As of July 22, UVA’s lowest-earning academic employees will receive $10.65 an hour—a $0.51 raise from the previous hourly rate. The announcement follows recent activities on University grounds by the UVA Living Wage Campaign, which has long petitioned for the school to match the City of Charlottesville’s $11.44 minimum hourly pay rate. A UVA Human Resources manager tells UVA Today that the increase affects more than 300 employees.
As C-VILLE previously reported, employees will pay five percent of salaries to the Virginia Retirement System (VRS), which sets them back from $10.65 to $10.11. The five-percent VRS contribution, passed as part of the budget approved by the General Assembly and Governor Bob McDonnell, would result in an hourly wage that is three cents less than the previous $10.14 hourly rate.