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Chancellor’s Message: 1% Salary Increase for Eligible Employees

Chancellor’s Message: 1% Salary Increase for Eligible Employees

As mentioned in the January 15, 2025, email from Chancellor Volety, eligible employees will receive a 1% base salary increase effective January 1, 2025, in their January 31, 2025, paycheck. All told, more than 2200 employees will receive the 1% salary increase which will be calculated on their December 31, 2024, base salary. For administrators returning to a faculty position January 1, 2025, the 1% increase is calculated on their January 1, 2025, 9-month faculty base salary.

Note: The calculation of the 1% salary increase excludes any non-permanent administrative salary supplements or salary increase in place for an interim appointment or temporary increased duties.

Eligibility criteria

  1. Employees must be permanent benefits-eligible part-time (.50 FTE or greater) or full-time SHRA, EPS, or faculty (including time-limited and probationary employees).   EPS (Exempt Professional Staff) is the new UNC System category for employees previously included in the SAAO Tier II and EHRA IRIT categories.
  2. Temporary employees, part-time faculty, and student employees are ineligible.
  3. Athletic coaches with contracts should refer to their current contract for discretionary increase eligibility.
  4. Employees must be employed in an eligible SHRA, EPS, or faculty position December 31, 2024, with continued eligible employment in January 2025.
  5. Employees must be in good standing with no active disciplinary actions and an overall rating of “meeting expectations” or higher on their most recent performance appraisal.
  6. The salary increase cannot result in a salary that exceeds UNC System delegated on-campus approval authority for the employee type. Ineligible employees based on UNC System guidelines include:
    • EPS employees with a base salary of $125,000 or higher with a cumulative increase since June 30, 2024, that exceeds 10%
    • EPS employees with a base salary of $125,000 or higher that exceeds the 75th percentile of their salary range
    • Faculty who exceed the maximum of their salary range
    • Faculty in the first year of phased retirement
    • SHRA employees above 115% of the market reference rate for their career band competency level
    • SHRA employees whose new salary would exceed the market rate of the next higher competency level within their career band
    • SHRA employees who exceed the maximum of the salary range for their career band
    • SHRA employees with a base salary of $125,000 or higher with a cumulative increase since June 30, 2024, that exceeds 10%
    • SAAO employees (formerly known as SAAO Tier 1) - vice chancellors, deans, general counsel

To determine if you received the 1% base salary increase, compare your December 2024 gross pay to your January 2025 gross pay. You can check it on January 31, 2025, by logging into mySeaport ==> Employee Essentials ==> Employee Dashboard ==> All Pay Stubs.   

If you have questions regarding eligibility for this salary increase, please contact SalaryAdmin_Leavekeeping@uncw.edu.


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