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OHR 2008-025 - Increase in Nursing Title Salary Ranges

Effective June 1, 2008, the salary ranges for the nursing titles used by the Health Science Center will increase.  This increase was accomplished by moving the mid-point of the nursing title salary ranges above the market for the San Antonio Metropolitan area.  Although this is a relatively large increase, it is necessary to recruit and retain qualified nursing staff. 

The attached table includes the nursing titles currently in use at the Health Science Center together with the current salary ranges as well as the new salary ranges. 

If your department uses any of the nursing titles listed above, you need to know the following information.

• The Compensation Team will send an email with a detailed spreadsheet to the Chair and Administrator in each department that is impacted by the salary range increase for the nursing titles.  This spreadsheet will include the names of each employee who will automatically have a salary adjustment because of the upward movement of the salary ranges together with the cost for each employee.  Finally, the spreadsheet will include a total estimated cost for each department. Please review the list of nursing staff included in the spreadsheet against your departmental records to be certain that no one is inadvertently excluded who should receive an increase. 

• In accordance with a prior agreement, each department that is impacted by this change will be required to fund the increased cost resulting from the adjustment of nursing title salary ranges from its own funds.

• This change will take effect on June 1, 2008.  Therefore, you will have until payroll cutoff in June to accomplish changes into the HCM system.

• You may also make structural adjustments to the salaries of other nursing staff who are appointed in one of the nursing titles listed above, up to the mid-point of the new salary ranges, at each department’s discretion.  However, as with the required salary adjustments, these salary increases will also have to be funded by each department. 

• Please brief your Chair of these changes at your earliest convenience.

Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any questions with respect to this adjustment.