Pay, reward and progression

Most staff are on the University of Leeds pay and grading structure.

Associate Professor title

University Senate recently agreed the proposal of a new title of Associate Professor for academic roles at grade 9. The University is currently working to agree a timescale and process for moving existing grade 9 academic staff, and for making new academic grade 9 appointments and promotions, to the new title.

As part of this process existing Senior Lecturers or Readers will be allowed to retain their existing title or can choose to switch to the new title. Grade 9 staff in research focused roles may be able to transfer to the Associate Professor title where they can demonstrate that they have made a sufficient contribution to learning and teaching and teaching focused staff may be able to transfer to the new title where they can demonstrate a sufficient contribution to research or scholarship.

The Associate Professor title is linked to the role and not an individual title. Individuals will continue to be addressed as ‘Dr X’ or other appropriate title and would not be expected to present themselves as ‘Associate Professor X’ (or ‘Professor X’) internally or externally.

Policies and procedures will be updated to reflect this change.

Full details of the process will be communicated to affected grade 9 staff in due course.

New Grade 10 Promotions Procedure
The new procedure for promotion to Grade 10 has been agreed and is now open for applications.

This new approach has been the result of a significant amount of work in partnership with all three campus trade unions and consultation with other key groups across the University.

Information on the new procedures, including details of how to apply, the 5 stages of the promotions process, the promotions criteria and interpretation guidance, and information about key roles within the process can be accessed via the link to the promotions website to the right of this page.

If you have any comments or queries please contact your Faculty/Service HR Manager or e-mail David Brett, Senior Staff Recruitment and Administration Officer at d.j.brett@adm.leeds.ac.uk

Promotions Grades 3 to 9
Information on the procedures for promotion to Grades 3 to 9, including details of how to apply, the 5 stages of the promotions process, the promotions criteria and interpretation guidance, and information about key roles within the process can be accessed via the link to the promotions website to the right of this page.

If you have any comments or queries please contact your Faculty/Service HR Manager or e-mail the promotions team at promotions@leeds.ac.uk

University of Leeds pay and grading structure
If you work for the University, you are on the University of Leeds pay and grading structure. The latest salary scales are available here.

Staff on this structure can expect to progress regularly within their salary band, and this may be accelerated to reward special effort, skill or experience. The salary increment page contains more information on how this works.

Medical Clinical Staff
Medical Clinical staff have their own salary scales in line with the NHS pay and grading structures. Take a look at the latest Medical Clinical salary scales to see where you fit in on the scales.

Teaching assistance, demonstrating and tutorial assistance
See the current teaching assistance, demonstrating and tutorial assistance rates of pay and grading criteria for more information.

Please also find available generic job descriptions for Demonstrators, Tutorial Assistant, Seminar Tutors, Teaching Assistants and Tutors.

Trainee Technicians
This section contains useful information regarding the special pay and progression arrangements in place for Trainee Technicians.

Staff costs calculator
SiriusWeb is an online staff costs calculator, which will help you cost a new appointment. You can use it to calculate the full employment costs for a chosen grade, including employer's pension and national insurance contributions, increment and pay awards for a specific contract duration.

Equal Pay Review
The Equality Act 2010 emphasises the need for organisations to ensure pay equality amongst its workforce.

An equal pay review is the most effective way of establishing precisely what measures organisations need to take and of assessing whether they are rewarding employees equitably. It also provides an effective demonstration of action to promote equal pay under the terms of the gender equality duty.

This report presents the results of the equal pay review carried out by Capita for the University of Leeds using data correct at July 2009.