Note that Maymester teaching is not considered summer employment. See COE: Maymester (Intersession) Faculty Appointments for guidance.

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Academic HR Partners should add teaching or non-teaching summer jobs for the period May 16-August 15 (in summer 2024 only, dates are June 1-August 15) with associated Scheduled Weekly Hours (SWH) first, in order to bring the faculty member up to 40 SWH. Any remaining payment still owed to the faculty member should subsequently be processed as additional pay (via Allowance or One-Time Payment) on the summer job. See Additional employment on this page for more information.

Scheduled Weekly Hours (SWH)

• If a faculty member is conducting sponsored research, use the period of performance and number of SWH equal to their time and effort on the grant.

• If a faculty member is not performing duties related to sponsored research, adjust their number of SWH to equal the total payment amount over the period of performance.

• If the period of performance covers both the academic year (August 16-May 15) and summer (May 16-August 15), follow academic year guidance.

Summer Monthly Rate

Institutional Base Salary is annual compensation paid for a faculty member’s appointment (9 or 12 months), whether their time is spent on research, teaching, administration, or other activities. Total Institutional Base Salary includes the faculty member’s Academic Rate plus compensation earned from Faculty Endowed and/or Faculty Non-Endowed Supplements.

Institutional Base Salary does not include compensation earned from other types of one-time or recurring supplemental payments, including administrative supplements, instructional overload allowances, or compensation for special programs and activities. Additionally, Institutional Base Salary does not include payments from other organizations or income that faculty are permitted to earn outside of their institutional responsibilities, such as consulting.

The Summer Monthly Rate for faculty with nine-month appointments should be calculated at one-ninth of their Institutional Base Salary for each month of summer effort. For example, a faculty member with a nine-month Academic Rate of $90,000 and a Faculty Endowed Supplement of $10,000 will have a summer monthly rate of $11,111.11:

• Institutional Base Salary: $90,000 + $10,000 = $100,000
  Summer Monthly Rate: $100,000 / 9 = $11,111.11

Processing summer faculty appointments in Workday

Who processes what?

Dean's Office Faculty Affairs will add department chair appointments to the appropriate tab for each department, and will process the corresponding business process in Workday. Any appointments for a department chair acting in the capacity of faculty member, for instance, teaching or research, should be added to the spreadsheet and processed by the department.

Summer appointments for Associate Deans are processed on their A&P positions. COE Faculty Affairs will add these appointments to department spreadsheets and process them in Workday.

Assignments funded by Sponsored Research will be added to the spreadsheet by COERA, but the corresponding business processes should be processed by the department.

Tools

• Workday: Summer Guidance for Faculty

• EVPP: Guidelines for Charging Faculty Summer Salary to Sponsored Projects

• Workday: Job Costing Tools

• Box (access restricted) > COE-HR-MATERIALS for 20XX Faculty Summer Assignments:

  • Template

  • Job Costing Tool

  • COE Faculty Summer Assignment Guidance

Preparing the department faculty summer employment spreadsheet

1. COE Faculty Affairs will create spreadsheets for each academic department on Box, named "[Your department} - 20XX Summer Faculty". Example: SPE - 2024 Summer Faculty.

2. Department AMs/Academic HR Partners: Run Workday report "Academic Summer Rate (Monthly) - RPT0806" for all of the supervisory organizations in your department.

3. Create a separate tab on the single spreadsheet for each of your tenured, tenure-track and 9-month professional-track faculty members who will need summer additional jobs, and sort tabs alphabetically by last name. For the "Financial" columns H-J on the spreadsheet, use corresponding information from RPT0806 (see step 1 above), and verify that amounts in the "Summer Rate - Monthly" columns on both match exactly.

4. Follow the instructions on the template to complete the spreadsheet. Each tab should show the full picture of each faculty member's assignments for that summer, with each job listed as a separate line. Review carefully to ensure that the faculty member is at no point assigned to more than 40 Scheduled Weekly Hours (SWH) for any segment during June 1-August 15, and that total compensation for the summer does not exceed three months at 100% - Workday is unable to audit this.

   1. If a single job will vary in SWH over the summer, it should be broken into separate date spans. For example, if a single job is 30 hours from 6/1 to 7/15, and then 20 hours 7/16-7/31, it should be listed as two jobs.

   2. Example:

      1. Job 1: 5/16-6/31: 30 hours

      2. Job 2: 7/1-8/15: 20 hours

5. Once COE Faculty Affairs gives the go-ahead, process summer assignments in Workday - one business process per Add Job. Refer to COE Faculty Summer Assignment Guidance on Box for college guidance and requirements. See CSU Faculty Summer Jobs Initiator and Approver Checklist for step-by-step instructions.

Processing summer employment in Workday

• Employee type: Always use "Fixed Term" for summer jobs for 9-month faculty. Benefits eligibility should match their status the previous spring, either benefits eligible or non-benefits eligible.

