One-time $1,000 state employee retention pay supplement
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
| TO: | UGA Faculty and Staff |
| FROM: | Jere W. Morehead, President S. Jack Hu, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Ryan Nesbit, Vice President for Finance and Administration Juanita Hicks, Senior Associate Vice President of Human Resources |
| RE: | One-time $1,000 state employee retention pay supplement |
Dear UGA Faculty and Staff,
On Dec. 18, 2023, Governor Brian Kemp and legislative leadership announced a one-time
$1,000 state employee retention pay supplement for K-12 educators, school support
staff and state employees, including the University System of Georgia (USG). Faculty
and staff eligible for the supplement are those in a regular, benefits-eligible status
working 30 or more standard hours as of Dec. 1, 2023, and are actively employed at
the time the payment is processed.
This supplemental retention payment will be paid on the last business day of the month,
Dec. 29, for all eligible bi-weekly and monthly employees. Please note that these
pay supplements will be automatically added to your paycheck. Any emails or other
messages asking employees to validate their pay or banking information to receive
this supplement are scams or fraud attempts and should be reported to the Office of
Information Security via email to abuse@uga.edu.
We are grateful to the Governor and legislative leadership for including USG employees
in this initiative. University Human Resources and Payroll staff are working now to
review and validate payroll data to process these payments, and we sincerely appreciate
their efforts as well.
Please feel free to contact University Human Resources at hrweb@uga.edu if you have any questions.
We appreciate all that you do on behalf of the University of Georgia and wish you
and your family a happy holiday season.