Administrative Salary Policy
Approved by the Board of Trustees, July 9, 1993
It is the policy of the University of Illinois to
compensate faculty and staff members in accord with their duties and
responsibilities and with reference to compensation received for such
duties in comparable universities. The purpose of the University's
policy is to advance and protect the excellence of the University
through the attraction of high quality personnel.
Within this general framework, it also is
important for the University to recruit and to retain skilled
individuals to carry out major administrative assignments. Whether
candidates come from outside the University or from within,
administrative salaries are set at levels commensurate with the role and
responsibility of those positions, and with reference to salary
levels paid those carrying comparable responsibilities at peer
universities.
Individuals who are appointed department heads,
deans, vice chancellors, etc., move in and out of such administrative
roles during the course of an academic career. When such an individual
accepts increased administrative responsibilities, increased salary
may be provided to reflect, in part, the added responsibility. When
such increments are provided, a written record should be made thereof
in the initial letter of appointment. Upon leaving an administrative
position and returning to the faculty or staff, an individual's salary
should ordinarily be reduced to reflect, among other considerations,
the change in responsibility and, in some instances, a shift to a
nine-month academic year appointment.
The president of the University, working in
concert with the chancellor, has the responsibility, as delegated by
the Board of Trustees, to assure that salary adjustments are made, as
appropriate, to reflect changes in roles and responsibilities. The
right to approve salaries, on an annual basis, rests with the Board of
Trustees of the University.