Northern Arizona U. to give employees first raises in three years, ranging from $500 to $29,000 apiece
Arizona Daily Sun
September 7, 2010
About 1,700 Northern Arizona University employees, from secretaries to professors to vice presidents, are getting raises ranging from $500 to more than $29,000 apiece.
University officials said the boosts are "market adjustments" -- not raises in the merit or cost-of-living sense -- and total about $6.8 million. They're meant to bring employees' salaries closer to their counterparts at other universities in NAU's so-called "peer group," and come after three years with no raises at all.
University spokesman Tom Bauer said the raises were granted in an objective way. Employees making within 10 percent of their counterparts at peer universities were not given raises. But about two-thirds of NAU's 2,564 benefits-eligible employees did qualify for a boost.
