Wyo. Stat. § 9-3-101

This is the official text of Wyo. Stat. § 9-3-101, part of Wyoming’s Wyoming Statutes — the complete compiled statutory law of Wyoming, organized into 40+ numbered titles by subject.

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Salaries; amount; date of payment

Official statutory text

(a) Salaries for clerk of the supreme court and district court reporters shall be determined by the supreme court as authorized by legislative appropriations. Subject to constitutional limitations the following state officers and

members of the judiciary shall receive the salaries indicated by the figures following their respective titles:

(i) Governor $140,000.00;

(ii) Secretary of state $125,000.00;

(iii) State auditor $125,000.00;

(iv) State treasurer $125,000.00;

(v) Superintendent of public instruction

$125,000.00.

(vi) Repealed by Laws 1988, ch. 96, § 2.

(vii) Repealed by Laws 1988, ch. 96, § 3.

(b) When a state officer is required to simultaneously serve in his office as a temporary or acting replacement for another officer, he shall receive only the salary of the office he holds.

(c) Except as otherwise provided by law, other state employees and officers, including members of boards and commissions, shall receive salaries in amounts as provided by W.S. 9-2-1005(b)(iv) and 27-5-101.

(d) Except for employees paid hourly, or by hard copy payroll check, as determined by the state auditor's office, overtime and shift differential pay and employees and officers of the University of Wyoming, state employees and officers on automatic payroll direct deposit shall be paid on the last working day of the month for wages earned during that month. Hourly pay shall be paid to state employees on automatic payroll direct deposit on the last working day of the month for wages earned from the sixteenth day of the preceding month through the fifteenth day of the current month. Overtime and shift differential pay shall be paid to state employees on automatic payroll direct deposit no later than the last working day of the month following the month in which overtime and shift differential pay was earned. Employees and officers paid by hard copy payroll check shall have their payroll check mailed and post marked not later than the last working day of the month. The University of Wyoming is exempt from this subsection.

(e) The state auditor and payroll officers for employees of the department of transportation, the University of Wyoming and community colleges may establish payroll check-off programs for state employees under which payments to third-parties are made directly from deductions from state employee payroll payments for supplemental medical plans, disability plans, life insurance plans and annuities. The state auditor and other payroll officers authorized to establish a payroll check-off program may impose an initial fee of up to one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500.00) for each deduction filed upon a third-party for which check-off payments are established and thereafter, may impose an annual fee of two dollars ($2.00) per enrolled employee. The state auditor and other payroll officers authorized to establish a payroll check-off program may establish rules and regulations to implement the program.

(f) Notwithstanding the time limits required by W.S. 27-4-104(a), upon termination of employment, a state employee or officer shall be paid all wages and salaries due for work performed prior to termination on or before the next regular day upon which he would have received the pay if still employed.

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