Academic Personnel
3 Percent Retirement Payment Salary Increases
for Faculty
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Guidelines and Timeline
On February 1, 2012, Vice President Paula Varnes Fussell announced a 3 percent retirement payment salary increase for eligible faculty.
To be eligible for the 3 percent increase, faculty must be hired on or before February 16, 2012, and must be currently contributing the 3 percent mandatory retirement contribution. Part-time employees, probationary employees, and employees on leave of absence are eligible for the 3 percent raise.
Eligible bargaining unit faculty may only receive an increase subject to union negotiations; therefore, additional communication will be sent if agreement is reached.
Funding
- For state-funded positions, the funding for faculty increases will be allocated based on filled positions using the Budget Prep System units completed in June 2011. The budget allocation for state-funded faculty positions will be provided to colleges and vice presidential areas by the UF Budget Office.
- Contract, grant, and auxiliary units are expected to fund all salary increases from existing sources.
Timeline
- February 20 (Monday), 8 a.m. – Raise File will be available to departments for reviewing faculty retirement payment salary increases. If changes to the Raise File are needed for employees (add, delete, or transfer faculty to a new department ID or change an FTE), please submit the request to 2012salaryincrease@ufl.edu. Departments that factored the 3 percent mandatory retirement contribution into the new faculty salary offer should exclude those faculty from the 3 percent retirement payment salary increase by submitting the request to the e-mail address above. All changes to the Raise File should be submitted to 2012salaryincrease@ufl.edu by 12 p.m. on Friday, February 24.
- February 24 (Friday), 12 p.m. –Raise File will be closed to departments
- February 27 (Monday) – Faculty increases will be reflected in Job Data in myUFL
- February 29 (Wednesday) – Department Administrators should review the preliminary pay lists available February 29-March 2 and confirm the new rate is used to calculate earnings for the pay period ending 3/1/2012
- March 5 (Monday) – Department Administrators should review the final pay list and confirm the new rate was used to calculate earnings for the pay period ending 3/1/2012
- March 9 (Friday) – Faculty receive the first paycheck with retirement payment salary increases effective 2/17/2012
Job and Position Actions
- Position Actions submitted in Organizational Development with future dated rows beyond 2/03/2012 will be removed from Job Data if not resolved by 2/15/2012.
- Title changes, pay changes, and FTE changes entered in ePAF after 2/16/2012 will not be approved until after the raises are loaded into job data and HR staff have had a chance to view errors.
- Dept ID changes must have an effective date of 2/16/2012 or earlier (must be approved by 2/15/2012). Dept ID changes effective beyond 2/16/2012 will require manual correction to the Raise Review File by HRS and should be limited.
Please direct questions and comments to 2012salaryincrease@ufl.edu or call Brook Mercier (352) 273-1790 or Janet Malphurs (352) 273-1737. For questions related to the changes in the sick and vacation leave benefits, contact Jennifer Johnson-Kingswell at (352) 273-1728.