Compensation –Faculty

(Article XII)

Salary Minimums: Minimum salaries for faculty on 9 or 12-month appointments are as follows:

Hiring Rate: The Administration can pay salaries above the minimum when it deems it essential for the maintenance or improvement of the academic quality of the unit. Salaries in most departments are above these minimums. The department chair reviews all hiring rates with the elected faculty Salary Committee (see page 2, under “Selective Raises”) or, when a quorum of the committee cannot be assembled, with available members of the committee. In those units in which there are too few tenured faculty members to form a committee, the chair reviews the hiring rates with the tenured faculty members.

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Annual Raises: Faculty who were on the payroll the last day of the previous winter term are eligible for raises averaging 3.25%, as outlined below. Across-the Board (ATB) and Selective Salary increases take effect the first day of the fall term. Please note this is typically delayed a pay-period or two and granted retroactively. The administration reports this is due to the increased volume of payroll record processing at the beginning of the academic year.

Across-the-Board Raises: All eligible faculty will receive annual raises of 2.0% applied up to a cap as per the following table.

The administration can raise individual salaries more than this minimum when it deems it essential for the academic quality of the unit, after prior review with members of the elected Salary Committee. Such above-minimum raises will not diminish the pay or the salary pool of other represented employees.
 
Selective Raises. The President, through the deans/directors, shall make additional selective raises from a pool averaging 0% of the total salaries of eligible members of the bargaining unit. Recommendations for distribution of this selective pool shall be made by an elected Salary Committee in each department. The Salary Committee will consist of no fewer than three tenured members of the Tenure and Promotion Committee of that unit elected by its faculty, and at least half the committee shall consist of tenured members. The chairperson (or a designee) shall chair the committee with vote. In those units with too few tenured faculty members to form a committee, the chair reviews salary raises with the tenured faculty members. These recommendations are then sent to the dean/director, who reviews them with an elected school/college-wide faculty committee before sending his/her own recommendations to the Provost.
 
Selective salary raises shall be distributed according to a formula based equally on accomplishments in scholarship and in teaching, with secondary consideration given to service to the community and the university (including the union). The committee can also consider equity in its recommendations for selective salary raises.

Promotional Raises. Each faculty member who is promoted to a higher rank shall receive an adjustment in salary rate of $1,500 $3,000 or $6,000 for promotion to Group I - Assistant Professor, Senior Lecturer, Group II - Associate Professor, or Group III - Professor, effective the date of promotion. 

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