Salary Rates Management

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Aug 03, 2023
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Introduction

The purpose of the Salary Rates Management page is to set projected salary amounts for Term Faculty Appointment, TSSU Instructors, Overload Teaching Appointment and Teaching Assistants. It provides the user a brief estimate overview of how much each TI and TA/TM will cost a department/faculty, which will allow users to have a better budget estimate. The user will need to set this up prior to work being done on the worksheets. Please note that these are purely generic amounts to help budget and may not be the final amount to be used in the contracts.

 

In the following section, you will learn how to do the following:

  • Understand the components that make up the Salary Rates Management

  • How to set projected salary amounts for Term Faculty Appointment, TSSU Instructors, Overload Teaching Appointment and Teaching Assistants

How to Navigate the Salary Rates Management

The Salary Rates Management page has two components: filter and salary rates management cards. The filter allows the user to narrow down the cards. The cards are used to setup the projected salary amounts for each employment group.

Filter

Filter

Description

Fiscal Years

This field will be pre-set to the current period. Only one option can be selected at once in this field.

Faculties

This field will be pre-set according to the user.

Schools/Departments/Programs

This field will be limited to the schools, departments and programs in the faculty. Only one option can be selected at once in this field.

Employment Groups

One or more options can be selected at once in this field.

Ranks

One or more options can be selected at once in this field.

Salary Rates Management Cards

The card allows the user to set projected salary amounts for the employment groups. The rates and formulas are pre-set, but custom blends can be set for Term Faculty Employment and Teaching Assistants. While the Term Faculty Appointment, TSSU Instructors and Overload Teaching Appointment calculations are set at the university level and will mostly remain unchanged, the TA calculations can vary significantly by each department and faculty. These pre-set calculations come from the collective agreement and the salary scales. Please refer below to see the formulas used for each employment group:

 

Employment Group

Formula 

Term Faculty Appointment

((Floor * (1+ General Wage Increase + Economic Stability Dividend)) +Blended Salary Step Increase) / 8 

TSSU Instructors 

(Base * Contact Hours) + (Base * Prep)

Overload Reaching Appointment 

Base * (Contact Hours + Prep)

Teaching Assistants 

Estimated Base Units * Blended TA Base 

Blended Rates

Custom blends can be set for Term Faculty Employment and Teaching Assistants to account for variation. For Term Faculty Employment, this difference comes from the blended step increase. For Teaching Assistants, this difference comes from the blended TA base, which reflects the ratio of undergraduate, masters, PhD students and external candidates that become Teaching Assistants. Custom blends can be set at the department and faculty level.

How to Use the Salary Rates Management

  1. Select the options on the filter. Click .

  2. If setting custom blends for Term Faculty Appointment or Teaching Assistants

    1. Term Faculty Appointment

      1. Click  on the rank

      2. Click  under Custom Faculty Blend

      3. Fill in the Academic Unit and Blended % Step Increase or Blended Step Increase fields. After filling in the % or $ value of the blend increase, the other will automatically populate with the equivalent value. Notes is an optional field.

      4. Click 

      5. Click  to confirm that you want to update the rates

    2. Teaching Assistants

      1. Click 

      2. Under Default Faculty Blend, fill in the UTA/UTM, GTA1/GTM1, GTA2/GTM2 and ETA/ETM fields.

      3. Under Custom Department Blend, fill in the School/Dept/Program, UTA/UTM, GTA1/GTM1, GTA2/GTM2 and ETA/ETM fields

      4. Click  to add more schools, departments and programs

      5. Click 

      6. Click  to confirm that you want to update the rates

How to Find the Salary Rates Management

  • Head to the menu drop down under Budget Mgmt > TI/TA Budget Planner

  • Select Salary Rates Mgmt

 

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