WEST virginia
legislature
2017 regular session
FISCAL
NOTE
By
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to the Committee on Education; and then to the Committee on Finance
A BILL to amend and
reenact §18B-9-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to
temporary higher education classified employees annual salary schedule;
providing that when developed and adopted by the Higher Education Policy
Commission and the Council for Community and Technical College Education, a new
salary structure will replace the schedule that currently exists for higher
education classified employees; providing that any provision of law in conflict
with the new salary structure is null and void; requiring the commission and
council to recommend legislation in 2018 to enact the new salary structure into
law; and requiring prior to adoption of the new structure the commission and
council must seek comments from affected constituents.
Be it enacted by the
Legislature of West Virginia:
That §18B-9-3 of the
Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 9. CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEE SALARY SCHEDULE AND
CLASSIFICATION
SYSTEM.
§18B-9-3. Temporary
higher education classified employee annual salary schedule.
(a) There is hereby
continued a temporary state annual salary schedule for classified employees
consisting of a minimum annual salary for each pay grade in accordance with
years of experience. Nothing in this article guarantees payment to a classified
employee of the salary indicated on the schedule at the actual years of
experience. The minimum salary herein indicated shall be prorated for
classified employees working fewer than thirty-seven and one-half hours per
week. For the purposes of this article and article nine-a, despite any
differences in salaries that may occur, a classified employee is equitably
compensated in relation to other classified employees in the same pay grade if
the following conditions exist:
(1) His or her annual
salary is at least the minimum salary that was required for his or her pay
grade and years of experience on July 1, 2001, on the salary schedule included
in this section; and
(2) Progress is being made
by the institution in meeting the salary goals set out in this article and
article nine-a.
(b) Nothing in this section
requires an appropriation by the Legislature in excess of the legislative
funding priorities as set forth in this chapter.
(c) For purposes of this
article, an organization has achieved full funding of the temporary salary
schedule established by this section when it provides, in total, one hundred
percent of the funds needed to meet the salary funding target as calculated in
October, 2010, in a report, required by a prior enactment of this section, and
presented to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability. Until an organization has achieved full
funding as described and has received certification to this effect from the commission
or council, as appropriate, the following requirements apply:
(1) Classified salary
increases distributed within the organization shall be provided in accordance
with the uniform classification and compensation system established by this
article and rules of the commission and council and shall be applied toward
achieving full funding of the temporary salary schedule; and
(2) An organization may not provide discretionary salary
increases, including merit or performance-based increases, to the president or
chief executive officer of an organization or to any group or class of
employees within the organization, other than classified employees, unless the
organization has achieved full funding of the salary schedule established in
this section or is making appropriate progress toward achieving full funding of
the salary schedule.
(A) This prohibition does not apply to salary increases
mandated by law or funded by the Legislature.
(B) For the purposes of
subdivision (2) of this subsection, "appropriate
progress" has the following
meanings:
(i) For governing boards
under the jurisdiction of the commission, appropriate progress means an
organization has funded at least twenty-five percent of the amount needed to
reach full funding of the salary schedule by July 1, 2012 as calculated
pursuant to this subsection; has funded at least fifty percent of the
calculated amount by July 1, 2013; has funded at least seventy-five percent of
the calculated amount by July 1, 2014 and has funded one hundred percent of the
calculated amount by July 1, 2015; and
(ii) For governing boards
under the jurisdiction of the council, appropriate progress means an
organization has funded at least twenty-five percent of the amount needed to
reach full funding of the salary schedule by July 1, 2013 as calculated
pursuant to this subsection; has funded at least fifty percent of the
calculated amount by July 1, 2014; has funded at least seventy-five percent of
the calculated amount by July 1, 2015 and has funded one hundred percent of the
calculated amount by July 1, 2016.
(d) Once the commission
and council have developed and adopted the market salary structure, minimum
salary schedules, classification and compensation evaluation, and slotting
processes required by section six, article nine-a of this chapter, the
temporary state annual salary schedule set forth below shall be replaced by the
market salary structure set forth in subdivisions (1) and (2) of this
subsection.
