Comments on: Important Update on Salary Increase Program

By: 7m

7m — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:20:55 +0000

I’m loving what you are doing with it. It’s blocked at work (yup, day job); thank god (Steve Jobs, if you ask him) for my IPhone.

By: Jess Isler

Jess Isler — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:02:25 +0000

Great–thank you, Tim!

By: Tim Spears

Tim Spears — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:39:32 +0000

Jess,

Thanks for the follow up on the questions posed above. I haven’t been ignoring these questions–just trying to clarify when news about the salary increase pool will be shared.

On that front, I think we can do better than June 12. We’re aiming to get an email out by the end of the week, and it will come from Patrick.

By: Jess Isler

Jess Isler — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:34:08 +0000

For anyone checking this space for an answer to the above questions about the timing of the announcement for the salary increase pool, I’ll share Drew Macan’s response to my own question on the matter:

“I expect that the announcement about the salary pool will go out by mid-month (last year, I think it was around June 12th). The communication comes from Vice President for Finance and Treasurer Patrick Norton, and I know that he has it in his plans.”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:30:04 +0000

When can the College staff expect an announcement on the 7/1 salary increases?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 May 2011 17:18:11 +0000

Following the Trustee meetings last weekend, is there any news you can share regarding the rates for the July 1 staff salary increase amounts?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 May 2011 13:09:46 +0000

A belated thanks for this decision. Capping salaries would have been a strong incentive for some of our best mid-level employees to seek employment at our peer colleges with traditional salary plans, since mid-career is a perfect time to advance elsewhere. You can’t wait until you hit or near a cap because age and salary level at that point work against you. Staff above the midpoint are already giving up some salary increase for the benefit of all, so this adjustment seems fair and it is a huge boost to morale for long-time, dedicated employees. Thank you for recognizing that the small extra redistribution of money would have been counterproductive in so many ways.

By: Arabella Holzapfel

Arabella Holzapfel — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:27:16 +0000

Thank you! The decision to not cap salaries is very welcome news and I thank you, the SRC, and anyone else involved for coming to it.

I am curious about the expectations of the upcoming Mercer study. When you say “refine the salary structure itself”, could that entail adding more bands and levels if Mercer feels that too many positions are clustered together when they shouldn’t be? Or is the expectation more to keep the current structure and perhaps reassign positions within it, if necessary? Or is it a possibility to completely revamp it in some way?