Income
Job Change

Employee was paid incorrectly because of a backdated job change. Adjustments are needed that require no Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) tracking (APH) to be reported.

  • Rate increases
  • Deferred payouts (DP job)
  • Unpaid days
  • ADD – Adjust Dollar Amount
  • Allowances and stipends – (MIN, AUT, etc.)
Late Job Posting

Employee was not paid because a new job posted in Banner too late for payroll calculation.

Monthly Academic adjustments using ADD will automatically calculate and default APH for Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) tracking.

  • ADD – Adjust Dollar Amount
  • ADG – Adjust Dollar Amount - GEO (GA)
Benefit Payout

Payment of accrued benefits such as vacation, compensable sick, compensatory time, negotiated payout, etc. (usually for a separation or group change).

  • ATS – Sick Terminal Benefits Pay Out
  • ATV – Vacation Terminal Benefits Pay Out
  • Compensatory Time
    • PCM – Pay Out – Comp Time 1.5 x
    • PCD – Pay Out – Comp Time Double
    • PCS – Pay Out – Comp Time Straight
  • VCC – Vacation Transfer Conversion Balances
Deceased Employee

Adjustment needed for final payment and reporting for a deceased employee.

  • SB1 – Survivor Benefits – Current Year Death – Sick
  • SB2 – Survivor Benefits – Current Year Death – Vacation
  • SB3 – Survivor Benefits – Current Year Death – Regular Pay
  • SB4 – Survivor Benefits – Prior Year Death – Sick
  • SB5 – Survivor Benefits – Prior Year Death – Vacation
  • SB6 – Survivor Benefits – Prior Year Death – Regular Pay
Union Retro Pay Increase

The union negotiated retroactive pay increase was not included on the retro file load.

  • RP0 – Retro Pay
  • RP1 – Retro Pay
  • RP2 – Retro Pay
  • RP3 – Retro Pay
  • RP4 – Retro Pay
  • RP5 – Retro Pay
  • RP6 – Retro Pay
  • RP7 – Retro Pay
  • RP8 – Retro Pay
  • RP9 – Lump Sum – No SURS (HR use only)
  • RPA – Retro Pay
  • RPB – Retro Pay
  • RPD – Retro Pay – Differential

Agreements/Settlements

Relocation Assistance

Union/legal decisions requiring adjustment of payroll.

  • Relocation assistance one-time moving payment.
    NOTE: Requires signed legal agreement/offer letter
  • ADD – Adjust Dollars
  • ADO – Adjust Dollars Other (BW SA, HG, and EH only)
  • SAP – Supplemental/Agreement Payment – No SURS

 

  • REL – Relocation Payment



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Doc ID:
164635
Owned by:
Don S. in UI Training Hub
Created:
2026-10-06
Updated:
2026-11-13
Sites:
University of Illinois Training Hub