All our salaries are either state civil service or faculty.  All raises
follow state regulations.  Creative PI's can find ways to get
reclassifications, to keep salaries competetive.
Chuck

At 11:24 AM 1/12/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Dear Colleagues:
>
>Currently, salary raises for individuals paid from grants follow university
>guidelines in terms of the available pool.  Therefore, even if a higher
>salary was budgeted, the raise given does not exceed the pool unless the
>job description were to change.   Can you respond as to whether your
>institution follows an institution wide policy in this regard.  The
>argument from the researchers is they need to maintain a competitive work
>force and have to be able to offer increases to retain people who have
>experience.  Since there is little job security, it should be compensated
>somehow.  I look forward to your response.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Judy Wilks
>Tulane University
>
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