The purpose of the salary agreement catalogue is to ensure uniform and transparent pay formation for faculty employees. Approximately every three years, the salary agreement catalogue is revised, and a new version will come into force on 1 April 2023.

Generally speaking, there are no major changes in this revision. Nevertheless, the salary agreement catalogue is a tool that it is useful to familiarise yourself with – especially in advance of the annual pay negotiations, which will take place from now and until the end of June, and in connection with new appointments.

In particular, the new salary agreement catalogue includes the following:

• An adjustment has been made to the supplement sizes in the section on authorisation supplements.
• The section on technical and administrative personnel has undergone a series of changes and adjustments. Among other things due to, that the AC-TAP salary agreement has been deleted from section 5, as it expired on 1 January 2023. Once a new AC-TAP agreement is in place, it will be reincorporated into section 5 of the salary agreement catalogue for technical and administrative personnel.
• A number of additions and clarifications have been made under the five institute-specific sections.

The salary agreement catalogue is valid from 1 April 2023 – 31 March 2026 and covers academic and administrative staff whose salary and terms of employment are regulated by collective agreements between the Ministry of Finance and the multi-union collective agreement for Organisations of Public Employees – Denmark (State) and the AC collective agreement.

About Health’s salary agreement catalogue

Health introduced the first salary agreement catalogue for members of academic staff in 2013. Since then, the catalogue has been expanded to also include technical and administrative personnel, so that today the catalogue applies to the majority of employees at the faculty.

The salary agreement catalogue constitutes the framework for dialogue between the department management team and the unions authorised to negotiate. Previously, pay formation was inconsistent, which led to confusion and ambiguities. The salary agreement catalogue remedies this.

The purpose of the salary agreement catalogue is:

• To seek to ensure that employees’ salaries within the given framework correspond to the work performance of the individual employee
• To create coherence between strategy, personnel policy and salary
• To support openness and visibility in relation to the process, criteria and results in connection with pay formation
• To emphasise equal treatment; i.e. in general, employees with comparable functions and qualifications, etc., should have the same salary level, regardless of their organisational unit or the source of the payroll funds.

You can read more about salaries, rules and the relevant Danish Acts governing employment on Health’s website. Here you can also find the salary agreement catalogue, in both Danish and English.

Contact

Annett Bülow Højgaard, HR partner
Aarhus University, Health HR
Mobile: +45 9350 8306
E-mail: aba@au.dk