Market Average Pay vs. Staff Pay Gap
What is ASU going to do in the coming year to adequately address the persistent gap between our salaries and the market averages for staff positions? For example, in the 2024 ABOR Personnel Report (see here: https://www.azregents.edu/sites/default/files/reports/2024-Personnel-Report.pdf), it shows ASU would need to increase our salaries 9.2%-14.3% in 2025 to achieve market averages for our positions. This gap is persistent across ABOR Personnel Reports (see here: https://www.azregents.edu/personnel-report-archives) for the last several years. A canned response about merit pay and "total benefits" is not what is needed here, nor is a canned response about professional development opportunities (that would simply lead to another paid under-market average staff position at the University) or "job architecture." What concrete actions are being taken that take this persistent gap seriously? Staff deserve take home pay that is truly commensurate with our peers outside the University and pay that can keep pace with the staggering inflation and rapidly increasing cost of living in the broader Phoenix metro area.
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