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State Budget and Salary Increase Implementation Process Update

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MEMORANDUM

TO: NC State University Faculty and Staff

FROM: Warwick Arden, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost

Scott Douglass, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration

SUBJECT: State Budget and Salary Increase Implementation Process Update

DATE: July 10, 2018

As you have likely seen reported in the media, North Carolina’s state legislators recently passed the FY 2019 state budget. We are working with the UNC System to understand the budget’s complete implications for NC State, but know it does include several positive outcomes for the System overall including fully funded enrollment growth, funds for faculty recruitment and retention, funding for R&R, and funding to promote access for North Carolina residents. We appreciate our state leaders’ ongoing support of NC State and the entire UNC System.

The legislature also allocated funding for 2% across the board raises for State employees, not including UNC System employees. For our employees, legislators have assigned a total of $20 million for salary increases to be distributed throughout the UNC System’s 17 institutions. This amount is being provided to the Board of Governors with direction “to provide a salary increase to EHRA and SHRA employees for the following purposes: merit, across the board, recruitment bonuses, retention increases, or other compensation increases.”

We are awaiting the board’s guidance about how these salary funds will be distributed and how NC State may use its share for employee increases. We expect the board will provide additional direction at its July 27, 2018 meeting.

We do know the budget provides eligible full-time university employees five non-expiring bonus leave days. The budget also includes a provision that raises the minimum salary for all state employees, including university employees, to $31,200. All university employees with a salary below $31,200 will be increased to that amount. We do not currently have a timeline for this to be implemented.

We will keep the campus community updated as more information becomes available.

Thank you.


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