Salary

There are four paths to adjusting a faculty member's salary on a temporary and/or permanent basis.

ANNUAL SALARY REVIEW

In addition to the salary scale adjustment, each employee may be eligible for one of the following types of salary actions each year as appropriate:

1. awarding a Career Development Increase or part thereof;
2. awarding a Special Increase in accordance with Article 18.2.4.1; 
3. awarding a combination of (i) and (ii); 
4. withholding a Career Development Increase. 

Article 17 of the USFA collective agreement outlines the details of salary actions and Article 18 outlines the details of salary and salary action amounts. 

OVERLOAD REMUNERATION

An employee may receive extra compensation for certain extraordinary teaching or non-teaching assignments as outlined in Article 18.5.

EXPEDITED PROCEDURES

Salary adjustments can be made in the case of an emergency where a salary anomaly arose out of placement on the salary grid at the time of appointment, or there was a demonstrable risk of losing a faculty member because of higher salaries at comparable institutions. For more information see Article 17.5.7.

STIPENDS

A stipend may be issued to faculty appointed into a leadership position (such as a department head or assistant dean) or is appointed into a chair position. See articles 18.8 and 18.10 for additional details. 

The standards of performance for the award of Special Increases (SIs) are defined by the respective salary review committee and communicated to faculty prior to the year they take effect. Standards for the award of SIs shall be established in accordance with Articles 17.2 and 17.3.

The criteria for the award of SIs may differ from department to department and from college/school to college/school as a result of unique aspects or expectations of the discipline that may be internal and/or external to the University. Standards of performance shall take into account variability in the assignment of duties across employees in the academic unit. 

Evaluation will be based on information provided by each employee as documented in a current CV update and in accordance with applicable standards for the award of Special Increases and Article 17.5.6 (ii). 

The current standards for each academic unit are provided below: 

Each decision-making body shall define its own procedures in accordance with its powers and obligations outlined in Article 17. Below are the procedures for submitting a case file for merit consideration and the activities that take place to issue awards. 

Colleges/schools may recommend employees to the President's Review Committee (PRC) for merit. The PRC asks for the following information to be incorporated into their recommendation:

• A covering memo capturing:
  • a ranked list of recommended employees; and
  • a summary of the process followed by the committee. 
• The salary review casefiles of each recommended employee containing:
  • the completed and signed salary review form(s);
  • CV updates 1 and 2 for the period under consideration; and
  • any other material that junior committees used to deliberate.

• Submit Recommendations

Employees who wish to appeal the decision of a department or college/school decision are asked to submit the following:

• An appeal letter;
• The completed and signed salary review form(s); 
• CV updates 1 and 2 for the period under consideration.