It will cost up to $81.4 million to upgrade UW System’s aging payroll and benefits software system under a new estimate by System officials, an effort that has been marred in the past by cost overruns and failure.
UW System President Kevin Reilly will ask the Board of Regents next week to approve a multi-year plan to implement the project, which he said would allow the System to update a computer program that was first installed in 1975 and is at risk of breaking down.