SUMMARY OF CONTROLLER'S PAYROLL FUNCTIONS - 8520

Per Government Code sections 12470-12481 and 16390-16395 and California Code of Regulations, Title 2, sections 633.7 and 633.8, the State Controller’s Office (SCO) is responsible in the administering of the Uniform State Payroll System.

The SCO’s Personnel and Payroll Services Division (PPSD) performs the following major functions:

• Audits, adjusts, and processes all personnel and payroll transactions for state civil service, exempt, state court, and California State University employees.
• Distributes payroll warrants to all state employees.
• Provides information and training required to manage the human resources of the state.
• Accounts for salary and wage expenditures.
• Provides data to the retirement systems for the calculation of employee retirement benefits.