By Martin McDonough
2022 October Raise
Part of our current Health Care and Wage agreement has the calculation for our annual October raises. Our APA October 2022 contract raise will be 2.00%. This raise is a result of our healthcare savings over the last reporting period.
Be aware that the October 2022 raise will be subject to our contract language that splits that raise with a 40/60 (base/merit) ratio. The 40% base is given to everyone in an APA position. The 60% can be a merit portion determined by the department. The 40% base would equal a 0.8% raise and the remaining 60% merit portion would equate to a 1.2% raise. The total of the raise money must be spent on APA staff and cannot be used to address other budget issues.
You have the right to ask your supervisor how your specific raise percentage was determined. There is nothing in the APA contract that sets upper limits on how much you can receive. You can also ask for an out-of-cycle raise. We can help our dues-paying members prepare for any of these discussions.
To determine what percentage received, a member would do the following steps:
- Determine the previous monthly wage. (From September 2022 EBS payroll statement)
- Determine the new wage. (From notification from your department or through EBS)
- Subtract the September wage from the October wage.
- Divide the difference by the September 2022 wage
- Multiply that value by 100 and round it two decimal places
Please feel free to contact us at the APA office, (517) 999-4004 or [email protected] if you have any questions.