December 17, 2021

Memo From The Campus President to UUP Members:

During negotiations for the 2016-2022 State/UUP Agreement, the parties agreed to develop guidelines and a methodology for a salary equity study to be conducted at each campus. The purpose of the study is to identify compression and inversion for UUP-represented employees. Salary inversion may exist when new employees are hired at salaries higher than experienced employees; compression may exist when salaries of experienced employees fail to maintain distance above salaries of new employees.

A State/SUNY/UUP executive-level committee has developed guidelines and a methodology to analyze and identify the extent of salary compression and inversion, and the adopted guidelines and methodology have been implemented at Farmingdale State College.

The agreement between the State and UUP includes using 0.5% of the discretionary salary increase (DSI) funds to address identified compression and inversion. In an effort to be transparent, I have attached a summary of specific factors made in the distribution of the funds dedicated to addressing disparity.

If you should have any specific issues or concerns regarding the analysis completed at Farmingdale State College, please contact Human Resources at HR@farmingdale.edu.

John Nader
President