Mount Saint Vincent University
Like other colleagues in Nova Scotia, the faculty association at Mount Saint Vincent University has been negotiating salary and other conditions of employment with the university administration. The faculty has now reached an agreement with the administration, and some of the details of the salary portion of the settlement are summarized here.
November 1, 1997 -- salary scale restored to the values in effect on April 1, 1991. April 1, 1998 -- 1 per cent increases to scale. July 1, 1998 -- 2.5 per cent increase to scale. November 1, 1998 -- first installments catch up. July 1, 1999 -- 2.5 per cent increase to scale. November 1, 1999 -- second installments catch up.
Faculty salary scale, November 1, 1999:
Lecturer - $33,064 - $43,419
Assistant Professor - $39,151 - $55,422
Associate Professor - $48,139 - $73,286
Full Professor - $62,823 - $86,491
There are 32 steps between the floor of the lecturer rank and the ceiling of the full professor rank. Increments between steps are $1,479.
University of Prince Edward Island
The new salary settlement reached at the University of Prince Edward Island provides basic salary adjustments and adjustments in career progress increments for faculty and academic librarians effective July 1, 1998, January 1, 1999, and July 1, 1999. The following tables summarize the settlement.
Effective July 1, 1998 -- basic salary adjustment of 1.2 per cent, and career progress increment of 4.85 per cent of assistant professor minimum salary.
Lecturer - $33,794 - $43,434
Assistant Professor - $39,758 - $57,110
Associate Professor - $51,685 - $75,785
Full Professor - $63,613 - $82,893
Librarian I - $31,866 - $41,506
Librarian II - $37,830 - $53,254
Librarian III - $49,757 - $67,109
Librarian IV - $61,685 - $79,037
Effective January 1, 1999 -- basic salary adjustment of 2 per cent, and career progress increment of 4.85 per cent of assistant professor minimum salary. Effective July 1, 1999 -- basic salary adjustment of 1 per cent, and career progress increment of 4.85 per cent of assistant professor minimum salary.
Lecturer - $34,403 - $44,218
Assistant Professor - $40,474 - $58,141
Associate Professor - $52,616 - $77,156
Full Professor - $64,758 - $84,388
Librarian I - $32,440 - $42,255
Librarian II - $38,511 - $54,215
Librarian III - $50,653 - $68,320
Librarian IV - $62,795 - $80,462
St. Francis Xavier University
The faculty at St. Francis Xavier University also reached a new agreement this year. The salary settlement included an adjustment of 0.97 per cent effective November 1, 1994.
November 1, 1997 -- increase of 3.09 per cent. April 1, 1998 -- increase of 2 per cent. January 1, 1999 -- increase of 2 per cent. September 1, 1999 -- increase of 2 per cent.
Salary scale April 1, 1998 -- There are three steps to the salary scale for Lecturers: $33,431- $36,493. The Assistant Professor scale has nine steps and three more steps will be added in September 1998: $39,555 - $51,803. Associate Professor will also see additional steps in the scale, from the current fourteen to seventeen: $48,741 - $68,844. Two additional steps for Full Professors were added as of September 1, 1997, and three more steps will be added in September 1998, to bring the number of salary steps to eighteen: $62,520 - $83,954.