SU employees get pay raise after 3-year wait

“A state raise coincided with a university raise so we could do significant raises this year,” said Southern University Chancellor, Edward R. Jackson
The salary increases Jackson was speaking of included a 10.5 percent pay increase for all faculty employees and a 5 percent pay increase for all non-faculty employees.
This year’s tuition increase attributed to half of the faculty pay raise and all of the non-faculty pay raise.
“We have to raise salaries often and fast to be competitive,” said Jackson. According to Jackson, he planned this raise years ago when he first became chancellor.
Classified workers on campus are awarded annual four percent pay increases from the state legislature, said Jackson. He said SU provides funding for these increases.
Unclassified campus workers are awarded a pay raise by the state legislature when funds are available, Jackson said. Funds became available this year.
The pay increases are intended to bring employees as close as possible to their discipline’s Southern Regional Education Board average, Jackson stated in a memorandum to employees October 8.
The memorandum said the increases would be retroactive to the start of the contract year (July 1 for 12-month unclassified employees and August 20 for nine-month unclassified employees).