2025-26 Academic Salary Scales Issuance Memo (Policy Covered)

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July 10, 2025

By Grace McClintock, Assistant Vice Provost, Academic Personnel  

COLLEGE PROVOSTS
DEANS
DEPARTMENT AND PROGRAM CHAIRS
ASSOCIATE VICE CHANCELLOR, STUDENT HEALTH & WELLNESS
MRU AND ORU DIRECTORS
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN
VICE CHANCELLOR, RESEARCH
ASSOCIATE VICE CHANCELLOR, BUDGET ANALYSIS & PLANNING
VICE CHANCELLOR, FINANCE, OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION
VICE PROVOSTS

Re: 2025-26 Academic Salary Scales Issuance

Dear Colleagues:

We are issuing updated policy-covered academic salary scales per the 2025-26 salary program for academic appointees. All policy-covered academic salary scales and ranges are subject to a 3.2% general range adjustment (subject to rounding and smoothing where applicable). The changes will be effective in either July or October, 2025, as follows:

July 1, 2025 [Effective July 6, 2025 for biweekly paid appointees]

Policy-covered Non-faculty Academic Appointees: 3.2% general range adjustment increase. Includes Continuing Educators, Academic Coordinator Series, Non-represented Professional Research Series, Non-represented Librarian Series, Non-represented Project Scientist Series, and the Non-represented Specialist Series.

Policy-covered Trainee Titles: increase by the 3.2% general range adjustment or to the current California Senate Bill 525 (SB 525) minimum wage, whichever is greater.

Department Chairs and College Provosts: Stipend scales will be increased by the 3.2% general range adjustment.

October 1, 2025 [October 12, 2025, for biweekly paid appointees]

Senate faculty, and other titles paid on the ladder-rank scales: 3.2% general range adjustment subject to rounding and modest smoothing.

Salary scales for represented academic titles are set by the terms of their Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA), and were issued separately this year.

The revised scales are now published in our campus Academic Salary Scales. Please share this information with the appropriate individuals in your unit(s).

If you have any questions, you may direct them to the Academic Personnel Office at apo@ucsc.edu.

Sincerely,                                                                                           

Grace McClintock
Assistant Vice Provost, Academic Personnel

cc:

Associate University Librarian Bono                                         
AVC Staff Human Resources Green                                          
Budget Analysis and Planning Analyst Spires
Employee & Labor Relations Director Kasper                          
Graduate Division Assistant Dean Casher
Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Kletzer
Chancellor Larive
CAPS Director Murphy
College Academic Managers
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Divisional, Library, and UNEX Academic Personnel Coordinators
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