Discovery and Planning

FY 2025/FY 2026

Identify consulting partner; launch executive leadership team and steering committees for faculty, staff and graduate student compensation; conduct discovery, data collection, compensation design and development, and build implementation plan.

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Implementation Phase I: Faculty/Staff Framework Design and Market Alignment Activation

FY 2027

Finalize the institutional compensation framework for faculty/staff and prepare it for enterprise implementation. Leverage a comprehensive consultation, training, education and communications plan with VPs, deans, department heads, supervisors, budget fiscal officers, HR liaisons and the workforce at large.

For staff: Once structures are enacted across enterprise systems, initial below-market adjustments expected to be implemented by the paycheck dated Dec. 31, 2026.

For faculty: Alignment on the approach to implementation is expected by or before March 1, 2027, with implementation to follow. Detailed implementation date to be determined with a commitment to retroactively apply eligible faculty pay adjustments to the same effective date as the staff under-market adjustments: Dec. 31, 2026.

Implementation Phase 2: Faculty/Staff Placement Validation

FY 2027/ FY 2028

Collect and validate compensable factors to refine range placement for individual faculty and staff.

Implementation Phase 3: Range Optimization for Faculty/Staff

FY 2029

Optimize pay placement for individual faculty/staff within ranges.