The following message was sent to CLA faculty and P&A employees. Based on your requests for clarity around next year's compensation, we created an informative message to assist individuals in understanding the complicated compensation plan for the coming year. We hope this will help, and we ask that you encourage all faculty and P&A employees in your unit to carefully read this and any other information related to this year's compensation.
Thank you, Offices of CLA Human Resources and the Associate Dean for Faculty.
2010/11 Salary Information
Date: 8 June 2010
To: CLA Faculty and Academic Staff
From: James A. Parente, Jr., Dean, and Richa Nagar, Associate Dean for Faculty
RE: 2010/11 Salary Information
We write to provide you with information about the salaries of faculty and academic staff in the College of Liberal Arts during the 2010/11 fiscal year, and to provide information about the delivery of salary increases for FY11. This communication addresses several key matters which will impact salaries in the coming year, including the temporary reduction in pay, the delivery of merit increases, promotional increases for faculty and academic staff, and the 27th pay period. Salary decisions will be communicated to faculty and academic staff by chairs/directors of academic units, or by other appropriate unit heads or supervisors.
This message is intended for faculty and academic professional and administrative (P/A) staff. Faculty include tenured faculty, tenure-track faculty, annually renewable contract faculty, and visiting faculty. P/A staff include instructional, professional, and administrative positions such as lecturers and teaching specialists, advisors, coordinators, and education specialists, research associates, program directors, and others.
Temporary Reduction in Pay
The University has declared a state of financial stringency under Section 4.5 of the Board of Regents Policy on Faculty Tenure. Under this state of financial stringency, the salaries of faculty and academic staff during 2010/11 will be subject to a 1.15% temporary reduction in pay, as provided by the University's 2010/11 Academic Salary Memo. The temporary reduction in pay takes effect 7 June 2010, the first day of the first pay period of the 2010/11 fiscal year, and will be reflected in biweekly paychecks beginning 1 July 2010.
http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/toolkit/compensation/payplans/2010acad/index.html
The temporary reduction in pay applies to all types of pay faculty and academic staff may receive during 2010/11, including base salaries, recurring additions to base salaries (merit, retention and promotional increases), administrative augmentations and special awards delivered during the 2010/11 fiscal year, summer instructional or other summer appointments, and summer research support paid as salary. The temporary reduction in pay applies to all sources of funding from which pay is drawn, including internal and external sources, endowments, sponsored projects, etc.
The savings realized from the temporary reduction in pay will remain in the funding source. For salaries supported by external grants or fellowships, internal faculty research accounts, or endowments, the savings will remain with the grant or fellowship, faculty research account, or endowment, to be used for other appropriate purposes. For salaries supported by the college's central allocation or other collegiate resources, the savings will remain in the college, to assist in managing the college's overall budget during this challenging time.
Delivery of Merit Increases
To assist with the budget challenges facing the University, the delivery of recurring merit increases to base salaries of faculty and academic staff has been delayed until January 2011.
- Merit increases for faculty and academic staff on nine-month appointments (term B) take effect with the pay period beginning 31 January 2011.
- Merit increases for faculty and academic staff on nine-month appointments who receive their salary over twelve months (term BJ; 9-over-12) take effect with the pay period beginning 3 January 2011.
- Merit increases for faculty and academic staff on twelve-month appointments (term A) take effect with the pay period beginning 3 January 2011.
The varied implementation dates are necessary to ensure that faculty and academic staff receive a proportionate amount of the merit increase awarded to them, irrespective of the length of appointment or whether they have chosen to have their nine-month salary paid to them over the twelve-month fiscal year.
Promotional Increases
Faculty and academic staff promoted during 2009/10 will receive promotional increases to their base salaries for 2010/11, consistent with the Academic Salary Memo. Promotional increases are subject to the 1.15% temporary reduction in pay in effect for 2010/11.
- Promotional increases for faculty and academic staff on nine-month appointments (term B) take effect with the pay period beginning 30 August 2010.
- Promotional increases for faculty and academic staff on nine-month appointments who receive their salary over twelve months (term BJ; 9-over-12) take effect with the pay period beginning 7 June 2010.
- Promotional increases for faculty and academic staff on twelve-month appointments (term A) take effect with the pay period beginning 7 June 2010.
27th Pay Period
During the 2010/11 fiscal year there will be 27 pay periods instead of the typical 26. This is because there are 54 weeks in the University's 2010/11 payroll calendar (7 June 2010 to 19 June 2011). Faculty and academic staff who normally receive 26 paychecks will receive 27 paychecks in 2010/11.
- Faculty and academic staff on nine-month appointments who receive their salary over nine months (term B) will not be affected by the 27th pay period.
- Faculty and academic staff on nine-month appointments who receive their salary over twelve months (term BJ; 9-over-12) will have the pay for their nine-month appointment spread over 27 paychecks in the 2010/11 fiscal year. This means that the total pay for a nine-month appointment will not be impacted by the 27th pay period, but the amount of pay received on each paycheck will be less due to spreading the pay over 27 pay periods instead of 26.
- Faculty and academic staff on twelve-month appointments (term A) will receive 27 paychecks in the 2010/11 fiscal year because they are appointed and working for 54 weeks during 2010/11 (7 June 2010 to 19 June 2011). The appointments of twelve-month faculty and academic staff are extended by two weeks for 2010/11, and they will receive a 27th pay check for the additional two weeks of work
