The University of California plans to provide a general 4.2% salary increase for eligible, policy-covered staff employees and academic employees, contingent on the outcome of the state budget allocation. UC President Drake recently shared his support of the general increase, along with the expectation that should the state budget be significantly altered, an updated announcement may be shared.  

Policy-covered staff employees

• Salary increases will be implemented as a general increase, where all eligible policy-covered staff employees would receive a 4.2% increase to their base salary, effective July 1, 2024, for monthly and June 23, 2024, for bi-weekly paid employees.  
• Although this year's salary program for policy-covered staff is not a merit program where performance is a consideration related to the salary increase amount, the importance of the annual performance review process should not be discounted. All policy-covered staff employees should continue to receive, at least annually, a performance review per policy. 

Policy-covered academic employees 

• For policy-covered academic appointees, the academic salary scales will be increased by a general range adjustment of 4.2%. The adjustment to the academic salary scales will be effective July 1, 2023. 
• The regular peer-review merit advancement process for policy-covered academic appointees will continue per academic personnel policy.

Represented staff and academic employees

• Salary increases for exclusively union-represented employees are governed by their respective collective bargaining unit agreements, which are separate from this salary plan. 

Eligibility criteria and guidelines will be available and shared shortly. For additional questions, please feel free to reach out to Human Resources at humanresources@ucanr.edu.

Dear Colleagues,

The California Apple Commission has released their 2024 request for proposals for research.

CAC Research Priorities for 2024-2025

• Methods of increasing varietal size [Gala]
• Mechanical harvesting for fresh apples
• Packing house automation techniques
• Mechanical pruning
• Thinning methods
• Fire Blight management
• GPS Fresh Apple Acreage Mapping
• Frost detection/prevention technology
• Development of Apple Varieties well suited for California conditions
• Any other topic related to cost reduction/increasing the effectiveness of California apple production.

Applications Due: June 3, 2024

Please see the RFA for specific details: https://ucanr.edu/sites/anrstaff/files/396665.pdf

Thank you.

Kathleen Nolan, Director, ANR Office of Contracts & Grants (OCG)