SMC Faculty Association - New Faculty Members

New Faculty Member Salary

Fall 2020 is the first year that the new universal part-time faculty salary schedule has been used. It is directly tied to the full-time faculty schedule with every cell exactly 85% of what a full-time faculty member with those credentials and experience would earn for 1.0 Lecture Hour Equivalent (LHE). The other 15% of a full-time faculty member's salary is for other departmental and college related duties beyond either their classes or non-instructional assignments. This is also the first semester that previous experience at another college can be counted toward initial Step placement - if you have previous relevant experience, you could be placed at up to Step 4 on the salary schedule.

When you are onboarded by Human Resources, they will assess your credentials to determine what Group you are in and will assess your relevant experience to determine your Step placement (no prior experience places you on Step 1). Once you know your Step and Group, you know how much you will be paid per LHE for the semester. You can see the total amount in the image below, a section of Salary Schedule B-1.

General salary information:

It doesn't matter what your specific assignment is, once you know the total LHE of your assignment for the semester, you simply multiply the amount in your cell by that LHE and you know what your total pay will be for the semester. So if you were in Group 3, Step 2, and had an assignment for Fall of 7.5 LHE, your total pay for Fall would be 7.5 * $1,789 = $13,417.50. If you were in Group 7, Step 4, with the maximum possible part-time assignment of 10 LHE (= 67% of a full-time assignment), you'd be paid 10 * $2,302 = $23,020. This is true for teaching and non-teaching. Below I will expand on some specific cases.

The UNITS listed on a pay stub do not represent hours worked, but are the number of weeks in the pay cycle times the LHE of the assignment, as long as the assignment is for 18 weeks. The first two pays of a semester (Fall: September, October; Spring: March, April) are for 4 weeks of pay, and the last two pays (Fall: November, December; Spring: May, June) are for 5 weeks of pay. Again, note that if your assignments are not spread over 18 weeks, the UNITS will be split out differently over the semester, but your total pay for the assignment is still just determined by the total LHE of the assignment.

Completely instructional assignments:

A specific course has a set number of LHE that it is equivalent to, independent of whether it is taught over the whole semester or just 8 weeks, or in an intersession. So you first need to know what the LHE for the course is (e.g. COUNS 1 = 1.0 LHE, COUNS 12 = 1.0 LHE, COUNS 20 = 3.0 LHE). You can calculate the LHE of a course by multiplying the weekly teaching hours of the course by its load factor, both found in Appendix H. Or you can ask your chair!

Example

If you have an assignment of one COUNS 20 course (3 LHE), and are in Group 3, Step 1 (cell = $1,719) you will be paid 3 * $1,719 = $5,157 to teach that one course. Your pay stub will show a RATE that is equal to the amount in your cell ($1,719) divided by 18 weeks = $95.50, which is really the weekly pay per LHE.

Your pay is for all the duties related to your assignment: all the instructional hours, grading, course preparation, and office hours. It is not appropriate to say what the "hourly pay rate" will be for that course because the many hours spent outside of classroom on that assignment are not well defined. Instead, it is more accurate to say that you are being paid a salary to complete a task, independent of the hours it takes you. That's how full-time instructional faculty are treated, and that's how part-time faculty should be treated as well.

Completely non-instructional assignment:

The weekly assigned hours of any assignment multiplied by the load factor of that assignment gives you the weekly LHE of the assignment. All non-instructional assignments are load factor 0.50, so this means that an assignment of two hours of counseling per week for a full semester is equal to an assignment of one LHE. 18 hours of counseling per week for a full semester is equal to an assignment of 9 LHE.

Example 1

If you have a counseling assignment of 6.0 hours per week for a full semester (= 3 LHE), and are in Group 3, Step 1 (cell = $1,719) you will be paid 3 * $1,719 = $5,157 for that assignment. Your pay stub will show a RATE that is equal to the amount in your cell ($1,719) divided by 18 weeks = $95.50, which is really the weekly pay per LHE, and therefore your pay per scheduled hour of counseling is half of that amount, $47.75.

Example 2

If you have a counseling assignment of 18 hours per week for a full semester (= 9 LHE), and are in Group 7, Step 3 (cell = $2,232) you will be paid 9* $2,232 = $20,088 for that assignment. Your pay stub will show a RATE that is equal to the amount in your cell ($2,232) divided by 18 weeks = $124.00, which is really the weekly pay per LHE, and therefore your pay per scheduled hour of counseling is half of that amount, $62.00.

Combination assignment:

Example 1

If you have a teaching assignment of LIBRARY 1 (1 LHE) and a reference desk assignment of 10.0 hours per week for the semester (= 5 LHE), and are in Group 3, Step 1 (cell = $1,719), you will be paid 6 * $1,719 = $10,314 for the total of 6 LHE for your assignment. Your pay stub will show a RATE that is equal to the amount in your cell ($1,719) divided by 18 weeks = $95.50, which is really the weekly pay per LHE, not an hourly rate for your assignment.

Example 2

If you have a teaching assignment of two COUNS 1 classes (total of 2.0 LHE) and a counseling assignment of 9.0 hours per week for the semester (= 4.5 LHE), and are in Group 5, Step 2 (cell = $1,973), you will be paid 6.5 * $1,973 = $12,824.50 for the total of 6.5 LHE for your assignment. Your pay stub will show a RATE that is equal to the amount in your cell ($1,973) divided by 18 weeks = $109.61, which is really the weekly pay per LHE, not an hourly rate for your assignment.

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