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Attachment A

BONUS TYPES AND CRITERIA

Recruitment Bonus

Offered to external candidates for employment as an inducement to accept employment in a permanent/probationary position and to commit to remain in Sacramento State employment.  Bonus must be returned to Sacramento State if employee does not complete probationary period.

Criteria:

  • Labor market conditions must be tight and candidates for position in short supply causing recruitment difficulties.
  • Proof should be offered such as:
    • The duration of recruitment efforts.
    • The number of qualified applicants.

Retention Bonus

Awarded to employees as incentive to remain in the employment of Sacramento State.

Criteria:
  1. The position must be critical to the ongoing operations of the unit.
  2. Applicants for the position must be in short supply in the labor market.
  3. The unit has had difficulty retaining employees in pertinent classification.
  4. The requirements for the retention bonus must be in writing to the employee.
  5. The employee must commit to stay at Sacramento State for at least 12 months.

Critical Skills Bonus

Awarded to an employee, usually, but not exclusively, in an Informational Technology position, possessing and regularly utilizing specialized and/or advanced skills necessary and critical to the ongoing operations of the unit.

Criteria:

  1. Employee must possess specialized and/or advanced skill(s) not possessed by others in their classification, but not outside the realm of the classification or skill level.  (Specialized and/or advanced skills are generally transitory in nature and may become outdated over time as they are replaced by new innovations.)
  2. Employee must be actively using the specialized or advanced skills.

Individual or Group Performance Bonus

Available to Units 2, 5, 7 and 9 (CSUEU) only
Awarded for exceptional performance of special projects or duties during a designated time period.

Criteria:

  1. Normally, expectations for performance of a special project (or duties) made known to employee in writing prior to performance period.
  2. Performance level for the special project or duties driving the request for individual performance bonus should be at the excellent level.
  3. Performance level for the special project or duties driving the request for a group performance bonus should be documented as excellent overall for the group.

For non-exempt employees, all bonus awards will be based on a percentage of the annual gross salary as stipulated in article 20.35 of the CSUEU MOU.

Rev. 08/2006