Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	67.80
Liaison	Jim Walker
Submission Date	Nov. 4, 2024

STARS v2.2

University of Texas at Austin
PA-12: Employee Compensation

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	0.00 / 3.00

"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Part 1. Living wage for employees

The local living wage (based on a family of four and expressed as an hourly wage):

26.92 US/Canadian $

Percentage of employees that receive a living wage (benefits excluded):

Part 2. Living wage for employees of contractors

Does the institution have significant contractors with employees that work on-site as part of regular and ongoing campus operations?:

Yes

A list or brief description of significant on-site contractors:

Majority of contractors are doing repair and new construction work. Other contractors include event work, medical staffing, food service providers, and recreational sports trainer/instructors.

Percentage of employees of on-site contractors known to receive a living wage or be covered by collective bargaining agreements (i.e., union contracts):

Part 3. Minimum total compensation for employees

Total compensation provided to the institution’s lowest paid regular, part-time or full-time employee or pay grade meets or exceeds what percentage of the living wage?:

None of the above (i.e. the lowest paid regular employee or pay grade earns less than the living wage)

A brief description of the minimum total compensation provided to the institution’s lowest paid employee or pay grade:

The minimum rate of pay for university employees is $15.00/hr.

Optional Fields

Has the institution made a formal commitment to pay a living wage?:

A copy or brief description of the institution’s written policy stating its commitment to a living wage:

We do not have a definition of a living wage and believe we pay a competitive minimum wage

Website URL where information about employee compensation is available:

https://hr.utexas.edu/current/compensation

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

https://policies.utexas.edu/policies/category/human-resources/benefitscompensation

To calculate the local living wage, we selected the Two Working Adults because we believe in a household with two adults that it likely they both work. However, the issue with this selection is that we don’t know how much the other adult is making, so we could be over-reporting how many employees are actually below the Living Wage (or under-reporting how many are above). As such, we based calculations on the employee's rate/salary and did not prorate it.