WASHINGTON
STATE UNIVERSITY–
Agency 365
2008 Supplemental Budget Request
TECHNICAL CORRECTION:
Underfunding
of Salary Increases (PL-SC)
AGENCY RECOMMENDATION AND FISCAL SUMMARY
The 2007 Legislature mandated general salary increases for all employees and
special salary increases for bargaining unit and civil service employees.
Systems or problems with our data caused many of our job titles for bargaining
unit, civil service and other employees to be excluded from or miscalculated by
the new state salary model and subsequently underfunded. The total cost of these
corrections is $1,936,000.
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2007-08
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2008-09
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2007-09
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Biennium
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FTE
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FTE
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General Fund State
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-
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908,000
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-
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1,028,000
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1,936,000
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NARRATIVE JUSTIFICATION AND IMPACT STATEMENT
These are technical corrections, many of which were discussed with legislative
and OFM staff during and immediately after session. Only recently through
reconciliation between CIM-AI and WSU records, and collaboration with OFM budget
and IT staff has the full size of the problem been determined.
Without this funding WSU would have to absorb the funding in its general budget.
Please note that two years ago similar miscalculations were identified by WSU. In
that case WSU was over-funded for the salary increases. WSU
returned $3,297,000 in the 2006 supplemental budget.
Specifically, our technical correction request includes the following items:
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Insufficient funding for our nine-month
employees for the non-represented 3.2%/2.0% increase. The
calculation assumptions in the OFM salary model did not fit our
nine-month employees resulting in insufficient funding.
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3.2%/2.0% increases were not funded for the
amount of the special classified increases (salary survey, step L, class
consolidation, agency request). The
3.2% increase was calculated on the pre-classified increase base.
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3.2%/2.0% increases for our hourly employees
were underfunded because of faulty WSU data in the CIM-AI. Consequently,
the model gave us only negligible funding.
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Class Consolidation funding was insufficient
because of a formatting problem with our title codes. Many
job titles were excluded from the model’s calculation.
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Salary Survey and Agency Request increases were
underfunded and may be related to the same problem as in the above item.
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The conference budget did not fund shift
differential increases mandated in the bill.
Amounts of these corrections are shown in the table on the next page.
Please note we are not requesting the funding that was deliberately
excluded from the salary pool by legislative policy on locally-funded salary
increases.
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Summary of Funding Requests(dollars in thousands)
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Conference
Budget-both years
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WSU Need-both years
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Supplemental Request
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Non-rep 3.2%/2.0% increase insufficient for 9
month employees
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18,431
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19,144
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713
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3.2%/2.0% incr. on salary survey, step L, class
consolidation increases
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-
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103
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103
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3.2%/2.0% incr. on non-student hourly employees
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6
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548
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542
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Class Consolidation
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2
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354
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352
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Salary Survey
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1,459
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1,565
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106
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Agency Request
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10
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80
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70
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Shift Differential
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-
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50
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50
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1,936
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Request by Year
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Year 1
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Year 2
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Total
Biennium
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GF-2
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GF-S
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GF-S
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Non-rep 3.2%/2.0% increase insufficient for 9
month employees
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387
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326
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713
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3.2%/2.0% incr. on salary survey, step L, class
consolidation increases
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47
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56
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103
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3.2%/2.0% incr. on non-student hourly employees
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190
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352
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542
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Class Consolidation
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176
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176
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352
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Salary Survey
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53
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53
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106
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Agency Request
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35
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35
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70
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Shift Differential
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20
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30
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50
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908
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1,028
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1,936
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*Non-rep
3.2%/2.0% increase for 9 month employees: Calculation assumptions in the
CIM model insufficiently funded our 9 month employees
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*3.2%/2.0%
increases on classified salary survey, step L, class consolidation
increases were not funded in budget
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*3.2%/2.0%
incr. on non-student hourly employees. WSU
data problems resulted in underfunding of non-student hourly
employees
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*Class Consolidation: a
formatting problem with our data caused many of our job titles
to be excluded from the OFM salary model.
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*Salary
Survey: Appropriations will
not cover WSU costs for this item for the biennium.
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*Agency
Request: Underfunding may
have been caused by the formatting problem as in Class Consolidations
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*Shift
Differential: The conference
budget did not fund the shift differential increase authorized in the
bill.
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FISCAL DETAILS
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By Program
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FTE
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FY 08
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FTE
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FY 09
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TOTAL
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Instruction
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362,000
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415,000
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777,000
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Research
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121,000
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137,000
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258,000
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Public Service
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88,000
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100,000
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188,000
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Primary Support
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77,000
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87,000
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164,000
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Libraries
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36,000
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39,000
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75,000
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Student Service
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48,000
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54,000
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102,000
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Institutional Support
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68,000
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78,000
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146,000
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Plant
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108,000
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118,000
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226,000
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Total
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908,000
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1,028,000
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1,936,000
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By Object
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FTE
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FY 08
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FTE
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FY 09
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TOTAL
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Salaries/
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Faculty
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172,000
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145,000
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317,000
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Admin/Prof
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75,000
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63,000
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138,000
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Classified
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344,000
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350,000
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694,000
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Graduates
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21,000
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