Talon
What's Changing
As Tennessee Tech transitions to Talon, moving away from Banner, we're excited to streamline processes, enhance data security, and improve user experiences across the university, ensuring we stay at the forefront of operational excellence. The “What’s Changing” section will be used to highlight changes to systems, processes, and applications as the Talon project moves forward.
Pay Frequency
The Business Office is excited to share payroll changes coming with Talon, Tennessee Techs’ new Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP) that will replace Banner Finance and HR in January 2026.
In response to the campus-wide survey conducted in early 2024, we are excited to transition to a bi-weekly payroll for all students, graduate assistants, temporary employees, and clerical and staff employees! Pay will be issued every two weeks based on reported hours worked. With this comes more frequent pay, shorter wait times for retro pay or start of pay, and a predictable pay schedule.
Faculty and administrative employees will stay on a monthly payroll. However, the payroll cutoff for entry items will be moved to the 25th of the month, instead of the 15th of the month. Pay will still occur at the end of the month, but with a shorter period for variance, payroll changes and entry items will be easier to capture.
We will have the ability to process and pay a separate payroll outside the normal schedule. Employees will no longer be asked to wait for the next monthly payroll for significant payroll items outside of the normal pay schedule.
Payroll dashboards will be at your fingertips to see your personal payroll information, as well as, for those employees you approve time for or budgets you manage.
Download Payroll Biweekly Schedule with salary calculator example
This is a link to an Excel spreadsheet that can be used to calculate your bi-weekly pay and compare it to the monthly pay schedule. To use this, input your salary in the green shaded cell, and the calculations will automatically be generated.
FAQs for pay frequency
Can I opt out of bi-weekly pay and stay on a monthly pay frequency?
System configuration in addition to tax requirements will not allow hourly employees to opt out of the bi-weekly payroll schedule.
If I am an exempt or salaried faculty or staff member, can I switch to bi-weekly pay?
System configuration in addition to tax requirements will not allow exempt employees to be paid on a bi-weekly pay frequency.
How many pay periods will there be in a year?
A bi-weekly pay frequency will be based on 26 pay periods in a year. The payroll schedule for 2026 is still being finalized and will be shared when it is completed.
