Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 64.54
Liaison Shane Stennes
Submission Date Oct. 25, 2012
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University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
PAE-11: Sustainable Compensation

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 8.00 / 8.00 Shane Stennes
Director of Sustainability
University Services
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Total number of employees working on campus (including contractors):
16,773

Number of employees (including contractors) that the institution ensures earn sustainable compensation:
16,773

A brief description of how the institution ensures that its lowest-paid workers (including contractors, if applicable) receive sustainable compensation:

The University moved, in 2001, to a pay floor of $12.00 an hour for nonacademic staff working 20 or greater hours a week. This pay floor was established through the collective bargaining process. The floor was then adopted for the University’s non-represented Civil Service employees. The non-academic pay floor was increased and/or maintained, since 2001, through successive collective bargaining agreements and the Civil Service Pay Plans.

Minimum salaries have also been established for academic appointments and vary based on job classification. The lowest minimum among academic job classifications is $25,727.

The University’s Office of Human Resources biannually reviews its compensation and recognition systems.

The University’s compensation and recognition principles are three fold:
1) To achieve and maintain compensation and recognition systems that are competitive to appropriate labor markets when combined with other benefits and other rewards;
2)To recognize and reward meritorious performance; and
3)To ensure fair and equitable practices.


The most recent year total compensation for the institution’s lowest-paid workers (including contractors, if applicable) was evaluated to ensure that it was sustainable:
2,009

The website URL where information about the institution’s compensation policies and practices is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

The numbers above only reflect University employees. The University does not track the number of contractors and subcontractors on campus at any given time, but it is the policy of the University of Minnesota that all projects contracted for by the University shall comply with the prevailing wage requirements of Minn. Stat. 177.41 through 177.43. This requirement shall apply regardless of the source of funding.


The numbers above only reflect University employees. The University does not track the number of contractors and subcontractors on campus at any given time, but it is the policy of the University of Minnesota that all projects contracted for by the University shall comply with the prevailing wage requirements of Minn. Stat. 177.41 through 177.43. This requirement shall apply regardless of the source of funding.

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