Staff at the crisis-hit University of East Anglia will not be given a pay rise in line with much of the rest of the sector as the institution attempts to cut its costs.
The Norwich-based university has announced that it is deferring the pay award recently implemented by the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (Ucea).
Staff will have to wait 11 months to receive the extra money that their peers at other universities are being paid. Under Ucea’s instruction, institutions should have upped pay by 2 per cent or £1,000 – whichever is greater – in March pay packets, backdated to February.
The remainder of the pay rise – worth between 5 per cent and 8 per cent, depending on existing salary level – is due to be paid in August. UEA staff, however, will not receive the first share of the money until January 2024, and the rest will follow in July 2024.
