Compensatory Time Payments

Compensatory Time is hours of irregular or occasional overtime work for which the employee is required or has elected to take time off in lieu of receiving overtime pay. Compensatory time earned is recorded on the time and attendance report using TC 32, Compensatory Time Worked. Compensatory leave may be liquidated by the end of the leave year, carried to the following year, or paid in full, in accordance with Agency policy.

Compensatory leave payments are paid at the rate of overtime pay applicable at the time the work was performed. Payments must be charged to the current fiscal year appropriation regardless of the fiscal year in which the overtime work was performed. The system currently stores only the Title V rate. If employees need to be paid at the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) rate, a request for manual payment must be processed via the Special Payment Processing System (SPPS) or by submitting a Form AD-343, Payroll Action Request.

Compensatory leave data (including rates at which compensatory time was earned) can be viewed in IRIS Program IR139, Compensatory Leave and Rates, and TINQ Program 05, Comp Leave & Comp-Oth-Rt. TINQ is also used to correct any compensatory time discrepancies and zero out the compensatory time balance paid through EmpowHR.

This section will show how to enter Interim and Final Compensatory Time payments from Form, AD-581, Lump Sum Leave or Compensatory Time Payments.

Before beginning, the following information is needed:

• Type of payment (interim or final).
• Total number of compensatory time hours to be paid.
• Accounting data and number of hours to charge against each line of accounting data.

If the employee’s FLSA overtime rate is higher than the Title V overtime rate, enter the compensatory payment in SPPS.