Going Up

From the Bruin: The UC Office of the President and UCLA Chancellor Gene Block approved a 4.6% raise for Academic Senate faculty. UCOP and the chancellor’s office evaluate the budget annually and decide whether to implement raises for the coming academic year. UCOP is responsible for determining faculty salary scales, and the chancellor’s office is responsible for allocating salaries for faculty members who are above the upper bound of the scale, said Andrea Kasko, the chair of the UCLA Academic Senate. The UCLA-specific 4.6% increase applies to ladder-ranked faculty members with salaries above the standard scale, the Academic Personnel Office said in an emailed statement. The 2023-2024 academic year raises will go into effect Oct. 1.

Faculty pay scales do not vary much across campus, but many faculty members also earn varying higher salaries than set by the scale, said Kasko, who is also a bioengineering professor. The increase will also apply to Health Sciences Compensation Plan faculty, Kasko added. UC staff employees also received a 4.6% salary increase, which went into effect July 1, according to a letter from UC President Michael Drake. However, this raise does not apply to unionized staff employees, whose wages are determined by collective bargaining agreements, Drake added in the announcement. Non-senate faculty members also will not receive the raise since they are typically part of a union that negotiates their salaries separately, Kasko added in an emailed statement.

Senate faculty members with salaries above the pay scale needed to complete the UC Preventing Harassment and Discrimination training course to be eligible for the raise, Kasko said, adding that this is the first time a requirement like this has been implemented. The course had to be completed by Sept. 1 to receive the raise by Oct. 1, according to the announcement by Vice Chancellor of Academic Personnel Michael Levine. Faculty members who complete the course after Oct. 1 would receive the raise starting on the date they completed the course, the announcement added. Block implemented the raise for above-scale faculty members in response to the increasing cost of living in Los Angeles, the chancellor’s office said in an emailed statement...

Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2023/09/30/uc-office-of-the-president-and-gene-block-approve-academic-senate-faculty-raise.