To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff
           <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Vice President and Chancellor Robert A. Easter" <chancellor@illinois.edu>

Reply-To: chancellor@illinois.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Announcement of General Salary Program

I am pleased to write you today that President Hogan has authorized a 
merit-based general salary program of 3 percent, except where union 
settlements dictate otherwise. During the Legislative session we received 
what can only be called in these times a favorable budget outcome: a 1.15 
percent reduction in the state's appropriation to the University. 
	
As you well know, we have done very careful planning on this campus over 
the past few years to meet budget reductions and to position ourselves to 
move forward within this constrained environment to where we are now able 
to fund the salary program this year. Those efforts have made a 
difference. I know and appreciate that every employee on this campus has 
worked long and hard under difficult fiscal restraints without increases 
in salary for almost three years. That is why I am especially pleased to 
be able to finally award the great efforts of our dedicated employees. 

With gratitude to all,

Bob Easter
Vice President and Chancellor (Interim)
This mailing approved by:
The Office of the Chancellor

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