Compensation – Lecturers

(Article XII)

Salary Minimums: Minimum salaries for lecturers and Sr. lecturers 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 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. 
 
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.

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Selective Raises: The President, through the deans/directors, shall make additional selective raises from the salary pool. Because of the austerity that is reflected in the present economic situation, the salary pool is small. It is generated from the spillover from those salaries that are above the salary cap that limits the level of salary to which the 2% across-the-board raise is applied. It is our aim that selective amounts comparable to past agreements will be returned to in future contracts.

An elected Salary Committee in each department shall make recommendations for distribution of this selective pool. The Salary Committee will consist of no fewer than three tenured members of the Tenure and Promotion Committee (see page 4) 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.

In making recommendations for selective salary increases, the Salary Committee shall give special consideration to the specific factors and criteria that apply to the assignments of non-tenure track faculty.

Promotional Raises: Each lecturer who is promoted to senior lecturer shall receive an adjustment in salary rate of $1,500 for promotion effective the date of promotion. 

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