Office of Internal Communications
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July 22, 2004 University of Houston faculty and staff raises have been set for fiscal year 2005. Thanks to a pool of funds created by UH for FY2005, faculty and staff salaries will increase by an average of 2.25 percent. Jerald Strickland, UH interim senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, will administer faculty merit and equity salary raises for benefits-eligible ranked faculty, clinical faculty, visiting faculty and lecturers using a salary pool of $1.7 million. An additional $231,000 has been allotted for faculty promotions and tenure raises. “We are pleased to be able to identify $1.9 million for the faculty,” Strickland said. “We only wish we had greater flexibility in order to address the merit, equity and compression salary issues facing the UH faculty. We will work on this again in FY2006.” For staff members, a $1.3 million fund pool will be distributed across the board and administered by the UH Budget Office. Staff members eligible for this increase must have been employed by UH for six months by Sept. 1. Faculty and staff members whose salaries and wages are paid with non-state-appropriated funds—such as research grants—also are expected to receive salary increases. These raises would not be drawn from the faculty or staff pools, but instead would be funded by locally identified resources. Salary increases will be effective Sept. 1. Faculty and staff members paid monthly will see the increase on their Oct. 1 paychecks while employees paid on a biweekly basis will see it reflected in their first paychecks of the September pay cycle. Mike Emery |