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A number of salary adjustments will go into effect Oct. 1 for faculty and staff at 91¿´Æ¬ Davis. The changes will be seen in paychecks that follow later that month or in November. All faculty members (Academic Federation and Academic Senate members) will receive a 2 percent cost of living adjustment. In addition, those within the Academic Senate will receive an additional 3 percent parity adjustment, according to Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, vice provost for academic programs and personnel. This will bring senate faculty salaries within 5.5 percent of the average of comparison institutions. The parity adjustment is part of a three-year plan to restore faculty salaries that currently lag about 10 percent behind comparison institutions by 1998-99. Faculty members eligible for merits this year received increases July 1. Staff personnel will receive salary increases starting on Oct. 1 from a 4 percent pool made up of 2 percent for range adjustments and 2 percent for merits, according to Dennis Shimek, associate vice chancellor for human resources and risk management. The universitywide salary grade structure will be adjusted by 2 percent, also effective Oct. 1. Funding at the level of a 2 percent general increase (range adjustment) for eligible employees in step-based salary plans will be effective Oct. 1, and merit increases will be funded on the same schedule as 1995-96. As in last academic year, the funding level for six-month and casual increases is based on a six-month delay from the date they would have been awarded.