Salary Step System. Faculty salaries in the bargaining unit will be assigned according to the following step system. A. Annual Tenure track and Tenured Faculty. For annual tenure track and tenured faculty, there will be a 38-step salary step system for the 2017-18 academic year 1. For the current Bargaining Agreement, the normal entry-level salary for Assistant Professors will be step 1. For 12-month faculty, the entry level annual salary will be step 1 times the ratio 11 to 9. In consultation with the search committee, professional service prior to, during, or after the awarding of the doctorate or other terminal degree will be considered for salary adjustment purposes. One step per one year of service to a maximum of five steps will be granted. 2. Faculty members will be awarded 1 step per year of service in the salary system unless a step is not available on the salary schedule for the specified year of the biennium. Leave without pay will not be considered full-time service in figuring years of service, except in the case of Professional Leave without pay. Sabbatical leave will be considered full-time service in figuring years of service. For purposes of salary level placement, those serving as division chairs shall receive one year credit on the salary schedule for each year served as chair. 3. Faculty who receive promotion from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor or from Associate Professor to Full Professor shall receive, in addition, four steps in the salary system. 4. Assistant Professors shall not advance beyond the 10th step. Associate Professors shall not advance beyond the 32nd step.
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