• For each Add Job processed in Workday, upload a copy of the spreadsheet to the business process, in whatever state of completion it is in. As summer processing is ongoing, it is not necessary that the spreadsheet be fully-completed for all faculty members in the department when uploaded. Ensure only that the information for the relevant tab matches what is in the business process for that faculty member, and that no segment exceeds 40 total SWH.

• For SRAs, upload a copy of the signed SRA Acceptance form to the Workday business process.

• For summer salary included as part of an offer or retention letter, upload a copy of the signed letter to the Workday business process.

• Explain briefly and clearly in business process comments any circumstances not readily apparent within the Workday business process that may help approvers in their review. Comments can also be useful in revisiting a business process later.

• Mark off on the departmental spreadsheet each job as routed forward for approvals, in the column "Dept. - completed". The Dean's Office will also mark off each item on the spreadsheet as they are approved forward in Workday.

Administrative appointments

Describe in Workday BP comments the administrative work to be performed and/or role to be held. Give each administrative appointment a unique name in Workday including dates of service, such as "Graduate Advisor 6/1-6/30." Indicate department chair approval of the additional job and compensation in BP comments, including approval date. Example: “Approved by [Chair Name] on MM/DD/YYYY.” Upload any additional documentation as relevant (offer letter, email exchange, etc.) that help provide context and background information for the additional job.

Allowances and One-Time Payments

The usages of One-Time Payment and Allowance are different during the summer (May 16-August 15) than during the nine-month academic appointment period of August 16-May 15. Generally, work performed during the summer should be processed as summer Additional Jobs, up to a total of 40 Scheduled Weekly Hours (SWH). Once the 40 SWH limit has been reached, any remaining payment still owed to the faculty member should then be processed as additional pay via Allowance or One-Time Payment. For 9-month faculty, all compensation must be processed on an Additional Job rather than on their primary 9-month faculty position. Additional compensation for teaching organized courses should be paid via Instructional Overload allowance, and non-teaching (administrative) work should use compensation plan Academic Activities. Work on sponsored projects and grants cannot be paid by Allowance or One-Time Payment. See COE: Additional Employment and Allowances > Allowance and One-Time Payment for guidance on using Allowance vs. One-Time Payment.

Benefits eligibility

If a faculty member was benefits-eligible in the immediately-preceding spring, they will also be benefits-eligible in the summer. For more information on faculty summer benefits, see COE: Benefits and Eligibility - Faculty > Summer insurance coverage for faculty

Instructional overload

Instructional Overload prior-approval forms are not required during the summer, although the department may upload one to the appropriate business process if they choose to do so. If an assignment meets the definition of Instructional Overload and a form is not used, the associated Workday business process should include notes indicating chair approval, for example: "Instructional overload approved by Chair Name on MM/DD/YYYY".  Use payment plan "Academic Activities." See COE: Additional Employment and Allowances > Process - summer IO for more information.

Job Costing Tool (JCT)- summer

See Workday: Job Costing.

Instructions

1. Download the Faculty Summer Job Costing Tool from Workday: Job Costing. Ensure you are using the most current version.

2. Select the appropriate Fiscal Year from the drop-down menu.

3. Select the appropriate option from the Job Family drop-down menu, also outlined in red at #1 below. This will usually be "Faculty."

4. Select "No" for "Apply mid-month proration."

5. Complete the appropriate mini-tool on the right-hand side of the page.

   1. For course instruction with a salary cap, use "Calculating Scheduled Weekly Hours Based on Known Funds." 

New hires

New hires starting in summer

When a new professional-track hire is brought on for the summer only, the PAR pushes a Summer New Hire Salary plan to Workday, but it does not push a corresponding Academic Salary plan that would result in them being paid into the long semester (because they are not expected to continue into the long semester). Unfortunately, this also means they will not be picked up on an EIB because a salary plan must be in place on 8/16 to “convert” to a No-Pay Salary Plan. An inactivation will need to be processed manually. Please be sure to add the No-Pay Salary Plan.

New fall-start faculty with summer early start dates

Summer Additional Jobs should be processed only for faculty who already have active faculty assignments in Workday. For new hires with a summer start date, their initial assignment will be pushed to Workday via PAR, and no Summer Additional Job business process will be needed. Instead, once the appointment has pushed to Workday, the home department should confirm that assignment details in Workday are correct. and make any needed updates via Workday Change Job business process.

Offer/retention/counteroffer letters

1) Include comments in the appropriate line of the COE Faculty Summer Assignments spreadsheet - example "1 month salary per PAR" (actual wording up to department).

2) Upload a copy of the offer/retention/counteroffer letter to the BP, along with the usual documentation (COE summer salary spreadsheet, JCT, etc.).

