The Knoxville School Board on Monday night passed a change to how hourly employees will be paid. Knoxville School District Business Manager Craig Mobley spoke with KNIA/KRLS News about why the district moved to this change.

“There really are two main factors for us. The first is to get the district better in line with what the Department of Labor and the Iowa code laws say about getting people paid promptly. The process will pay people directly from their timesheet for the prior pay period and get them paid as promptly as possible. The second part is just being able to use the systems we have in place for the payroll. This will eliminate some of the manual processes we have to go through on a monthly basis for many of our employees to reconcile their wages or their hours to come up with their pay for the month.”

Mobley talks about the difference between how payroll is done now and how it will be done under the new system.

“Really what we do now is we take a nine or ten-month employee and estimate the hours they will work and spread that out over 12 months. They are getting a paycheck for all 12 months but those checks are short of the actual number of hours they worked because it is spread out over a longer period. With Paid as Earned they will clock in and clock out each day and for that pay period they will get paid directly off of that timesheet.”

The change will be implemented in August of 2023 with employees seeing the change on their September 2023 check