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September 16, 2004


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Staff wages up over 3 percent

Staff members of the college received a pay increase of 3 to 3.5 percent for this fiscal year, which began July 3.

Staff also received a 0.5 percent increase in retirement contributions, according to Melanie Young, associate vice president for human resources.

“In general, each year our equilibrium assumption for all wages, faculty and staff, is for wages to increase at the rate of inflation plus 1.5 percent, which historically has been a good proxy for income growth in this country over long pe…

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