Budgets

Salary Escalation Rates

Page at a Glance:

• Overview

• Academic Faculty and Professional Research Series

• Other Academic

• Academic Salary Escalation Tables

• Staff on Step-Based Pay Plans

• Staff on Merit-Based Pay Plans

Overview:

Salaries and wages are monetary compensation paid to UCSD employees working on a project. Personnel may include faculty, researchers, visiting scholars, staff, and graduate students.

 

Projected applicable cost-of-living and merit increases should be applied in accordance with annual guidance provided by the UC Office of the President, Research Administration Office (UC OP/RAO).   Please Note: Per UC OP/RAO, this is still the currently suggested guidance for proposal preparation.

 

• For Academic Faculty, Other Academic, and Staff on Step-Based Pay Plans, separately budget for cost-of-living allowances and then add merit increases where applicable.

• For Staff on Merit-Based Pay Plans, budget an average increase with no separate calculations for cost-of-living allowances and merit.

 

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Academic Faculty and Professional Research Series:

Academic Faculty titles include:

• Professor series

• Acting titles in the Professor series (students who hold the Acting Instructor title are not considered faculty)

• Visiting titles in the Professor series

• Professor In Residence series

• Adjunct Professor series

• Professor of Clinical X (e.g., Medicine) series

• Clinical Professor series

• Supervisor of Physical Education series

• Supervisor of Teacher Education

• Lecturer, including those in Summer Session

• Senior Lecturer

• Lecturer with Potential for Security of Employment (PSOE)

• Senior Lecturer with Potential for Security of Employment (PSOE)

• Lecturer with Security of Employment (SOE)

• Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment (SOE)

Professional Research Series titles include:

• Assistant Research, for example Physicist

• Associate Research, for example Physicist

• Research, for example Physicist

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Other Academic:

Other academic titles include:

• Graduate Student Researchers

• Postdoctoral Scholar - Employee

• Postgraduate Researchers

• Physical Education Instructors

• Acting Instructors

• Lecturers other than those with security of employment

• Visiting Professors

• Visiting Astronomers

• Visiting Agronomers

• Librarians

• Specialists

• Those with "recalled" in their titles

 

Please Note: This is not an exhaustive list but should include virtually any academic other than "Faculty" who is likely to be employed under an extramural agreement.

 

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Academic Salary Escalation Tables:

For your convenience, the following 15 tables have been created for those Academic Titles most often included in proposal budgets. The tables begin with October 1, 2008, with salaries escalated through October 1, 2015.

Professor Series:

Academic Year Appointment - Summer Salary Rates

Fiscal Year Appointment

Business/Management and Engineering - Academic Year Appointment - Summer Salary Rates

Business/Management and Engineering - Fiscal Year Appointment

Preclinical - Fiscal Year Appointment

Professional Research Series:

Research Scientist/Scholar - Academic Year Appointment

Project Scientist/Scholar - Fiscal Year Appointment (hired with start dates prior to 10/01/08)

Project Scientist/Scholar - Fiscal Year Appointment (hired with start dates on or after 10/01/08)

Research Scientist/Scholar Business/Management and Engineering - Academic Year Appointment

Research Scientist/Scholar Business/Management and Engineering - Fiscal Year Appointment

Research Scientist/Scholar - Fiscal Year Appointment

Project Scientist/Scholar Business/Management and Engineering - Fiscal Year Appointment

Other Research Series:

Specialist - Fiscal Year Appointment

Postgraduate Researcher - Fiscal Year Appointment

Student Titles:

Graduate Student Researcher - Fiscal Year Appointment

 

Staff on Step-Based Pay Plans:

Staff on Step-Based Pay Plans are generally titles represented by a bargaining unit. Salary is identified/categorized as Steps with increments of half-steps.  For these positions, separately budget for cost-of-living allowances and then add merit increases where applicable.

 

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Staff on Merit-Based Pay Plans:

Staff on Merit-Based Pay Plans include those in the Professional & Support Staff (PSS), Managers & Senior Professionals (MSP), and can include some represented titles.  Salary is identified in ranges which include Minimum, 25th percentile, Midpoint, and Maximum. For these positions, budget an average increase with no separate calculations for cost-of-living allowances and merit.

 

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Academic Salary Escalation Tables:

Postdoctoral Scholar - Employee - Fiscal Year Appointment:

• Merit increases are effective the first of the month or following the anniversary date of the initial Postdoctoral Scholar appointment.

 

Postdoctoral Scholar - Fellow - Fiscal Year Appointment:

• Annual increases are determined by the funding agency.

• These rates are not to be used for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Postdoctoral Trainees. Please visit the NIH Training Grant section of this Web site for applicable rates.

 

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