APA 2024 and 2025 Health Care & Wage Increases
The APA has confirmed that the base wage increase for October 2025 will be 1.9%. The increase for October 2024 was 2.0 %. These are contract raises and cannot be taken away without your approval. As a reminder, the APA negotiates our contracts that ensure fully funded health care, a minimum salary by grade level, and annual eligible base wage increases. Health care will continue to be fully MSU-funded with no employee premium for the base plan for single, double, and family coverage through December 31, 2024.
Our benefit package is a combination of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the University and the Coalition of Labor Organizations at MSU and our Administrative Professional Association (APA) contract. Under the MOU our health care benefits and the annual raise percentages are included. Under our APA contract, the APA member benefits are defined specifically for those in APA positions, including the minimum wage for the specific levels. It is noteworthy that the APA contract works as a floor and there is no ceiling for the salary increase amount or maximum annual salary.
For October 2026, under the MOU, the health care cost increase will continue to be measured using the average union member health care cost increase. As with this notice, once we know the health care cost increase for each measuring year and the associated base wage increase amount, we will communicate with the APA membership accordingly.
The MOU is due to expire on December 31, 2024, and we will be part of that negotiation. Our APA contract is a 4-year contract and expires September 1, 2027.
A More Detailed Explanation of the October raises
The APA wage increases for the coming years are as follows:
-October 2024: 2.0% across the board. The previous merit split was removed during the last round of contract negotiations. This does not prevent anyone from receiving additional out-of-cycle raises.
-October 2025: 1.9% across the board. The previous merit split was removed during the last round of contract negotiations. This does not prevent anyone from receiving additional out-of-cycle raises.
While 100% of the funds negotiated by the APA for annual wage increases must be distributed in full to APA members each year in October, a department is fully permitted under the APA contract to provide a greater wage increase in October, or extend an out-of-cycle wage increase in any month, provided the department accounts for the funding in their budget and it is processed through HR.
To confirm you received the full 2.0% this October
To confirm a member received the proper October 2024 raise, a member would do the following steps:
Determine the previous monthly wage. (From September 2024 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 2024 wage
Multiply that value by 100 and round it two decimal places
Further Questions?
We hope that the above information helps inform your understanding of the upcoming annual APA wage increases and fully funded health care coverage. You can review a copy of the entire joint wage and health care agreement on the APA website at: http://lay.wyz.mybluehost.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/MSUCoalition2022-2025.pdf
If you did not receive the full October raise, please contact the APA immediately. (517) 999-4004 or [email protected]