Office of Human Resource Services

Shift differential is additional compensation paid at the discretion of vice presidents to non-exempt TEAMS and USPS employees who work during certain “premium” shifts, defined as follows:

Evening Shift
If four hours or more of an employee’s eight-hour shift are worked between 5 p.m. and 12 midnight, 5 percent will be added to the employee’s base rate of pay for that entire shift.

Night Shift
If four hours or more of an employee’s eight-hour shift are worked between 12 midnight and 6 a.m., 10 percent will be added to the employee’s base rate of pay for that entire shift.

Extended Shifts
If an employee works a shift that encompasses at least four hours in both the night and evening shifts (totaling eight hours or more), 10 percent will be added to the employee’s base rate of pay for the entire extended shift.

Shift differential is a pay additive and is considered part of an employee's regular rate of pay. As such, leaves with pay and holiday pay include the shift differential.

The following chart shows when shift differential should be paid. "PS" refers to the PeopleSoft system to be implemented June 18.

Payment of shift differential is accomplished through the time reporting codes (TRC) in the Time and Labor feature of PeopleSoft. For assistance in this process, please contact the Payroll Office at 392-1231.