FY 2021 Pay Plan Information

Last fall, Governor Evers and the Joint Committee on Employment Relations (JCOER) approved the Board of Regent proposed 2019-2021 pay plan for UW System employees. This pay plan provides a base rate increase to all eligible employees of 2% in FY20 and 2% in FY21. President Thompson has indicated that Institutions should prepare for the January 2%  increase for FY21 despite statewide fiscal challenges. A final confirmation from Wisconsin State Legislature and UW System Administration is required, and that should occur in the coming weeks.

Despite these uncertainties, we have been asked to make arrangements for a potential pay plan distribution, including determining which employees are eligible under the UW-Green Bay Compensation and Pay Plan Policy and providing that list of eligible employees to UW System Administration to be included in the application of the proposed FY 2021 pay plan.

Eligible employees for the proposed 2% FY 2021 pay plan include faculty, academic staff, limited, university staff, and university staff project appointments in ongoing positions with a budgeted FTE of 50% or greater. Pursuant to the UW-Green Bay Compensation and Pay Plan Policy and other publicized guidelines, the following list represents employees who would be ineligible for pay plan:

    1. Employees paid from provisional, non-budgeted salary lines, including all temporary appointments and positions less than 50% FTE.
    2. Employees represented by a collective bargaining agreement (CBA). Respective pay increases for pay plan will be negotiated separately through the CBA.
    3. Employees currently under a performance improvement plan.
    4. Employees deemed “unsatisfactory” or “does not meet expectations” in overall level of performance under their most recent performance evaluation.
    5. Ongoing employees with six-months of service or less as of the effective date of pay plan (start date after 6/30/2020)
    6. Employees who have not completed required campus compliance training. Required trainings include:
      • Harassment & Discrimination Prevention (Required every three years)
      • Checkpoint: Data Security & Privacy (Required annually)
      • Protect Children (EDU-WI) (One-time training required at time of hire)
      • Injury and Illness Prevention (EDU) (One-time training required at time of hire)
      • FERPA Basics (One-time training required at time of hire)
      • Touchstone: Tools for an Ethical Workplace (One-time training required at time of hire)
      • Campus Security Authority Training (for employees designated as Campus Security Authority (CSA) only)
    7. Supervisors who do not have completed, up to date evaluations on file for all of their direct reports. The evaluation periods to assess for FY 2021 pay plan are as follows:
      • University Staff: 1/1/2019 – 12/31/2019
      • Non-Instructional Academic Staff / Limited:  7/1/2019 – 6/30/2020
      • Faculty / Instructional Academic Staff: 2018/2019 Academic Year

In order to be eligible for pay plan, eligibility requirements (specifically the required trainings and performance evaluations) must be complete by November 30, 2020.  Please note that as recent provisions of the Harassment and Discrimination Prevention and Data Security trainings by UW Shared Services are not due until mid-January of 2021, eligibility for FY21 pay plan will be assessed based upon previous completion of those two specific trainings.

Human Resources will be assessing eligibility of employees. During the month of November, the HR Office will be sending reminders to employees, supervisors, and Dean/Division Leaders of any missing training and/or performance evaluation requirements. Please make sure to be looking out for these emails over the next month.

If you have questions about the FY 2021 pay plan, please feel free to contact Human Resources at hr@uwgb.edu or (920) 465-2390.