SFUSD Payroll Snafus Still Abound, Despite $20 Million New Payroll System

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/08/12/sfusd-payroll-snafus-still-abound-despite-20-million-new-payroll-system/The new school year is looking at a terrible start for SF teachers and school employees who might actually hope to get paid on time, as the district’s new $20 million payroll system is botching and missing paychecks right out of the gate.   For the last three years, most of the stories we heard about the San Francisco Unified School District that weren’t about school board recalls or forcing superintendents to resign were stories about a pricey payroll system called EMPower that routinely failed to actually pay people. The district threw millions of dollars at trying to fix the system which was still leaving educators without their paychecks, at one p