National Payroll Branch

GSA's National Payroll Branch (NPB) provides a number of administrative tools for client agencies and employees. GSA has been a cross-service provider of payroll services for over 30 years. It provides a full range of payroll services for over 25,000 employees, which includes GSA and more than 30 independent agencies or presidential commissions.

GSA has experience in serving agencies with quasi-government employees and has the ability to handle unique payroll conditions, based on client-agency charters. It has been recognized as a leader in using innovative systems that timely implements legislatively and regulatory directed employee benefit programs.

GSA's payroll services include processing of all transactions affecting an employee's entire service life--from initial hire through final payment at separation and submission of retirement records to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). GSA also provides customers with quick, accurate, and real-time information regarding their pay accounts. Employees of client agencies even have the choice of viewing their Electronic Pay and Leave Statement online.

As part of the President's Management Agenda (PMA), President Bush's E-Government initiative on payroll consolidates federal payroll processing from 22 down to four agencies. On January 15, 2003, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced that GSA was selected as one of the final payroll providers. To date, the GSA National Payroll Branch has completed the migration of our e-Payroll customers on the GSA's Payroll, Accounting and Reporting (PAR) system. The second goal of the e-Payroll initiative is to provide a governance process that provides e-Payroll policies and procedures that are issued uniformly, in a timely manner and are easy to understand and administer. Reducing the 22 payroll providers down to the four approved providers has created a more manageable framework to identify inconsistencies in payroll policies and procedures. The GSA NPB continues to be an active participant in OPM's e-Payroll Standardization Working Group.

AGENCIES SERVED BY GSA NPB

  • American Battle Monuments Commission
  • Antitrust Modernization Commission
  • Appraisal Subcommittee/Federal Financial Institutions Exam Council
  • Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
  • Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation
  • Citizens' Health Care Working Group
  • Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad
  • Committee For Purchase From People Who are Blind or Severely Disabled
  • Delta Regional Authority Commission
  • District of Columbia - Court of Appeals
  • District of Columbia - Courts System
  • Election Assistance Commission
  • Export/Import Bank of the United States
  • General Services Administration
  • Helping to Enhance the Livelihood of People around the Globe Commission
  • Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission
  • John C. Stennis Center for Public Service
  • John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts
  • Marine Mammal Commission
  • Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
  • Morris K. Udall Scholarship & Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation
  • National Archives & Records Administration
  • National Council on Disability
  • National Credit Union Administration
  • National Mediation Board
  • Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
  • Office of Personnel Management
  • Public Interest Declassification Board
  • Railroad Retirement Board
  • Superior Courts of the District of Columbia
  • U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission
  • U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
  • U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • U.S. Institute of Peace
  • U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
  • Vietnam Education Foundation
Last Reviewed 1/16/2009