Payroll
Policy
FIACCT 11-15_00 Payroll – Honorariums
Effective: January 1, 1996
Revised: March 9, 2017
Reviewed: March 10, 2017
Purpose
To define the State’s policy for honorariums received by employees for speaking engagements and other consultative services.
Definitions
Honorarium
A voluntary payment made for services where no fee is legally required.
Policy
A. A state employee who chooses to use accrued leave while researching, planning, and preparing for a speaking engagement and while speaking, and who chooses to travel at his/her own expense shall be entitled to retain the amount of the honorarium he/she is granted for speaking or for rendering consultative services.
B. A state employee who chooses NOT to use accrued leave while researching, planning, and preparing for a speaking engagement and while speaking, and who chooses NOT to travel at his/her own expense shall remit the amount of the honorarium he/she is granted for speaking or for rendering consultative services to the finance staff of the department in which he/she is employed.
The department shall deposit these funds with the State Treasurer as a refund of expenditures in the unit where the employee’s salary is recorded.