Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 39.16
Liaison Kristina Bryan
Submission Date Oct. 9, 2011
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Saint Louis University
PAE-11: Sustainable Compensation

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 8.00 / 8.00 Maurice Muia
Graduate Assistant
Center for Sustainability
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Total number of employees working on campus (including contractors):
4,925

Number of employees (including contractors) that the institution ensures earn sustainable compensation:
4,925

A brief description of how the institution ensures that its lowest-paid workers (including contractors, if applicable) receive sustainable compensation:

Saint Louis University is committed to a compensation administration philosophy which, consistent with its mission as a Catholic Jesuit institution, will provide fairness, internal equity and competitive pay rates for the purposes of attracting, retaining, and motivating employees.

To accomplish these goals, the compensation plan:
*Should be structured to help attract and retain the numbers and kinds of employees required to operate the University.
*Must be reasonably competitive with pay levels and practices that prevail in the various labor markets in which the institution competes.
*Should help to maintain the University in a reasonably competitive position in its product market. The resulting level of compensation must not place the University in a non-competitive cost situation in which the overall compensation results in tuition, fees, and other charges being too high.
*Should be designed in such a way that the associated administrative time costs will be reasonable and in proportion to the other priorities and time demands on the University's financial resources and available management time.
*Must gain employee acceptance. This does not necessarily mean that employees must "approve" pay actions, or that compensation policies and practices are somehow subject to popular vote. It does mean that employees must understand the policies and practices and accept both their concepts and specific actions as being reasonable and impartially administered.
*Must play a positive role in motivating employees to perform their duties to the best of their abilities and in a manner which supports the achievement of institutional goals.
*Must gain acceptance by the institution's "public," which includes, but is not limited to, the Board of Trustees, the government and, to some extent, the general public.
*Must provide opportunity for employees at every level to achieve their reasonable aspirations in a framework of equity, impartiality, and reasonableness.

Annually, University administration will review recommendations, taking into consideration competitiveness of the current labor market, availability of labor (especially in critical-skill occupations), turnover data, and "replacement cost" data, and set the institutional pay policy for the coming fiscal year. The pay policy will reflect the market position at which the University wishes to recruit and pay employees based upon organizational objectives and philosophy.

This philosophy is carried out through compensation policies which have been approved by the President's Coordinating Council.

The lowest hourly rate the University pays is $9.62/hour; minimum wage for the state is $7.25/hour


The most recent year total compensation for the institution’s lowest-paid workers (including contractors, if applicable) was evaluated to ensure that it was sustainable:
2,011

The website URL where information about the institution’s compensation policies and practices is available:
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