Unfortunately, our university isn't one of those. Though there's always people saying we should be, so we can compete with other universities for people. Especially, if it really is our goal to be one of the top 50 public research univerities by 2025.
I don't know what retiree insurance is like, but I'm sure that I'm spending more out of pocket now than before. Though our insurance doesn't have a pre-existing conditions restriction.... The university where my brother works has a defined-benefit pension plan. And, tons of other benefits. I've heard some universities (like CMU?) offer free tuition to all dependents. But, here we just contribute some percentage of our pay (and get match...though the match is more than what I was getting before in .com) And, then pick funds to watch the balance stay the same. I should really learn more about this investing stuff. Though as long as I stay within the state, when I retire....my distributions will be exempt from state income tax. People that have been here longer than me did have defined-benefit plans. I know there were changes when is started....because at orientation they said ... a year from now when can start contributing to retirement.... it'll be something like picking between one of two providers, etc. But, we'll all learn about it then, so we'll skip that part of the orientation.... We don't do tuition here for dependents....co-worker says the only reason he's still working is because his daughter is still in school, and he has to walk a check over to the administration building for her twice a year. She's a junior this year. Though normally if there's an after hours problem...it has to be something affecting many users on campus to be an emergency. But, when if its just her account that's having problems... it qualifies as an emergency and we'll escalate it through whoever. There's going to be an open forum for faculty and staff to talk about salaries and benefits with administration on the 14th.... > > If you jump from .edu (or .gov) to .com, assuming you don't mind > staying > in the job until retirement? demand a very serious pay raise. a > huge > portion of your pay, in the public sector, doesn't come around until > retirement, so it's not reasonable to just compare money and benfits > now and say you are getting 40% more in the private sector. > > (It's also > completely fair to put in your years in the public sector or .edu, > retire, and then get a job in the private sector, now that you've > solved the health insurance problem.) > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
