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Payroll/Personnel System

NFC's Payroll/Personnel System (PPS) incorporates a fully-integrated online database which maintains employee personnel records and time and attendance reports, and processes a biweekly payroll for over 600,000 employees. Some of the specific PPS applications and processes are defined below.

The National Finance Center (NFC) manages an integrated suite of applications that form the core of its Payroll, Personnel, Time and Attendance, Financial Systems, and Government Insurance offerings. These applications run on two main computing platforms: (1) a mainframe and (2) a network of client/server machines, all of which are integrated as part of NFC’s comprehensive Enterprise Architecture.

Learn more about NFC Integrated Suite of Applications.

Last Updated / Reviewed: April 02, 2025