June 25, 2025
UC Office of the President is implementing a salary increase budget of 3.2 percent for policy-covered staff and academic appointees at all locations. Excluded from this program are staff employees and academics appointees who are represented by our various unions as their wages are governed by collective bargaining unit agreements.
Overview of the 2025-26 Program
- The overall salary scales for policy-covered academic appointees will be raised by 3.2%.
- The annual academic merit review process to determine reappointments, as well as adjustments in rank and step will continue.
- There will be no increases off-scale salaries. Above-scale salaries will be increased by the same amount as the on-scale increase for Professor Step IX.
- In line with established processes, the effective date is July 1, 2025, or October 1, 2025, depending on the academic appointee group or effective the first pay period commencing thereafter for biweekly paid appointees. The faculty general range adjustment will be effective October 1, 2025.
Other non-represented academic appointees
- The scales for policy covered non-faculty academic appointees (which includes policy-covered librarians and academic researchers) will be increased by a general range adjustment of 3.2% on July 1, 2025 for monthly paid or July 6, 2025 (the first pay period commencing after July 1, 2025) for biweekly paid academic appointees (the precise amount will vary due to rounding). Scales with ranges will be increased in a similar fashion.
Letter from President Drake (pdf)
