The Florida House and Senate finalized its state budget for 2022-23, including 5.38 percent pay increases for state workers and a minimum wage of $15 an hour for state employees and school support staffers in school districts across the state.
But what about pay increases for state employees at Florida’s public universities and community colleges?
Lawmakers still have to vote on the budget Monday, but it’s already clear that workers from the higher education system in Florida were excluded from the pay raises in the 2022-23 state budget. The 5.38 percent salary increase is a big bump and meant to address rising inflation, and the minimum wage of $15 will boost pay for many state workers.
Andrew Gothard, president of the United Faculty of Florida told the Florida Phoenix on Friday that pay raise initiatives for state workers in the budget likely won’t include college or university faculty.
“University faculty and staff are typically excluded from those raises,” he said, adding that typically pay raises would come from overall increased funding for particular schools, and local unions would bargain with the schools on what those pay raises would look like.
Gothard said that UFF is pleased to see the increased budget for higher education, “but there is definitely more that could be done,” such as ensuring that “non-tenure-track faculty” are compensated better.
Renee Fargason, spokeswoman for the State University System of Florida, said in an email to the Phoenix that law...
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