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OU President James Gallogly announces faculty raise plan aimed at moving towards competitive wages

James Gallogly

OU president James Gallogly wears a championship hat after the Big 12 Championship win against Texas Dec. 1.

 Caitlyn Epes/The Daily

OU President James Gallogly announced a market-based faculty compensation adjustment he intends to present to the Board of Regents for approval next week. 

In an email sent to members of the OU community Friday, Dec. 7, Gallogly wrote that the program will affect the compensation of full-time instructional faculty on the Norman campus, at the OU law school and OU's Tulsa campus. 

According to the email, this program would bring OU closer to a marketplace benchmark that Gallogly said was determined by a standardized benchmark. 

"The proposal includes a minimum 1.5% market-based salary increase (or a minimum of $1000), a maximum 6% market-based salary increase, and a 1.5% salary increase (or a minimum of $1000), for individuals already paid above the benchmark or where benchmark salaries were not available," Gallogly wrote in the email. 

If approved by the Regents, the program would take effect Jan. 1, 2019. According to the email, faculty furthest below the benchmark would potentially receive the highest increase. 

The cost for the Norman program will be $4.6 million and $308,000 for OU law and the Tulsa campus. 

Since taking office, Gallogly has promised on numerous occasions that he would seek compensation increases for faculty members. 

"As I have indicated before, we are transitioning from investment in 'bricks and mortar' to investment in human capital – our people," Gallogly wrote in the email. "A top priority has been finding ways to ensure that our dedicated faculty and staff are paid at competitive levels."

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