UF Trustees approve largest raises in 2 decades for faculty and staff
University of Florida (UF) faculty and staff are about to get a bump in pay after the school’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved the most substantial raises employees have seen in two decades.
Under the merit raise approval, faculty will get a 4% increase in pay, while staff workers at the university will get a 3.75% pay hike.
“I asked the university to find savings of $25 million that we would then invest in our faculty,” board Chair Mori Hosseini said.
“As a result of our $25 million in overhead savings, our state’s generous investment in the University of Florida, and our continued focus on making sure our faculty and staff are taken care of, we approved historic merit raise pools fo...
