Bonuses for state employees in NC will arrive in time for the holidays
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story included teachers in the group getting the bonus in their Dec. 21 paycheck, but it is up to local school units when to distribute the bonuses between now and Jan. 31.
State employees will get a holiday gift from the government this month: $1,000 bonuses in their December paychecks.
The bonuses will arrive in the paychecks of tens of thousands of state workers on the first day of winter: Dec. 21.
All permanent public school employees are also eligible for the $1,000 bonuses, and have to be paid by Jan. 31, 2022, a Department of Public Instruction spokesperson told The News & Observer on Monday. But when that bonus appears in their paychecks between now and the end of January is up to each individual public school unit, according to DPI.
The bonuses are part of the state budget passed by the General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Roy Cooper before Thanksgiving. Workers who are eligible to receive the bonuses are full-time state employees and local education employees.
Retroactive raises and additional bonuses for some state workers are still in the works, according to the Office of State Human Resources.
Jill Warren Lucas, spokesperson for the Office of State Human Resources, said because of the early payroll deadline due to the holidays, checks will be issued on Dec. 21 for both employees who are paid monthly and those paid bi-monthly.
A House Republican staffer told reporters the day the budget passed that January is the goal for all the raises and bonuses to show up in paychecks. So the $1,000 bonuses just in time for Christmas are, well, a bonus.
For more information, visit oshr.nc.gov.
This story was originally published December 3, 2021 at 2:48 PM.
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