Coming Soon: Annual Base Salary Collection Period

This year’s collection period for your cooperative’s annual base salary data referred to as “November 15 salary data” runs from September 4 to October 12.

Use the Employee Benefits website’s November 15 Base Salaries event to report your co-op’s annual base salary data and job classification information.

The information you submit will affect the 2019 billing for your NRECA salary-based group and/or Retirement Security (RS) Plan benefits. Submitting your data on time will help ensure accurate annual enrollment elections, January billing and RS Plan projections and payments.

What is annual base salary?
Annual base salary is an employee’s hourly rate of pay as of November 15, multiplied by the number of hours that he or she would regularly work in 2019.

Annual base salary is compensation that includes:

• Employee pre-tax contributions to a 401(k) plan
• Qualified salary reduction arrangements under Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC)
• Elective amounts not included in gross income by reason of IRC Section 132(f)
• Pre-tax contributions to Section 457(b) deferred compensation programs (tax-exempt systems only)
• After-tax contributions, including Roth elective deferrals, are also included but counted as taxable income

NRECA sent an email to primary benefits administrators on August 17 with more information on submitting salary information.

Validate Your Job Classifications
Before you submit your job classification data, NRECA is asking you to verify that your employees’ job classifications in your co-op’s HR system and records align with NRECA’s job classifications to ensure your employees receive relevant targeted communications from NRECA and accurate information is provided for the National Compensation System.

To view a list of your cooperative’s current job positions, follow these steps: cooperative.com > select the drop-down menu next to your name > My Co-op: Data Tools > Update Individual Data. You can download an employee file that contains job classifications of your employees that NRECA has on record. This is the file that you will need to compare to your co-op’s HR job classification records. To obtain a listing of all job positions (and their descriptions), download the NRECA Job Classification List. Access the employee file and classification list through the Job Classification: Job Classification List and Employee File link.

You may need to consult other resources at your co-op to verify that your employees are classified accurately and make corrections in your HR records. We also ask that you take this opportunity to provide a specific job position for employees who currently have an unknown position (i.e., 00-0000) or those who have incomplete job positions (e.g., 21-0000, 21-0100, etc.).

If you have any questions, contact the Member Contact Center at 866.673.2299 or contactcenter@nreca.coop.