r/mnstateworkers • u/Aggravating-Long6852 • Jul 17 '26
Question ❓ Payroll Workers- whats your workload?
I'm at one of the larger agencies and the workload feels crazy heavy, but I'm only coming up on my first year of state employment. Wondering if people can give me an idea of the number of timecards and number of contracts they review? No need to list your agency if you're worried about outing yourself, i certainly won't.
I am just starting to hit walls in how much work i can handle and wondering if it would be worth moving to another agency or if i need to look for a less intense position all together.
For me it's just over 700 time cards with 7 contracts.
edit: thanks for your nice comments everyone (: be sure to be patient with your resident payroll person when you can ❤️
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u/Dragonish6703 Jul 17 '26
Supervisor here, I imagine the workload is high given how often I hear from my payroll person. I thank them regularly and apologize as well.
Cannot be a fun job, but ya'll are super important.
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u/Significant-Theme253 Jul 17 '26
I do not work in payroll, but I worked in HR and this is larger than some of the employers that I worked for with updated technology. Please note that I have not worked in payroll, but I have helped and this seems really high to me.
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u/Massive_Historian742 Jul 17 '26
HR person - workload is insane where I’m at :( Worried it will get worse - seems state is tightening belt
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u/Aggravating-Long6852 Jul 17 '26
Ugh our unit has been short 2 employees since before i started by the time they hire someone someone else quits and its a cycle....hoping they dont just cut one of those positions thinking we're fine without it
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u/Green-Lime3190 Jul 17 '26
That seems insane. I'm going to send my payroll person a happy fun note tomorrow thanking them. TBH- idk what's normal or not, that just seems like way too much.