County auditor says new payroll system has teething problems but paychecks delivered

Harrison County’s auditor reported this morning that the county’s new payroll software went live and produced issues on the first run, though later pay distributions reached employees.

"We did go live our first payroll processing was this last payroll ... it was very cumbersome, uh, but we got through it," the auditor said, noting the initial import resulted in hundreds of errors that have since been resolved. The auditor said the first import had more than 800 errors, but the most recent run had six errors and that most employees received their pay by Friday. The auditor added that mapping of legacy data and cell‑phone location issues for deputies remain under active work.

Commissioners asked whether the problems were temporary growing pains. The auditor said the issues look temporary and staff have reduced manual data entry; department heads will still submit recap sheets for verification. The court did not take formal action on this report; it was presented as an administrative update.