An employees paycheck ought to be issued on payday. Paychecks are normally made available every two weeks because there are two paydays per month the 10th and the 25th. If payday happens to fall on a Saturday or any other holiday, then employees get paid on Friday or the previous day, respectively. If payday falls on a Sunday, on the other hand, then payment will be made the Monday after. If that Monday happens to be a holiday, then paychecks are delivered the previous Friday.

Paychecks are distributed by the payroll or personnel departments. Paychecks will not be mailed to ones home address by the payroll office. One can make special arrangements for checks to be home delivered.

There are certain procedures associated with paycheck receipt, called payroll coordinator procedures, for payroll officials to keep in mind. Check registers have to be picked up from the payroll office two days before payday. On payday, the employee check advice register can be taken from the payroll office. The employee check advice register has to be signed by the employee at time of receiving the check. In case the employee does not claim the check within a certain period and after a conscientious effort to find them, the checks will be returned to the payroll office with a label that says unable to locate employee.

The payroll official or any other agent from a campus department who comes to pick up paychecks must have on them the payroll pick-up authorization card specific to that department. This piece of ID is presently also known as a green card.

There are certain regulations governing paydays. The way paydays are scheduled depends on WAC 82-50-021. But for exemption under the requirements of WAC 82-50-031, the wages of all state officers and employees are paid in a deferred, semi-monthly fashion for the twice-monthly pay periods as established in RCW 42. 16.010(1)