Employee's Guide: How to Request Annual Leave
The User Interface has been updated to reflect the system updated effective 6/1/26
LOGIN TO MYPACK PORTAL
Navigate to MyPack Portal (http://mypack.ncsu.edu) using a web browser.
Select the NC State Students/Faculty/Staff Campus affiliation.
Enter your Unity ID and Password when prompted to login to MyPack portal
1. Navigate to the Employee Self Service Homepage
Upon successful login to MyPack Portal, if you do not land on the Employee Self Services homepage, select the Employee Self Service option from the dropdown menu in the top left corner of the banner
2. Navigate to and click on the WolfTime tile
This will open the WolfTime module within Employee Self Service
3. Navigate to and click on the Manage Absences tile
The Manage Absences section will provide options to view and submit absence requests.
REVIEW ABSENCE BALANCES AND HOLIDAY CALENDAR
4. Review your Annual Leave balances from the "Balances" section on the right of the page.
In the example below, the employee has 272.57 Hours of Annual/Vacation Leave available.
This page also displays the Holiday schedule for the next few months.
You can also view the last 3 absences before submitting a new request.
SUBMIT ANNUAL LEAVE REQUEST - NON EXEMPT EMPLOYEES
5. Create a New Request - Nonexempt
Navigate to the section labeled "Create a New Request" to create a new annual absence request.
Use the calendar widget and select the "Start Date" of the request
In the example, an FLSA-Nonexempt employee submits an Annual absence for a 6 hour partial day.
6. Select Start Date
Example: Start Date selected = April 27, 2026
7. Select End Date of the request
Start and End dates should be the same if the leave request only spans a single day.
Clicking the "+1 Day" button will update the end date by a calendar day.
REMEMBER:
Absences must be submitted one week at a time (Saturday to Friday), not to exceed your standard work week.
To request absences spanning over a week, submit multiple requests, one for each week.
Unless leave was used for a weekend day, leave requests should never be submitted for weekends.
8. Select Annual Leave or Comp as the Absence Name
The Absence Name dropdown will display a list of leave options the employee is eligible for. Select Annual Leave or Comp.
9. Click on Apply Absence
10. Current View
Clicking Apply Absence will open up more of the absence request page to submit the details of the absence request.
11. Select Annual or Comp as the Reason
12. Click on Partial Days Option
To submit a Partial Day of Leave, click on the Partial Days Option.
13. Select Start Day Only from Partial Days
A Partial Days pop-up will allow you to submit the request as a Partial Day. To submit a single day of partial leave, select Start Day Only from the drop down menu.
14. Enter Partial Day Hours
When submitting a partial day of leave, submit the number of hours for the leave request as the Duration of the request.
15. Click on Done
16. Add Comments
Provide comments for your supervisor in the Comments text box.
17. Click on View Eligibility and Forecast
18. Eligibility
Once the forecasting calculation is complete, a system message displays eligibility. Click OK to confirm eligibility.
If you have enough leave balance to cover this absence request, the forecast results are “ELIGIBLE.”
If you do not have enough leave balance to cover this absence request, the forecast results are “INELIGIBLE”
It will also state whether or not comp time will be used to cover all or a portion of the request.
Note: Available Comp hours are always used before Annual hours
19. Click on Submit
Click the Submit button to submit the absence request for supervisor approval
The Save for Later button will save the request for the employee to view and submit later.
It will NOT submit the request for approval.
If the Saved request is not submitted or deleted, it will impact future balance forecasts.
20. Click Yes
Select Yes in the pop-up confirmation box to submit the leave request or No to go back to the unsubmitted request.
SUBMIT ANNUAL LEAVE REQUEST - EXEMPT EMPLOYEES
21. Navigate to the section labeled "Create a New Request" to create a new annual absence request. Use the calendar widget and select the "Start Date" of the request
In the example, an FLSA-exempt employee submits an Annual absence for two consecutive days.
22. Example: Start Date selected = Select April 23, 2026
23. Select End Date of the request
Start and End dates should be the same if the leave request only spans a single day.
Clicking the "+1 Day" button will update the end date by a calendar day.
REMEMBER:
Absences must be submitted one week at a time (Saturday to Friday), not to exceed your standard work week.
To request absences spanning over a week, submit multiple requests, one for each week.
Unless leave was used for a weekend day, leave requests should never be submitted for weekends.
24. Click on the Absence Name dropdown to select the type of absence request
The Absence Name dropdown will display a list of leave options the employee is eligible for.
25. Select Annual Leave or Comp as the Absence Name
26. Click on Apply Absence
27. Select Annual or Comp from *Reason
28. Enter the number of hours leave was taken
This example shows an FLSA-exempt employee taking two days (16 hours) of Annual leave.
29. Provide comments for your supervisor in the Comments text box.
30. Click on View Eligibility and Forecast
31. Review Eligibility Status and click on OK.
Once the forecasting calculation is complete, a system message displays eligibility. Click OK to confirm eligibility.
If you have enough leave balance to cover this absence request, the forecast results are “ELIGIBLE.”
If you do not have enough leave balance to cover this absence request, the forecast results are “INELIGIBLE”
32. Click on Submit
Click the Submit button to submit the absence request for supervisor approval
The Save for Later button will save the request for the employee to view and submit later.
It will NOT submit the request for approval.
If the Saved request is not submitted or deleted, it will impact future balance forecasts.
33. Select Yes in the pop-up confirmation box to submit the leave request.
REVIEW ABSENCE
34. Once the leave request is submitted, users will be navigated to the Manage Absences page.
The newly submitted absence request will be displayed in the list of recently submitted absences at the top of the Manage Absences page.
35. To view the leave request, users can click on the View Absence option from the options menu (3 vertical dots)
36. While reviewing the absence, users can view the list of approvers in the approval workflow by selecting the Approval Chain item
37. Leave requests are routed to the employee's supervisor, hence the Approval Chain will display the supervisor details.
38. To view the contact details of the Approver, click on Approver Information.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
39. Once submitted, the absence request will be sent to your Supervisor for approval.
Absence balances will be updated on the day AFTER the absence request has been Approved.
Future-dated absences: Absence balances will be updated at the start of the month of the absence.