System is designed to provide a member with a salary at the end of their career that is, on average, more than twice their starting salary. Evaluation and discussions about each member's merit points take place between the member and unit Head in the spring. The Dean assigns the merit points, salary letters are distributed in June, and any increase appears in the July payroll, retroactive to May 1 of that year. Scale Scale increases are negotiated at the bargaining table and expressed as a percentage of salary. All members of the bargaining unit receive the same scale increase.
Scale protects the real value of salaries from inflation.
Scale increases allow members to share in the growth of real wages in the economy and keep pace with other professions. Scale increases raise the individual's average career earnings. They affect a member's earnings over their career differently and should be reported separately. It is confusing to combine them and express the total as a percentage of each member's salary.