Currently in a bargaining cycle, the California Faculty Association is requesting a cost of living adjustment to recognize inflation, alongside a 2% increase each year from the CSU Chancellor’s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This request echoes that which the CFA has been voicing since the 2024-25 school year \u2014 the demand to meet the rising cost of living in California for CSU faculty. The Chancellor’s Office took a $144 million zero-interest, one-time state loan in October 2025 to mitigate state budget cuts, offering faculty a one-time 3% bonus.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTo put that in perspective, if you make $100,000 \u2014 which most faculty members do not make $100,000 \u2014 you get a one-time check of $3,000 before taxes, \u201d said Treasurer and Bargaining Representative for Cal State Fullerton\u2019s CFA chapter Christina Barbieri. \u201cSo what we\u2019ve asked for is a cost of living adjustment that recognizes inflation plus 2% each year.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The CFA\u2019s request comes on the heels of the CSU Board of Trustees voting on Nov. 19 to approve a substantial pay raise for system administrators. Chancellors, vice chancellors and presidents will be receiving anywhere from a 5% to 20% increase in pay, based on performance, starting July 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Going into effect immediately after its approval, this policy eliminated salary caps for chancellors, vice chancellors and presidents. Presidents currently make anywhere from $370,000 to over $530,000 in base salary, with the compensation increase slating for this range to encompass proposed a salary north of $600,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the CSU, the executive salary increases will be supported by a mix of general and non-general funding.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSpecifically, deferred compensation (DC) and incentives will be funded through non-state, non-tuition and non-student funds,\u201d wrote the CSU in a Q&A regarding the executives’ pay increase.<\/p>\n
Chancellor Mildred Garcia came into her position in Oct. 2023 with a $795,000 base salary, a 27% increase from her predecessor’s.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This is roughly 112% percent more than Governor Gavin Newsom, who has a base salary of $224,020.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Along with base pay, CSU presidents either received provided housing or an allowance of $60,000 to $80,000 to be allotted towards housing. CSU executives also receive a monthly $1,000 auto allowance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to CFA, the lowest-paid full-time lecturer makes \u201cjust over $66,000 a year, but most lecturers are not full-time and make less than half that amount.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The annual cost of living in California was $64,835 as of 2024, according to data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The cost of living in Orange County specifically is 60% higher than the national average.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are not offering faculty any increases in salary or base pay, which means we have not received a raise in years,\u201d said President of CSUF\u2019s CFA chapter Christina Ceisel. \u201cWe do not get regular cost of living adjustments.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The CFA\u2019s request and CSU executive\u2019s pay increase are both concurrent with CSU substantially increasing class sizes, a struggle professors have voiced on the floor of the Academic Senate last semester.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFaculty working conditions are student learning conditions,\u201d said Ava Estrada, an intern for Students for Quality Education. \u201cOur faculty being overworked and underpaid impacts us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The next bargaining meeting is set for Jan. 29th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Currently in a bargaining cycle, the California Faculty Association is requesting a cost of living adjustment to recognize…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,74729,12983,22092,3005,5575],"class_list":["post-151173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-bargaining-cycle","tag-cfa","tag-chancellor","tag-csuf","tag-wage-increase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}