357-28-010

Who adopts the compensation plan?

357-28-015

How is the compensation plan prepared and revised?

357-28-020

What must the compensation plan include?

Special Pay Ranges

357-28-025

Can the director adopt special pay salary ranges?

357-28-026

For what reasons may the director adopt special pay ranges and/or compensation practices for institutions of higher education and related boards?

357-28-027

How long will higher education special pay ranges remain in effect?

357-28-028

By whom and for what reasons may a higher education special pay request be submitted to the director?

357-28-029

When making a special pay request for higher education, what information must the requesting party provide department of personnel staff?

Setting Base Salary

357-28-030

Must employers have a salary determination policy?

357-28-035

What must be addressed in the employer's salary determination policy?

357-28-040

Can an employee's base salary be set above the maximum of the salary range?

357-28-045

How is part-time employment compensated?

Periodic Increment Increases (PID)

357-28-050

What is the periodic increment date (PID)?

357-28-055

How is the periodic increment date determined for a general government employee?

357-28-056

How is the periodic increment date determined for a higher education employee?

357-28-060

When does an employee receive an increment increase?

357-28-065

What are the effective dates of increment increases?

357-28-070

Can an employer adjust the timing and amount of increment increases?

357-28-075

Can an employer accelerate or defer increment increases based on performance?

357-28-080

How does an employee allocated to a class with a special pay salary range progress through the range?

Increases for Recruitment and/or Retention

357-28-090

Can an employer adjust an employee's base salary within the employee's current salary range for recruitment, retention, or other business related reasons?

357-28-095

Can an employer authorize additional pay to support recruitment and/or retention of a position?

357-28-100

When must an employer receive director approval to authorize additional pay to support recruitment or retention of an incumbent or candidate for a position?

Changing Base Salary

357-28-110

Must an employee who is promoted to a position in a class with a higher salary range receive a salary increase?

357-28-115

Must an employee occupying a position that is reallocated to a class with a higher salary range receive a salary increase?

357-28-120

What is the base salary of an employee occupying a position that is reallocated to a class with the same or lower salary range?

357-28-125

How is an employee's base salary affected when the employee's position is allocated to a new class as a result of the director taking action to implement the new classification plan as required by WAC 357-10-010(1)?

357-28-130

How is an employee's base salary determined if the director creates, abolishes, or revises a class after the initial implementation of the classification plan?

357-28-135

How is an employee's salary determined when the employee is appointed to a position due to a layoff action?

357-28-140

How is an employee's salary determined upon transfer?

357-28-145

How is an employee's salary determined upon reassignment?

357-28-150

How is an employee's salary determined upon reversion?

357-28-155

How is an employee's salary determined upon demotion?

357-28-160

How is an employee's salary determined upon elevation?

357-28-165

When an exempt position is converted to classified, how is the base salary of the incumbent determined?

Adding Premiums to Base Salary

Assignment Pay

357-28-175

What is assignment pay?

357-28-180

When may employers authorize assignment pay?

Call Back Pay

357-28-185

What is the requirement for employers to compensate employees for being called back to work?

Shift & Holiday Premium

357-28-190

When must an employee receive shift premium?

357-28-195

What general government positions must be paid supplemental shift premium?

357-28-200

When must an employee receive holiday premium pay?

Standby Pay

357-28-205

When must an employee receive standby pay?

357-28-210

What is the rate of compensation for standby pay?

Hours of Work & Flex-Time

357-28-220

How are hours of work established for employees?

357-28-225

Are employers required to develop flexible time schedules?

357-28-230

Can an employer assign or reassign an employee to a flex-time schedule?

357-28-235

Can an employee request assignment to a flex-time schedule?

Overtime

357-28-240

Must employers assign an overtime eligibility designation to each position?

357-28-245

Is approval required when a general government employer changes a position's overtime eligibility designation?

357-28-250

Must employers inform employees whether they are eligible to receive overtime compensation or not?

357-28-252

Under what conditions can the employer change an overtime eligible employee's assigned hours?

357-28-255

What constitutes overtime for an overtime eligible employee?

357-28-260

At what rate must overtime be compensated?

357-28-265

For the purpose of computing eligibility for overtime compensation, are holidays and leave with pay considered time worked?

Compensatory Time

357-28-275

When may compensatory time off be granted in lieu of pay?

357-28-280

When may compensatory time off be used?

357-28-285

When must compensatory time be paid in cash?

Performance Recognition Pay

357-28-295

Who may provide performance recognition pay to employees?

357-28-300

Is there a limit to the amount an employee can receive for performance recognition pay?

Relocation Compensation

357-28-310

When can an employee receive relocation compensation?

357-28-315

What would cause an employee to be required to pay back the relocation payment?

357-28-320

Must the employer develop written criteria for relocation compensation?

Salary Survey

357-28-325

When will salary surveys be done?