CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, January 18, 1985
Page 6
Change in pay plan sent to committees
By SHARON ROSSE Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - A proposal to base state employee salaries on a specified "job rate" was introduced yesterday by the state secretary of administration during a joint meeting of the Senate and House Ways and Means committees.
Under the revised plan, classified employees, including those at the University of Kansas, would be promoted to higher pay ranges on the basis of a "job rate." That rate would be based on the current rate of pay, determined by market surveys, for specific jobs.
Employees would move through the pay ranges as they gained seniority and experience in their jobs.
Classified employees are state employees whose job descriptions are identical throughout the state, such as clerk-typeps.
Marvin Harder, the secretary,
outlined the three parts of Gov.
John Carlin's $2.5 million salary
plan for fiscal year 1986.
The revised pay plan was introduced in response to problems with the state's former merit pay system.
IN 1891. A new pay plan was adopted which allowed classified employees to be promoted on the basis of evaluations by their
supervisors. But most of the money available under the plan was used to raise salaries of state employees to levels comparable to employees in the private sector.
because of financial restraints, no merit increases have been awarded and a suspension in employee promotions has existed during the past few years. As a result, he has held at the first three levels of the pay range. This means that a newly hired employee could earn as much as a colleague with more experience and seniority.
The first part of Carlin's plan would solve these problems and cost the state $18.7 million, Harder said.
Employees would be hired at a salary 10 percent below the specified "job rate." Their salaries then would increase at a rate of 2.5 percent every six months for two years. Harder said.
After classified employees reached the standard rate, their salaries would increase 5 percent every five years for the next 15 years, he said.
HARDER ASKED the committees to build the new pay plan into their fiscal 1986 budget rather than pass a separate state pay plan. By doing this, he said, a new plan would not have to be drawn up every three years as in the past.
Med Center funds exceed projections
TOPEKA — The University of Kansas Medical Center has generated $2.8 million more in fiscal year 1985 than anticipated primarily because of an increase in patient admissions, the hospital administrator said yesterday.
Gene Staples, the hospital administrator, told the Board of Regents yesterday that one reason for the surplus was an increase of 15 in the average daily number of patients admitted in December and January in comparison with those months last year.
The Regents also approved a request from KU that it be allowed to extend its law enforcement courses to Johnson County Community College. The KU Division of Continuing Education will conduct the county program, operates the Law Enforcement Training Center in Hutchinson.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said that referrals of patients from doctors around the state was generating more admissions for the Med Center. Budig called the financial status of the Med Center "solid" and said there was a "good hospital census."
The agreement will allow police officers in Johnson County to enroll in 320 hours of courses that the University will certify. Keith Nitcher, university director of business affairs, said Johnson County would not charge tuition for the law enforcement program because it receives state and county aid.
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