Goals The University of California's staff workforce enables it to achieve its mission of education, research and public service. With over 85,700 career staff, UC is one of the largest public employers in California. As one of the largest employers in the state, UC aims to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the people of California. The University also aims to attract and retain the highest quality workforce by offering competitive total remuneration, which includes salary and benefits.
In 2005, the Regents set a goal to achieve market comparability for salaries and benefits for all employees over a 10-year period. This goal recognizes the underlying objective that the quality of academic, management and staff personnel is essential for maintaining the excellence of the University and enabling it to achieve its mission.
Additionally and as a matter of Regental policy the University is committed to supporting diversity and equal opportunity, and it acknowledges "the acute need to remove barriers to the recruitment, retention, and advancement of talented students, faculty, and staff from historically excluded populations who are currently underrepresented." This commitment is consistent with the University's long history of promoting the diversity of opinions, ideas and backgrounds of its students, faculty and staff, and with its obligations as a federal contractor. To achieve its diversity goals UC will need to develop new strategies for staff recruitment, retention and promotion, and for talent management and leadership development.
Measures The data presented in this section provide an introduction to the composition of the University's staff workforce, including the personnel program, the type of appointment status and gender and ethnicity demographics. The University has three staff personnel programs: Professional and Support Staff (PSS), Managers and Senior Professionals (MSP) and Senior Management Group (SMG). Appointment status refers to whether a staff employee is career, non-career or employed as a student.
More detailed views of the Universitywide workforce are found at: Statistical Summary and Data on Students, Faculty, and Staff; Diversity Facts and Figures; and Workforce Profile.
Future accountability reports will include data on staff market competitiveness for salaries and benefits. They will also address issues of concern facing the future of the staff workforce, such as the large number of retirement eligible staff, benefit cost liabilities, market salary lags, adequate succession planning for critical positions, shrinking resources, career development opportunities that keep pace with technology and the ever evolving educational environment.