AFT’s Salary Proposal is What CCSF Needs to Attract and Retain Full-Time Faculty

Full-time faculty salaries at CCSF were already substantially below most of our peer schools last year, and the situation has only gotten worse this year. This disparity impacts full and part-time faculty, students, and our entire college community.

If CCSF wants to retain its reputation for academic excellence, if it wants to be able to staff departments like Chemistry, Nursing, and Construction Management, then it is going to have to pay faculty competitively. This is an investment in our students and our mission, and it is high time the Board of Trustees take responsibility for addressing this problem.

To take one fairly typical example, the median full-time faculty member was in step 17 and column F+30 last year. If you were in this step and column, your salary last year would have been 7th in the Bay 10. This year, your counterparts at Contra Costa and Foothill-de Anza (along with five other Bay 10 districts) have received raises. Now, you’re at step 18 but still making ninth in the Bay 10, ahead of only Peralta (and Peralta may yet receive a raise this year). Your highest-paid counterparts are now at West Valley-Mission, where you’d be making 32% more. Most full-time faculty at City College are in this situation—salaries about 20% lower than our counterparts at peer colleges.

The core reason for these discrepancies is that CCSF’s full-time faculty salaries were competitive in the last year of our last contract—2020-2021. But we haven’t seen raises since then, while our counterparts at other colleges have. AFT’s salary proposal would rectify this, by giving a 5.07% raise (and full back pay to restore concessions) retroactive to 21-22, a 6.56% raise retroactive to 22-23, and a 5.74% raise this year—for a total of an 18.4% raise (with another 4% next year). This would mean under AFT’s proposal, your salary last year would actually be retroactively set very slightly above the Bay 10 median. And your salary this year would be 99% of the Bay 10 median.

Making full-time faculty salaries competitive would be good for our whole college: part-time faculty, students, and programs all would benefit. However, the administration has proposed no change at all to your 22-23 salary, and only a 5% increase in your 23-24 salary—leaving you far below the median of other nine Bay 10 schools, and with your salary still ranked 7th in the Bay 10.

The Board of Trustees have a special meeting tonight at 6pm. SF Voters demanded change, and that means the Board needs to step up to ensure CCSF’s administration invests in the core of our mission and settles a fair contract with faculty.

Faculty, stay tuned for the results of this meeting, and sign your strike card today to support the fight for a competitive salary and fair contract. All faculty can sign (members, non-members, Department Chairs, etc.): https://bit.ly/WillingToStrike4CCSF