(1) The market salary
structure adopted by the commission and council shall include and address all
relevant guidelines, procedures, definitions and directives needed to implement
the new market salary structure. All provisions of this code in conflict with
that new market salary structure are hereby deemed null and void after adoption
of that structure by the commission and council. The commission and council
shall recommend legislation for enactment in the 2018 Legislative session to
incorporate provisions of the new market salary structure adopted by the
commission and council under this subsection.
(2) Prior to adopting
the market salary structure set out herein, the commission and council shall
solicit comments from the affected constituencies regarding that structure.
(3) The commission and
council shall be required to update the Legislative Commission on Education
Accountability during each of its scheduled meetings until January 1, 2018.
TEMPORARY HIGHER EDUCATION CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEE
ANNUAL SALARY SCHEDULE
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
PAY
GRADE |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
1 |
12,809 |
13,094 |
13,385 |
13,677 |
13,968 |
14,274 |
14,580 |
14,900 |
15,221 |
2 |
13,465 |
13,764 |
14,070 |
14,376 |
14,696 |
15,017 |
15,352 |
15,687 |
16,036 |
3 |
14,164 |
14,478 |
14,798 |
15,133 |
15,483 |
15,832 |
16,182 |
16,546 |
16,925 |
4 |
14,908 |
15,250 |
15,599 |
15,949 |
16,313 |
16,692 |
17,085 |
17,478 |
17,872 |
5 |
15,696 |
16,066 |
16,444 |
16,837 |
17,231 |
17,624 |
18,046 |
18,469 |
18,906 |
6 |
16,556 |
16,954 |
17,362 |
17,784 |
18,207 |
18,644 |
19,081 |
19,547 |
20,013 |
7 |
17,489 |
17,915 |
18,352 |
18,804 |
19,255 |
19,721 |
20,202 |
20,697 |
21,192 |
8 |
18,495 |
18,949 |
19,416 |
19,896 |
20,391 |
20,901 |
21,411 |
21,950 |
22,489 |
9 |
19,559 |
20,056 |
20,566 |
21,091 |
21,615 |
22,168 |
22,722 |
23,290 |
23,887 |
10 |
19,916 |
20,421 |
20,938 |
21,484 |
22,029 |
22,602 |
23,176 |
23,763 |
24,379 |
11 |
21,107 |
21,665 |
22,239 |
22,812 |
23,400 |
24,015 |
24,645 |
25,288 |
25,945 |
12 |
22,436 |
23,022 |
23,624 |
24,253 |
24,896 |
25,554 |
26,225 |
26,924 |
27,638 |
13 |
23,837 |
24,477 |
25,134 |
25,805 |
26,505 |
27,218 |
27,945 |
28,701 |
29,470 |
14 |
25,363 |
26,057 |
26,771 |
27,498 |
28,253 |
29,022 |
29,806 |
30,631 |
31,470 |
15 |
27,015 |
27,764 |
28,533 |
29,330 |
30,141 |
30,981 |
31,834 |
32,715 |
33,624 |
16 |
28,821 |
29,624 |
30,449 |
31,316 |
32,197 |
33,092 |
34,030 |
34,981 |
35,974 |
17 |
30,767 |
31,638 |
32,533 |
33,470 |
34,421 |
35,400 |
36,421 |
37,456 |
38,519 |
18 |
32,868 |
33,820 |
34,799 |
35,806 |
36,841 |
37,904 |
39,009 |
40,142 |
41,303 |
19 |
37,613 |
38,718 |
39,855 |
41,022 |
42,219 |
43,460 |
44,747 |
46,064 |
47,410 |
20 |
40,265 |
41,471 |
42,712 |
43,984 |
45,301 |
46,647 |
48,038 |
49,460 |
50,941 |
21 |
43,171 |
44,478 |
45,824 |
47,216 |
48,637 |
50,103 |
51,614 |
53,170 |
54,786 |
22 |
