GENERAL INFORMATION

1-10.	Introduction
1-11.	Academic Personnel Records
1-12.	Academic Personnel Review Process
1-14.	Departmental Voting Procedures
1-15.	Outside Professional Activities Report
1-20.	List of Senate and Non-Senate Academic Titles

RECRUITMENT

APP 6-13, Off-Scale Salaries Sets out the general policy for the use of off-scale salaries.

Highlights: Limitations on Off-Scale Salaries Return to Scale Process Policy Reference

SALARY ADMINISTRATION

Off-Scale Salaries

A. GENERAL POLICY

Off-scale salaries may be approved for academic appointees in the Professor series or comparable titles when necessary to meet competitive conditions (see Policy APM 620-14 for a complete list of eligible titles).

1. Range Adjustment

At the time of a general range adjustment, off-scale salaries for the general campus will receive the percentage of general range adjustment applicable to their academic series.  For Health Compensation Plan faculty, the base (as defined by the Health Compensation Plan) off-scale salary will receive the percentage of general range adjustment.

In addition, when a person is appointed or initially advanced to an off-scale salary, the Chancellor may specify that the salary is to be unaffected by the first range adjustment. In such a case, the appointee will be notified in writing of this stipulation by the Chancellor, and the stipulation must be noted on the Personnel Action Form (see APM Policy 620-18-b).

2. Return to Scale Process at Advancement

The amount of merit and promotion increases on off-scale salaries will be 75 percent of the increment (in even hundreds of dollars) for on-scale salaries for the action in question. Thus, if a faculty member is an Associate Professor, Step II, off-scale, and is awarded a merit increase to Associate Professor, Step III, off-scale, the amount of increase would be calculated as follows:

a. Subtract the salary for Associate Professor, Step II, on the appropriate salary scale from Associate Professor, Step III, on that scale. The difference is the increment.

b. Take 75 percent of the increment (calculated in a. above) and round to the nearest hundred dollars. This is the amount of the off-scale merit increase.

c. Add this amount (from b. above) to the Associate Professor, Step II, off-scale salary to determine the new Associate Professor, Step III, off-scale salary.

These calculations apply only as long as the individual's salary is above the salary on the salary scale for his or her assigned step. Salaries never fall below the scale for the assigned step.

NOTE: This policy replaces a policy that off-scale salaries must return to step within two merit increases, a policy which applied through 1983.

B. LIMITATIONS

1. An off-scale salary may not be the same as any salary on the published scale for the particular title or series.

2. An off-scale salary may not be less than the salary associated with the rank and step in the UC system-wide salary scales.

3. Salaries above the thresholds require Presidential or Regental approval.

Reference - University Policy

• APM 620, Off-Scale Salaries for Appointments and Advancements