Quicktime
Quicktime
The source for all information relating to Quicktime, the USGS Time and Attendance System.
Pay Tables
Salary Tables and Related Information (OPM Website)
Special Salary Rates (OPM Website)
Includes Special Rates for Information Technology Workers, Engineers, certain clerical employees, and more.
USGS Information
Direct Deposit
All DOI memo on the Department of Interior policy on Direct Deposit of payroll.
Employee Express (Employee Express Website)
The fast, easy way to for you to process certain personnel and payroll actions.
USGS Attendance and Leave Handbook
The Attendance and Leave Handbook supersedes the Alternative Work Schedule (AWS) Handbook, dated February 2000, and is the prevailing policy on attendance and leave to the extent that it does not conflict with any negotiated agreements for bargaining unit employees. This handbook establishes how hours of work may be assigned and managed and provides guidelines for granting and excusing leave.
Payroll Schedules
USGS employees are paid every two weeks on the second Tuesday of each pay period. Calendars from the USGS Finance Office tell you when each pay period begins and ends, as well as when to expect each pay day.
Leave and Earnings Statements (Employee Express Website)
Pay statements (otherwise known as Leave and Earnings Statements (LES)) are your personal records documenting your pay, deductions, leave usage, tax information, etc. Employee Express contains your current LES as well as LES's for up to a year in the past. If you need an LES that is not available in Employee Express you may request it by calling 303-969-7732.
Compensatory Time Off for Travel
Employees are eligible to earn compensatory time off for time spent in a travel status away from their official duty station when such time is not otherwise compensable.
Compensation Information from NBC
Payroll Operations Division Web Page at the National
Business Center (NBC). Here you can find
general information and answers to frequently asked questions about
pay and pay-related issues.
(You may also send your payroll questions via electronic mail
directly to
D2600HELP@NBC.GOV.)
Internal Revenue Service (IRS Website)
The source for all forms and
publications relating to Federal Income Tax.
IRS W-4 (PDF,
54K) (IRS Website)
The IRS Employee's Witholding Allowance Certificate...
used by all current USGS employees to claim the number of exemptions
for each calendar year.
IRS W-4P (PDF,
36K) (IRS Website)
The IRS Witholding Certificate for Pension
or Annuities... only useful for employees who are retiring this
year.
Circular E, Publication 15 (IRS Website)
IRS Publication on how to calculate
Federal Income Tax Withholding from pay. Use this publication to
calculate exactly how much your pay is effected when you change the
number of exemptions on your W-4.
Health Benefits
Tax Benefit (OPM Website)
Details on how taxable income is reduced by the amount of health insurance premiums withheld from pay.
Tax Withholding Formulas (NBC Website)
Federal, State and Territorial Income Tax Withholding Formulas
Compensation Information from OPM
OPM's Home Page on Compensation and Pay issues
