Columns:: Legislature approves merit-based salary raise pool of 3.25 percent

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Columns::April 22, 2002

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Legislature approves merit-based salary raise pool of 3.25 percent

By Chuck Toney
ctoney@uga.edu

University employees will be eligible for merit-based salary increases from a 3.25 percent salary pool approved by the General Assembly as it ended the 2002 session, one of the longest in recent history. In order to ensure a permanent minimum merit increase of $750 for each employee, UGA will allocate nearly $200,000 for employees whose salaries are less than $23,075.
Additionally, some $373,000 has been allocated to provide cost-of-employment increases for employees whose salaries are $55,000 or less. The cost-of-employment increases, which are permanent, are intended to offset the increase in parking rates, announced in February. Salary increases and the new parking rates are effective Oct. 1, 2002.
“We realize that the new parking rate structure may be a burden to some of UGA’s employees, but without state funds for auxiliary services, we have to make those budgets balance on their own,” says President Michael F. Adams. “At the time the new rates were proposed, the state budget was just being presented to the General Assembly and we did not know what resources would be available in our FY03 budget. Now that we have a better indication of the funding that will be available, I am pleased that we can allocate these funds to help offset the impact of the increase in parking rates.”
More than three-quarters of UGA’s employees will receive the cost-of-employment increase.
Employees whose annual salary is less than $40,000 will receive an increase of $120 (for employees who are paid on the fiscal year calendar) or $100 (for employees who are paid on the academic calendar). Those whose salaries fall in the $40,000-$55,000 range will receive increases of $60 (fiscal year) or $50 (academic year).
“We felt it was appropriate to redirect funds from other priorities and initiatives to assist employees at these salary levels,” says Hank Huckaby, senior vice president for finance and administration. “This has been a difficult process, but I am glad that we will be able to offer this assistance.”

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