The Office of Human Resource
Management is responsible for developing and
maintaining a wage and salary program that will
ensure fair and equitable compensation for all
administrative/ professional and clerical/secretarial
staff of the University. The plan establishes
pay ranges for positions to establish internal
equity within the system. Through surveys of
local and national institutions and various
other means the University will maintain a level
of external equity with other institutions,
which maintain similar or comparable employment
situations. The ranges will be reviewed annually
and modified accordingly.
The salary budget is established annually by
the President, based on the recommendation of
the Budget Committee. For each new fiscal year,
the revised salary budget will be based on the
total current payroll or for individual departments
and divisions, as well as new or modified positions
established during the budgeting process.
The Vice President for Management and Business
is responsible for preparing and distributing
salary budgets for each division of the University.
Divisional vice presidents are responsible for
the allocation of salary increase dollars within
their divisions and for establishing overall
salary increase guidelines to be followed by
their department heads.
On occasion, new positions or reclassifications
may be approved after the budget has been established.
Additional funding for salary and benefits will
be the responsibility of the appropriate divisional
vice president.
The position classification program for executive,
administrative, professional, and clerical/secretarial
positions is maintained and updated by the Office
of Human Resource Management on a continuing
basis. Department heads should review job descriptions
periodically and make recommendations for reclassification
as necessary.
All new or revised positions are classified
by the Director of Human Resource Management
and an appropriate salary range is established
based on a written description of all duties
and responsibilities. The written description
may be prepared by the individual holding the
position in conjunction with the individual’s
supervisor or department head. The Position
Description Questionnaire, the appropriate form
used for describing a position to be classified,
is available upon request from the Office of
Human Resource Management.
All requests for classification or reclassification
of a position, once approved by the immediate
supervisor, must be forwarded to the Office
of Human Resource Management.
Upon review of the request, a written recommendation
will be forwarded to the senior department head.
Final approval must then be received from the
appropriate divisional vice president, who is
also responsible for determining funding for
any related salary improvement. Once Human Resources
receives the approval and budget information,
the classification or reclassification will
be processed, and the department will be notified.
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