CREDITABLE SERVICE
Creditable state service affects your vacation leave earning rate, longevity pay, service award
eligibility, and total state service for retirement.
By authority of the State Personnel Act, credit shall be given for full-time and part-time
(regularly scheduled for 20 hours or more per week), permanent, probationary, trainee and/or
time-limited employment with any state or local agency from one of the following in North
Carolina:
1. Any state agency
2. Public school system of North Carolina
3. Community College System
4. Administrative Office of the Courts
5. Local social services (except Wake County as of 12/6/96)
6. Local mental health (except Wake County as of 12/6/96)
7. Local public health (except Wake County as of 12/6/96 and Cabarrus County as of
7/1/98)
8. County agriculture extension service (Except Wake County as of 12/6/96)
9. General Assembly (credit for both permanent and temporary service for General
Assembly employees, but no credit for legislative intern program and pages)
NON-CREDITABLE SERVICE
Credit shall not be given for:
1. Temporary service (except General Assembly employees)
2. Out-of-state service
3. Federal employment
4. City employment
5. County employment
6. Sheriff’s Department
7. Police Department
Time while on leave without pay (except for military service and workers’ compensation
8.
leave)
9. Legislative interns and pages
Important Note on Retroactive Adjustments:
If the employee fails to produce evidence of prior service at the time of employment and later
produces such evidence, it creates a cumbersome, time-consuming process to adjust leave
records. When this occurs, credit will be allowed for the service and the earnings rate will be
adjusted; however, retroactive adjustments will only be allowed for the previous twelve months.
Exceptions will be made only if the agency is at fault or fails to properly detect prior service
identified as creditable on this form.
Form 1A