Payroll

You have two options for receiving your pay from University of Southern Indiana (“USI”).  Direct Deposit or dashPayroll Card. Complete the form to select how you want to be paid. Click Here for form.

Questions? Contact USI.Payroll@usi.edu

The Payroll Department has posted the 2026 Payroll Schedule on their website. The schedule is useful to see pay periods and pay dates. Due dates for data to be submitted to Employment/HR such as Payroll Notifications and stipends for each pay period are also noted.

Employees on a 9 – or 10-month appointment may be paid in 20, 22, or 26 pays.  If no election is made prior to the employee’s appointment, the default pay method will be 20 or 22 pays, depending on the dates of the appointment period.

Pay dates that typically fall on a federal bank holiday will be paid on the previous business day; for example, Friday, December 25, 2026 is a Federal banking holiday and the pay date will be moved to Thursday, December 24, 2026. University holidays that are not also federal bank holidays will be paid on Fridays.

The Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") has released the updated Withholding Calculator for use by taxpayers in estimating the appropriate withholding for federal income taxes. The Withholding Calculator helps taxpayers estimate advisable adjustments for their Forms W-4 to address the recent changes to the tax code and withholding tables. It reflects, among other things, changes to tax brackets, itemized deductions, child tax credits, and dependent credits, along with the repeal of dependent exemptions.

Although it is advisable for all taxpayers to reexamine the amounts withheld from their paychecks each year, the IRS has identified the following individuals in particular as potentially benefiting from such review:

• Two-income families
• People with two or more jobs at the same time or who only work for part of the year
• People with children who claim credits such as the Child Tax Credit
• People who itemized deductions
• People with high incomes and more complex tax returns

The Withholding Calculator asks a taxpayer to estimate his or her income for the year and various tax credits and deductions to which the taxpayer might be entitled for the year. It returns the estimated federal income tax for the taxpayer and provides specific recommendations on how to revise the Form W-4 in order to have an appropriate amount withheld from the taxpayer's paychecks.
 
The Withholding Calculator and instructions from the IRS for using the Withholding Calculator are available here.  The updated, Form W-4 can be found here.

If you have additional questions about your withholding, consult your tax advisor.