The university uses numerous techniques to classify staff positions, including:
- participation in and review of salary surveys
- review by Human Resources and President’s Council
- consideration of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) exempt/nonexempt guidelines
- input from the relevant department head
- periodic Human Resources’ review of positions within the salary grade structure and consideration of requests relative to the level of existing positions and those positions in which job duties have changed significantly
- evaluation of new positions as needed
Supervisors may request a position be re-evaluated to determine whether the position is appropriately classified by submitting an updated job description and providing rationale for re-evaluation (significant change in job duties due to department reorganization, etc).
If a position is reclassified to a new salary grade, and/or status, the adjustments will generally be implemented in coordination with the university’s regular budget cycle.