2 percent University of Wisconsin pay increase warranted?

Todd Finkelmeyer:

Stop me if you've heard this one before.

The University of Wisconsin System argues its faculty and staff are in desperate need of pay raises in each of the next two years just so these in-demand folks can keep from falling further behind those at peer institutions.

Fiscal conservatives reflexively howl that those within the UW System simply don't understand the magnitude of the budgetary crisis facing Wisconsin and are out of touch for wanting more when everyone else is trying to make do with less.

The latest round of this perpetual battle took place Thursday afternoon at the Memorial Union when a Board of Regents committee voted unanimously to recommend most faculty and academic staff working across the UW System receive a 2 percent pay increase in each of the next two years. The decision by the regents' business, finance and audit committee to back the proposal from UW System President Kevin Reilly will almost certainly be approved by the full board Friday morning.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at December 11, 2010 1:05 AM
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