They do use, however, some industry surveys in developing ranges. They include industry data to make sure our salaries are competitive. He will also be determining market for benchmark positions, which were provided by HR with input from administration. Mercer will work to provide external equity or competitiveness for those positions. Regarding CAPS, Mercer gave several possible ways to address caps.
Bonuses are one way to offer compensation for meritorious work.
Other topics addressed practices regarding salary movement to the midpoint and after the midpoint and weighting of job analysis questionnaire elements. In this loss we are suffering doubly, as we also lose Ohio Research Challenge dollars. Even in terms of regulatory compliance for our research programs, we may already be at serious risk. Mary Lynn Pozniak reminded the reps to ask their constituents if they are on the ASC listproc. If there are constituents who wish to be added to the listproc, the reps can contact Pozniak or Deb Wells.