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Faculty members in the California State University System will be get a 10.5 percent raise over the next two years, according to a tentative agreement announced Friday that staved off a strike planned for next week. Salary negotiations had stalled as the California Faculty Association, the faculty union for tenure-line and non-tenure-track instructors, pushed for a 5 percent raise while the university system offered 2 percent. But this week’s deal includes a 5 percent raise in June, another 2 percent raise in July, and an additional 3.5 percent raise in 2017. Some instructors will be given 2.65 percent bumps next year, as well, to address salary compression.
System Chancellor Timothy White told The Sacramento Bee, “Salary problems take many years and will likewise take many years to solve …. [The agreement] gives us the breathing room we need to achieve this with the help of lawmakers.” According to the Bee, nearly 10,000 tenured or tenure-track professors in the system make an average of about $84,000 per year, while non-tenure-track lecturers and part-time instructors on average earn a per-class equivalent of a $50,645 salary. California Faculty Association, affiliated with the American Association of University Professors, the National Education Association and Service Employees International Union, represents 26,000 tenure-line and non-tenure-track faculty, librarians, counselors and coaches across CSU's 23 campuses.