3) During review of the Workday BP, COE Faculty Affairs will update summer salary used on Microsoft List "TTT Faculty Employment Lifecycle," view "Summer salary per offer letter paid."

Option III

COE Policy

The College of Education does not have a policy on Option III courses, and Option III courses are not subject to the College teaching salary cap. Follow any applicable established department policies and standards. Workload and amount are at the discretion of the department chair but should be consistent within the department. 

UT Policy

See Option III Guidelines PDF - page 5 on faculty compensation.

Process

For nine-month faculty, compensation for work done during the summer should be compensated via summer Additional Job, as long as doing so does not result in a total of more than 40 Scheduled Weekly Hours across all summer jobs during any given time period. Any portion of Option III compensation that would result in more than 40 SWH should be paid via One-Time Payment or Allowance, on top of the summer jobs.

Department chair approval of Option III payments is required prior to processing - please include comments in the Workday business process indicating approval - for example, "Option III payment approved by Chair Name on MM/DD/YYYY." 

Option III courses do not generate teaching load credits. 

Research appointments - Guidelines for charging faculty summer salary to sponsored projects

Review these resources

• Guidelines for Charging Faculty Summer Salary to Sponsored Projects

• FAQ - Guidelines for Charging Faculty Summer Salary to Sponsored Projects

• OSP: Salary Compensation Reports > section "Guidelines for Charging Faculty Summer Salary to Sponsored Projects" 

Policy

Per University policy, faculty may not be appointed 100% on sponsored funding during the summer. Faculty may commit up to 95% on sponsored funds, with the remaining 5% on discretionary funds, if available.

If faculty are required to be appointed during the summer for three months equivalent on sponsored research funds regardless of FTE, then costing will need to be adjusted to account for that. 

An exception process is described below for faculty that are truly devoted to 100% sponsored research.

Exception process

Faculty may also request an exception to charge 100% effort for three full summer months to their grant(s), but this request will require signing an Attestation that 100% of effort for all three months will be devoted only to the applicable grant(s) and to no other activities or personal leave. This Attestation must be approved prior to the summer appointment being made. All Attestations must be approved by the Dean.

Example

If an appointment is more than 38 SWH and 100% funded on a 26-account for more than one month, a completed attestation form must be uploaded to the Workday business process. Alternatively, reduce the SWH to 38 or fund 95% on a 26-account and 5% on another non-sponsored account.

Instructions for exception process

Note that the Attestation Form does not include separate lines for each of the individuals described below. Additional signature fields may be added, however in DocuSign - please add these near the existing signature lines.

1. Faculty member consults with their department chair about submitting an Attestation.

2. If the Chair approves, faculty member completes and signs the Attestation Form linked on Salary Compensation Reports - Office of Sponsored Projects (utexas.edu) > section "Guidelines for Charging Faculty Summer Salary to Sponsored Projects".

3. Faculty member works with department Administrative Manager. Administrative Manager routes form in DocuSign as follows:

   1. Department Chair: Needs to sign

   2. Office of Research Support & Compliance: coi@austin.utexas.edu: Needs to sign

   3. Associate Dean for Research: Needs to sign – add “Approve” button only instead of signature line

   4. Dean.Education@austin.utexas.edu: Needs to sign

   5. COERA@austin.utexas.edu (or for Centers, the appropriate research administrator): Receives a copy

   6. COE-FacultyAffairs@austin.utexas.edu: Receives a copy

4. A PDF of the fully-signed form should be uploaded to the associated business process in Workday, and a copy retained for department personnel files.

Scenarios - professional-track summer appointments

See additional scenarios at Workday: Faculty Summer Job Scenario Matrix.

Scenario 1:  A professional track faculty member’s current contract ends May 31, 2024, with no planned summer assignment. 

Scenario 2: A professional track faculty member's current contract ends May 31, 2024, but they will be teaching in summer 2024.

Teaching assignments

Compensation - summer teaching assignments

COE policy: $9,000 cap per course; faculty earning less than $54,000 will be prorated below that amount.

If a class is co-taught, then the total compensation cannot exceed $9,000 per class. For example, if teaching duties are shared by two faculty members 50/50, then each faculty member receives $4,500. The Workday business process comments should indicate the proportion of the split (e.g. 50/50), and the name of the faculty member teaching the other part.

Process - summer teaching assignments

See Workday: Academic Employment for instructions and guidance on processing summer faculty assignments.

Required Workday business process comments

• Unique course ID of class being taught

• If a faculty member teaches two classes in the summer, note department chair’s approval in the Workday business process comments, including date of approval

• If a faculty member teaches two classes in the same summer session, Dean’s approval is required in addition to Chair’s approval – both noted in the Workday business process comments, including date of approval.

Please send suggested additions to this page and notifications about broken links to COE-FacultyAffairs@austin.utexas.edu.