New Salary Schedule - Noncredit

Most noncredit classes have load factor 0.6 and used to be paid on "Salary Type 7". (Emeritus classes and some short-term vocational classes use different pay scales.) Log into your mProfessor account and click on the "View Teaching/ Banked hours reports" link. Here you should see your Salary Type, Salary Step and Salary Group.

Old noncredit salary schedule


The old hourly rate of pay per teaching hour for a noncredit assignment is shown here. On the left side of a pay stub from Spring 2020, you should see a "RATE" that corresponds to the amount in one of the cells.

General Salary Information and Glossary

Below we will run through an example that shows how your pay will appear in Fall 2020 using the new pay scale Appendix B-1 (or "Salary Type 89"). This new salary schedule is based upon Lecture Hour Equivalents (LHE) - also sometimes called "adjusted hours". This is different to your Weekly Teaching Hours (WTH).

To convert weekly teaching hours into LHE, you must multiply your weekly teaching hours (WTH) for the assignment by the load factor of the assignment and by the number of weeks of your assignment divided by 18! For most noncredit assignments, the number of weeks of the assignment is 16, so the LHE of your assignment would be:

# LHE = # WTH * 0.6 * (16/18) = 0.533 * #WTH

Chairs will now be starting to tell faculty members directly what an assignment's number of LHE's is, along with the WTH, so you shouldn't have to do this calculation yourself.

Example 1:

What you earned before:

      • In Spring 2020, you taught a load factor 0.60 noncredit class that had 4.0 weekly teaching hours (WTH) for 16 weeks. Your Salary Type 7 placement is Step 3, Group 2, which means your hourly pay was $75.11, (from the old salary schedules shown in the table above) and your total pay for the class was $75.11 * 4.0 WTH * 16 weeks = $4,807.04.

What you will earn now:

      • In Fall 2020, you teach the same class. The number of LHE for the class is the 0.533 * WTH = 0.533 * 4.0 = 2.133 LHE. On the new salary schedule Appendix B-1 (Salary Type 89) your placement is Step 8, Group 3, which has an LHE pay of $2,426. So the total pay you receive for the class is 2.133 LHE * $2,426 = $5,174.66. Since the class meets for 4.0 hrs/wk * 16 wks = 64 hours, your hourly rate of pay per scheduled hour of instruction is $5,174.66 / 64 = $80.85 (more than the $75.11 you received last Spring)

Two more thing to remember:

      • Your pay stub does not list your hourly rate of pay per weekly teacher hour. It lists the weekly rate of pay per LHE. So on your pay stub you will always see a higher "RATE" = $80.85/0.6 = $134.75 than what you are receiving per scheduled hour of teaching, because it also covers other work you do to prepare for class that isn't formally scheduled. The higher RATE times the lower UNITS gives you the correct total pay.

      • The example above is for a 16 week assignment: the calculations for LHE would be different for a different length assignment.

I realize this is complicated, but once we become more familiar with the idea of being paid per LHE rather than the deceptive "weekly teacher hour" that doesn't factor in all the extra work you are doing outside of class, this will be simpler.