In addition, when a person is appointed or initially advanced to an off-step salary, the Chancellor may specify that the salary is to be unaffected by the first range adjustment. Subtract the salary for Associate Professor, Step II, on the appropriate salary scale from Associate Professor, Step III, on that scale. The difference is the increment. This is the amount of the off-step merit increase. These calculations apply only as long as the individual's salary is above the salary on the salary scale for his or her assigned step.
Salaries never fall below the scale for the assigned step.
This policy replaces a policy that off-step salaries must return to step within two merit increases, a policy which applied through 1983. The following chart summarizes the maximum off-step salaries set out in APM Policy 620. Normally, an off-step salary will lie between the individual's assigned step and the next higher step. An off-step salary may not be the same as any salary on the published scale for the particular title or series. An off-step salary may not be less than the salary associated with the rank and step in the salary scales.