Salary Support Expectations for AI Faculty in Research Departments
Date: February 2025
Number: 1.640
Status: Final
Contact Office:
Director of Faculty Affairs
PO Box 800793
phone: 434-243-4078
Oversight Executive:
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development
PO Box 800793
phone: 434-924-9030
Applies to:
All faculty on the tenured or tenure-eligible, Academic Investigator (AI) track whose primary appointment is in a research department in the School of Medicine except for faculty who are in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME). Salary expectations for BME faculty are governed by a separate policy that applies to faculty members in the School of Medicine and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Reason for Policy:
This policy outlines the salary support expectations for all AI faculty in research departments in the School of Medicine.
Definition of Terms:
Faculty: Any individual who has a faculty contract for full- or part-time employment with the School of Medicine, is compensated for their effort, and who is not a member of classified staff, professional/administrative faculty (who are covered by the Employment of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty policy), or the professional research staff (research assistants, research associates, research scientists, senior scientists, or principal scientists, who are covered by the Professional Research Staff policy).
Policy Statement:
ACADEMIC INVESTIGATORS IN RESEARCH DEPARTMENTS The School of Medicine has an expectation that tenured and tenure-track academic investigators with three or more years of academic service, including tenure-track or equivalent work at previous institutions, fund at least the following portion of total base salary, administrative supplements and associated fringe benefits from extramural sources:
- 50.0% by July 2023
- 53.3% by July 2024
- 54.0% by July 2025
- 56.0% by July 2026
- 58.0% by July 2027
- 60.0% by July 2028 and ongoing
Extramural sources will include faculty salary supported by interdepartmental service MOUs.
For faculty with 20% or greater institutionally funded effort for leadership and education positions (as identified in the Institutional Funding Plan [IFP]), the salary expectations will be applied to the portion of salary not funded by the IFP.
Individual department chairs may implement higher minimum expectations but they may not implement lower expectations than those set by the School.
Related Policies and Guidelines:
1.620 Basic Science Incentive Plan
1.630 Clinical Faculty Remuneration Plan
School of Medicine Faculty Compensation
For current minimum salaries from the Budget Office
http://www.virginia.edu/budget/
HRM-003 Employment of Administrative or Professional General Faculty Members
https://uvapolicy.virginia.edu/policy/HRM-003
HRM-033 Employment of Professional Research Staff
https://uvapolicy.virginia.edu/policy/HRM-033
HRM-035 University Faculty Salaries and Bonuses
https://uvapolicy.virginia.edu/policy/HRM-035
Annual Performance Reviews
https://provost.virginia.edu/academic-policies/annual-performance-reviews
Guidelines for General Faculty Staffing Due to Financial Stringency
https://provost.virginia.edu/guidelines-for-general-faculty-staffing-due-to-financial-stringency
Revision History:
Created March 13, 2007; revised May 15, 2007; policy links updated 3/31/14; administrative updates 1/29/15; 1/22/18; administrative updates 7/27/20; administrative update 11/9/20; administrative update 2/3/23; administrative update 10/18/23; administrative update 2/6/25
Approved:
Melina R. Kibbe, MD
February 2025