Some administrators get salary hikes
By JOE GIDDENS
Since summer 2015, the average Pima Community College administrator salary has increased 3.5%, while the average faculty salary has dropped 0.5%, according to a report released by the Pima Community College Education Association, the group that represents the college’s full-time faculty.
Budget woes have been brought on by declining enrollment, yet expenditure limits haven’t been felt equally across college’s employees, according to PCCEA. This is partly because the college is in the middle of a multiyear plan to cut $15 million from its budget.
However, the college did increase staff salaries by 2.5% in fiscal year 2017 as a temporary salary increase.
The severe budget cuts apparently haven’t affected some administrators’ salaries, though, with a third of adminis...