(Article 17)
Your base salary is comprised of two parts. One part is a CDI. The other part is Special Increase.
A Career Development Increase or CDI is an automatic annual salary increase given in recognition of added experience, ability and scope of responsibilities on July 1 of every year until you have received all of the CDIs allowed for your rank.
A Special increase is a salary increase awarded for meritorious work. Special increases can be awarded for excellence in teaching, research, scholarly or artistic work, practice of professional skills, extra University work or public service, or administrative work. Special Increases may also be awarded for improving academic qualifications or to individuals who have demonstrated excellence in performance of their assigned duties or who, in the view of the salary committee, have demonstrated significant improvement or development. The award of a special increase may be based on accumulated performance over a number of years or work performed in the year immediately prior to the year of review.
There is a limited amount of money available for the award of special increases. The amount is based on CDI’s at the full professor level. For 2010-11 there are 210 CDIs shared among the colleges in proportion to the number of in-scope faculty members in the college and there are 40 CDIs available for award by the President’s Review Committee. In 2011-12 and 2012-13 there will be 755 shared among Department and College Salary Committees (378), CRCs (302) and PRC (75). In subsequent years, that number will be reduced to 600 – 300 to Department and College Salary Committees, (240) to CRCs and 60 to PRC.
Two-thirds of the total number of Special Increases awarded must be a full Special Increase. An individual may receive up to a maximum of 3 Special Increases per year.
Each year you will be provided with a copy of your salary history form by the head of your academic unit who will also meet with you to advise you of the standards for salary recommendations.
For 2010-11 departments and colleges decide by secret ballot if they will have a salary review committee. If they decide not to have a committee, the Department Head, or Dean, will carry out the work of the Committee.
The department committee makes recommendations for special increases to the College Review Committee, which decides who will receive a special increase of either one-half or one full Special Increase. The College Review Committee may also apply to the President’s Review Committee for additional special increases for faculty who have been awarded a full Special Increase by the College Review Committee and who may merit an additional award.
Beginning in 2011-12 Departments and non-departmentalized Colleges will have the ability to award special increases. There will no longer be the option to decide whether or not to have a Salary Review Committee. They are required. Salary review committees consist of the Department Head or Dean as chair and a minimum of 3 employees holding probationary, tenured, continuing status or multi-year term appointments if there is at least one year remaining in the term of the appointment. If a Department or College is unable to constitute a committee with the minimum number of members, the committee will consist of all eligible employees.
No. The process while similar is not the same. The significant difference is that non-departmentalized colleges do not involve the College Review Committee.
Department Salary Committees are responsible for proposing standards for salary review for the Department and communicating those standards to all employees in the Department. The Committee receives, reviews and ranks employee submissions and awards either one-half or one full Special Increase.
Department Salary Committees submit their decisions, and reasons for those decisions, to the College Review Committee along with recommendations for additional Special Increases and recommendations for the award of merit if the Committee has insufficient funds for its awards.
Department Heads have their own salary committee which follows this process.
The CRC only has a role in salary review procedures in departmentalized colleges. It receives departmental standards for salary review, reviews those standards and uses them for the basis of fair and equitable standards of performance for the entire College. The CRC is responsible for receiving departmental decisions for the award of merit and reviewing them only for consistency and appropriateness. It cannot revise departmental decisions and must communicate the results of its review of departmental decisions to the departmental salary committees.
The CRC reviews recommendations for additional special increases from Department Salary Committees and may award up to two special increases provided that the combined maximum award from a Department Salary Committee and the CRC is no more than 2 special increases for any individual. The CRC may recommend individuals to the President’s Review Committee for additional special increases if the individual has been already awarded more than one in the procedures underway.
A member of a salary committee whose own case is being considered will still participate but will be excluded from committee proceedings when their case is being considered.
You are reviewed for the work you performed in the last academic year, which ends on June 30th.. You need to provide information to your Department Head or Dean by September 1 to support your case for a special increase. By November 30th, your Department Head or Dean head should have met with you to discuss the department or college salary committee’s recommendation. Decisions should be made by January 31.
You may ask that you be reviewed for work performed over an accumulated period of time or a salary committee may choose to award salary increases for your work performed over an accumulated period of time.
Special increases are paid retroactive to July 1 of the year in which the review has taken place. For example if you were reviewed in the 2009-10 academic year for work performed in the 2008-09 academic year and were awarded a special increase. Your salary would increase by the amount of the special increase effective July 1, 2009.
You are entitled to appeal to the President’s Review Committee if you are denied a special increase or disagree with the decision of the College Review Committee as it affects you. Your dean may also appeal on your behalf. Appeals are to be submitted by February 28 and decisions on appeals are to be made by March 31.
The President’s Review Committee may award either one-half or one full special increase to individual employees for whom application has been made by their college or individual employees who have appealed or for whom the dean has appealed.