46,332 |
47,754 |
49,220 |
50,731 |
52,272 |
53,873 |
55,534 |
57,224 |
58,975 |
23 |
49,777 |
51,330 |
52,931 |
54,561 |
56,252 |
58,002 |
59,797 |
61,653 |
63,568 |
24 |
53,552 |
55,234 |
56,970 |
58,750 |
60,605 |
62,505 |
64,465 |
66,485 |
68,579 |
25 |
57,462 |
59,483 |
61,383 |
63,328 |
65,348 |
67,427 |
69,567 |
71,781 |
74,070 |
PAY GRADE |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
1 |
15,541 |
15,876 |
16,226 |
16,575 |
16,939 |
17,304 |
17,682 |
2 |
16,386 |
16,750 |
17,129 |
17,507 |
17,886 |
18,294 |
18,687 |
3 |
17,304 |
17,697 |
18,090 |
18,498 |
18,920 |
19,343 |
19,780 |
4 |
18,279 |
18,702 |
19,139 |
19,576 |
20,027 |
20,493 |
20,959 |
5 |
19,343 |
19,794 |
20,260 |
20,741 |
21,222 |
21,717 |
22,227 |
6 |
20,479 |
20,974 |
21,469 |
21,994 |
22,518 |
23,057 |
23,596 |
7 |
21,717 |
22,241 |
22,780 |
23,334 |
23,902 |
24,484 |
25,081 |
8 |
23,042 |
23,610 |
24,193 |
24,805 |
25,416 |
26,043 |
26,684 |
9 |
24,484 |
25,096 |
25,737 |
26,378 |
27,048 |
27,732 |
28,417 |
10 |
25,008 |
25,638 |
26,295 |
26,980 |
27,666 |
28,379 |
29,106 |
11 |
26,617 |
27,316 |
28,015 |
28,757 |
29,498 |
30,267 |
31,064 |
12 |
28,365 |
29,120 |
29,890 |
30,687 |
31,498 |
32,323 |
33,176 |
13 |
30,267 |
31,078 |
31,918 |
32,771 |
33,652 |
34,561 |
35,484 |
14 |
32,323 |
33,204 |
34,114 |
35,051 |
36,002 |
36,981 |
38,002 |
15 |
34,561 |
35,512 |
36,505 |
37,512 |
38,547 |
39,624 |
40,715 |
16 |
36,981 |
38,030 |
39,093 |
40,198 |
41,331 |
42,492 |
43,694 |
17 |
39,624 |
40,757 |
41,918 |
43,121 |
44,352 |
45,611 |
46,925 |
18 |
42,506 |
43,736 |
44,995 |
46,296 |
47,639 |
49,023 |
50,450 |
19 |
48,801 |
50,238 |
51,719 |
53,230 |
54,801 |
56,416 |
58,062 |
20 |
52,452 |
54,023 |
55,623 |
57,284 |
58,990 |
60,755 |
62,550 |
21 |
56,431 |
58,137 |
59,902 |
61,712 |
63,568 |
65,482 |
67,472 |
22 |
60,785 |
62,640 |
64,555 |
66,530 |
68,579 |
70,674 |
72,828 |
23 |
65,527 |
67,562 |
69,656 |
71,826 |
74,040 |
76,344 |
78,708 |
24 |
70,734 |
72,948 |
75,237 |
77,601 |
80,039 |
82,552 |
85,156 |
25 |
76,419 |
78,842 |
81,356 |
83,944 |
86,607 |
89,360 |
92,202 |
NOTE: The
purpose of this bill is to provide that when developed and adopted by the
Higher Education Policy Commission and the Council for Community and Technical
College Education, a new salary structure will replace the schedule that
currently exists for higher education classified employees. The bill also
provides that any provision of law in conflict with the new salary structure is
null and void. The bill, additionally, requires the commission and council to
recommend legislation in 2018 to enact the new market salary structure into law
but prior to adopting the new structure to seek comments from affected
constituents. The commission and council are required to update the Legislative
Commission on Educational Accountability at its meetings.
Strike-throughs
indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and
underscoring indicates new language that would be added.