Compensation administration

The salary schedule used by union represented employees will be listed by the name of the union. Find the name of your union under the column for Union Represented employees and click on the link.

If you do not know if you are a union member, you should contact your agency’s human resources department.

A general wage adjustment is a pay adjustment given to state employees. This adjustment is authorized and funded by the state legislature. This amount may vary, based on your union representation and the amount that was bargained for your behalf. The final amount is subject to legislative approval.

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is a Federal law which establishes minimum wage, overtime pay eligibility, recordkeeping, and child labor standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments.

The Washington Minimum Wage Act is the state law that establishes the state’s minimum wage, overtime pay eligibility, paid sick leave provisions and protection from retaliation and discrimination. The WMWA requirements can be found under 49.46 RCW.

Overtime pay is available to all employees in overtime eligible positions who work in excess of 40 hours in a work week. Time absent from work for vacation, holiday (holidays do count), sick, or other paid leave is not counted as time worked for the purpose of computing overtime hours. Employees in overtime eligible positions must obtain supervisory approval prior to working overtime.

Each state position is assigned a Work Period Designation by their agency’s Human Resource representative of either “Overtime Eligible” or “Overtime Exempt.”  These positions are covered under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime regulations.