Financial Affairs

Payroll Department Contacts

1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Mail Stop: Accounting
General Payroll Operations

▼General Contact Information

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▼Payroll Compliance & Reporting Team

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▼Payroll Administration & Timekeeping Team

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Payroll Department

Payroll Announcements

Payroll Announcements Archive

Feb42026: Planned Outage - Authentication Unavailable on Financial Affairs Website During Improvement Work: Fri 2/6 @ 10pm - Mon 2/9 @ 6am
The Financial Affairs website will be undergoing work to improve the authentication platform over the coming weekend. The website WILL be up and available, as will all primary system launch pages (CruzBuy, CruzPay, etc.), however users will NOT be able to authenticate for access to protected resources, such as DocuSign enabled web forms and the Entertainment Dashboard.

The authentication outage is limited to only the Financial Affairs website, and will be in effect from Friday evening at 10pm PST until Monday morning at 6am PST. Users attempting to authenticate during this outage window may encounter a system error page when attempting to sign in.

If you have questions about this outage, please contact our finaff-tech@ucsc.edu team.
Dec12025: New Look & Feel for All Financial Affairs Guides
Financial Affairs Guides have been redesigned! We've updated the look and feel to simplify navigation, enhance search and filtering, and create more space for comfortable reading.

This visual refresh improves the overall guide experience while keeping all content unchanged. Explore our redesigned guides through the Financial Affairs Guide Directory.

Please share any feedback on the new presentation with the Financial Affairs tech team.

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The Payroll Office's mission is to serve the University's diverse customer base, in collaboration with The UCPath Center, to provide accurate and timely compensation to all staff, faculty, and student employees in an efficient manner.

In serving our campus community, we monitor and maintain procedural integrity and compliance with Local, State, and Federal agencies, Collective Bargaining Agreements, University policies, and accounting accuracy.

Payroll Is Responsible For The Following Services

Administration of personnel actions and pay adjustments for staff and student employee records in UCPath
Position Management
Student employment facilitation
Timekeeping for all non-academic staff and student employees
Auditing of Payroll processing, tax and deductions
Policy and Labor Compliance
Payroll Reporting
Glacier Administration
SuperUser and Departmental Support