The compensation approval level is defined in the Standing Orders as the dollar limit on the President's authority to approve salaries, indexed annually in accordance with the Consumer Price Index. Effective immediately, pursuant to the above authority of the President, you are authorized to approve for eligible academic appointees above-scale salaries up to and including 47 percent above scale. This percentage indicator will remain in effect until the ladder-rank faculty salary scales are range adjusted and the compensation level is indexed, and will be adjusted with each subsequent range adjustment and annual compensation level indexing. This delegated authority extends to approval of off-scale salaries, including approval of individual cases which require an exception to Academic Personnel Policy for faculty below Step VI whose salary requirements are greater than the top of the salary scale. Librarians and Lecturers remain ineligible for off-scale salaries.
Librarians remain ineligible for above-scale salaries.
1 Salaries in this context include base salary and annual stipends of Acting Deans and Acting Provosts. The thresholds for Deans and Provosts remain at the Senior Management Program compensation level.