ARTICLE 11

Salaries

Section A.  Returning Faculty.

Subd. 1.  Salaries of tenured, probationary, fixed-term, and non-tenure track faculty members covered by this Agreement shall be at the rates set forth below on the salary schedule as full-time nine-month (168 days) base salaries.  Returning faculty members shall be initially placed on the same salary step  in the same lane occupied at the end of FY 2003.

Subd. 2.  After being placed on the salary schedule as prescribed in Subdivision 1, faculty members who were in the bargaining unit in FY 2003 and who return in FY 2004 shall remain on the same step on the salary schedule.

Subd. 3.  Effective July 1, 2004 faculty members who were in the bargaining unit in fiscal year 2004 and who return in fiscal year 2005 shall advance one (1) step on the salary schedule. Faculty who cannot receive the returning step provided for in this Subdivision because they are at step 48 of the salary schedule shall receive a one-time payment of $2,400 (pro rated by FTE) in lieu of the returning step provided for in this Subdivision.

Section B.  Promoted Faculty.

Subd. 1.  Faculty members promoted from Instructor to Assistant Professor shall move to the step on the salary schedule Professor lane paying the same salary and then advance two steps in addition to the step movement provided for in Section A.

Subd. 2.  Faculty members promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor and Associate Professor to Professor shall advance two steps on the Professor lane of the salary schedule in addition to the step movement provided in Section A.

Subd 3.  Promotions shall become effective July 1.

Section C.  Faculty Who Provide Early Notice of Retirement.  Faculty members who elect to retire with at least fifteen (15) years of service in the Minnesota State Universities and who are at least age fifty-five (55) shall have his/her salary placement increased by two additional steps on the salary schedule(s) established in this Agreement in the final two semesters of employment. To receive this benefit the affected faculty member must submit a written letter of retirement by October 1 if retirement will occur no earlier than the end of the following spring semester but no later than the day prior to the beginning of the subsequent fall semester or by January 15 if retirement will occur at the end of the subsequent fall semester.

Faculty who cannot receive the early notification of retirement steps provided for in this Section because they are on step 48 of the salary schedule shall receive a one-time payment of $4,800 (pro rated by FTE) in lieu of the step increase provided for in this Section.

Section D.  New Faculty Assignment and Placement.

Subd. 1.  New faculty hired during the term of this Agreement shall be assigned to an appropriate rank in accordance with Article 21, Section D.

Subd. 2.  New faculty members beginning employment shall be placed in the appropriate lane at the salary, which is nearest to, but not less than, the salary offered on appointment.

Subd. 3.   After implementation of Subdivisions 1-2 of this section and subject to the minimum step placements, new faculty members shall be deemed to have been placed upon the appropriate step, and no further step placement movement or calculations shall be made, except as provided for in the Agreement.

Section E.  Service at the Top of the Schedule. All faculty who have been at the top of their salary lane for five (5) years shall receive the equivalent of a two-step (approximately a 4.85%) salary adjustment in the next year. Partial years of service at the top of the salary lane and years in which steps are added to the top of the schedule for these lanes shall not be counted toward the calculation of the five- (5) year period.

Section F.  Death in Service. If a faculty member who meets the eligibility requirements for Employer-paid insurance benefits dies after his/her first duty day of employment, but before his/her insurance coverage becomes effective, the unpaid balance of his/her annual salary shall be paid to his/her spouse or dependent children.

Section G.  Health and Dental Premium and Expense Accounts. The Employer agrees to provide insurance-eligible employees with the option to pay for the employee portion of health and dental premiums on a pre-tax basis as permitted by law or regulation. The Employer agrees to allow employees to cover co-payments, deductibles and other medical and dental expenses, or expenses for services not covered by health or dental insurance, as permitted by law or regulation, up to a maximum expenditure of five thousand dollars ($5,000) per insurance year.

