The Title and Total Compensation Project was launched in 2017 to simplify the UW-Madison and UW System jobs into coherent title and compensation structures consistent across the system. Basically, the current job titling structure is being updated and modernized with the goal of having job titles that are market informed and represent the kind of work done across the UW System. The project is primarily concerned with Academic and University Staff (non-Faculty) job titles and compensation. This is a big multi-year UW System project that affects every university (see our UWO project team page). This title structure does not affect faculty. 

Faculty will be affected by any changes to benefits that may result from project. In 2018, UW System collected data from the Employee Benefits Preferences Survey. This information is being used to explore the value of UW benefits offerings. The results of the survey are discussed in this video update between minute 13.57 and minute 18:09. Recommendations about benefits are expected in the spring of 2020. 

Overall, the TTC project is intended to help UW System leadership identify compensation issues, recommend, plan, and fund salary and benefits adjustments in the future. All of these things are subject to Board of Regents and legislature review and approval. We’ll see what the recommendations on benefits look like in the spring.