Effective January 1, 2005 the employer shall make a lump-sum contribution of five hundred dollars ($500) to each insurance-eligible employee’s health and dental expense at the beginning of each calendar year. At the beginning of calendar year 2005, the Employer will contribute an additional one hundred dollars ($100) to each insurance-eligible employee’s account on a one time basis. At such time as the Minnesota State Retirement System makes available the us of Health Reimbursement Arrangement accounts (HRA), and if feasible, the parties agree to enter into a Letter of Understanding (LOU) providing that the Employer contribution described in this section will be made an  HRA account.

Section H.  Dependent Care Expense Account. The Employer agrees to provide insurance-eligible faculty members with the option to participate in a dependent care reimbursement program for work-related dependent care expenses on a pre-tax basis as permitted by law or regulation.

Section I.  Salary Equity. The Salary Review Committee (SRC) and the Appeals Committee established in the 1992 Letter of Understanding on Salary Equity shall be continued for the life of this Agreement. The SRC may propose to both the IFO and MnSCU procedures and processes, which will reduce the likelihood of inequitable salaries. After the FY 94 review, the SRC will annually review new hires, faculty awarded terminal degrees  since the previous annual review, and any other faculty not previously reviewed for possible equity adjustments, and will recommend appropriate placement based on the then current equity grid.

The SRC will complete a new analysis of the salaries of all faculty every four years in order to update and/or modify data and relevant criteria and recommend adjustments. Appeals from denials of adjustment shall be considered within the time frame established by the committee.

Section J.  Part-Time Faculty Placement on Salary Schedule.  All part-time faculty other than those faculty members having adjunct or community faculty appointments shall be placed upon the salary schedule and paid on a pro rata basis for the entire academic year during which said amount of service is rendered. If any part-time faculty member who teaches more than ten (10) credits in any one academic year were paid less than pro rata for any semesters, during said academic year by virtue of having received an adjunct or community faculty appointment(s), the university shall, as soon as practicable after learning that the faculty member will teach more than ten (10) credits during a single academic year, supplement the faculty member’s salary such that the faculty member receives full pro rata pay for the entire year.

Section K. Career Steps. All faculty members who have completed ten (10) years of service shall receive two (2) additional steps on the salary schedule at the beginning of their eleventh (11) year of service. Faculty members who have completed twenty (20) years of service shall receive an additional two (2) steps on the salary schedule at the beginning of their twenty-first year of service. Faculty members who have completed thirty (30) years of service shall receive an additional two (2) steps on the salary schedule at the beginning of their thirty-first year of service. Years of service shall be counted as of the end of the academic year.  Career steps shall be effective July 1.

The seniority roster shall be used to determine years of service. Administrators who return to the bargaining unit shall have the years served as an administrator included in the years of service for purposes of this section only.

Unless extended or modified by the parties to this Agreement, this Section shall sunset on June 30, 2007.

Section L. Minimum Salary Placement. Prior to the step advancements provided in this Article the following minimum salary placements shall be applied. Instructors shall not be placed below step ten (10) of the Instructor lane as of July 1, 2003 and not below step eleven (11) of the Instructor lane as of July 1, 2004. Assistant Professors shall not be placed below step fifteen (15) as of July 1, 2003 and not below step sixteen (16) as of July 1, 2004. Associate Professors shall not be placed below step seventeen (17) as of July 1, 2003 and not below step eighteen (18) as of July 1, 2004.  Professors shall not be placed below step nineteen (19) as of July 1, 2003 and not below step twenty (20) as of July 1, 2004.

Section M. Adjunct and Community Faculty Compensation. Effective July 1, 2003 salaries of adjunct and community faculty members covered under this Agreement shall be not less than one thousand seventy five dollars ($1,075) per credit hour. Effective Fall Semester 2004 salaries of adjunct and community faculty members covered under this Agreement shall be not less than one thousand one hundred dollars ($1,100) per credit hour.

Salary Schedule for 2003-2005 Agreement

(Note: Values shown in shaded cells are for calculation purposes only. Individuals are not to be permanently placed on these steps.)