Staff Pay

Dear Mr Mann,

Thank you for your enquiry, which has been received and logged as a request for information under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.  

Please quote reference number FOI 037 should you need to contact the University regarding this request. 

A response will be sent to you promptly and in any case not later than 20 working days after the date we received your enquiry. The University will make every effort to provide you with the information requested; if any clarification is required, the University will contact you as soon as possible. 

In some circumstances, it may not be possible to provide you with an answer to your enquiry. Where the University believes this is the case, you will be informed in writing, stating the reason(s). 

If the information you are seeking is already published by the University, or is otherwise available to members of the public, you will be sent details outlining how to access the information. 

If you have any questions regarding your request for information, then please do not hesitate to contact me. 

Yours sincerely,

James Nock
UHI FOI Officer

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Dear Jamie

I refer to your request for information received on 29 March, request
number 037.   

Please find our response as follows:

Please note that the University of the Highlands and Islands operates as a
collegiate federal partnership comprising eleven independent further and
higher education colleges, specialist colleges and research
institutions.    A list of contact details for our partner organisations
is available at [1]http://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/campuses and further
information about the University is available online at
[2]http://www.uhi.ac.uk/en

The response provided is in relation to staff employed by the University
and not any of its Academic Partners.  

┌───┬──────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────┐
│  │Request │Response │
├───┼──────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│1 │Please list all the pay bands │Please see the appendix attached. │
│ │which apply to university │ │
│ │staff. │ │
│ │ │ │
│ │  │ │
│ │ │ │
│ │If pay bands do not exist in │ │
│ │your university, please tell │ │
│ │me the lowest annual │ │
│ │salary/hourly rate paid to │ │
│ │workers, and please specify │ │
│ │their role. │ │
├───┼──────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│2 a│Please also provide a list, or│Median pay: £38,682 FTE │
│ │a link to documents listing │ │
│ │the current median pay, of │ │
│ │staff, │ │
├───┼──────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│2b │as well as the remuneration of│There are four members of staff in │
│ │the senior leadership │UHI’s Senior Executive Team:  │
│ │team/highest paid staff. │ │
│ │ │ • Principal and Vice-Chancellor   │
│ │  │ • Deputy Principal – Academic and │
│ │ │ Research   │
│ │ │ • Vice Principal – Strategy, │
│ │ │ Performance and Culture   │
│ │ │ • University Secretary     │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │   │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │The salaries for these job roles are │
│ │ │as follows:   │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │   │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │Principal and Vice-Chancellor: │
│ │ │£210,000   │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │    │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │Other members of Senior Executive │
│ │ │Team*:   │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │┌──────────────────────────────┬────┐│
│ │ ││£100,000 - £109,999        │1 ││
│ │ │├──────────────────────────────┼────┤│
│ │ ││£110,000 - £119,999         │1 ││
│ │ │├──────────────────────────────┼────┤│
│ │ ││£120,000 - £129,999 │0 ││
│ │ │├──────────────────────────────┼────┤│
│ │ ││£130,000 - £139,999 │1 ││
│ │ │└──────────────────────────────┴────┘│
└───┴──────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────┘

* The requested information, in the level of detail requested, is exempt
from disclosure under section 38(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002 as its disclosure would contravene the Data Protection
Act 2018. In place of the specific information requested, the university
provides less detailed information in response to your request.  

Your right to seek a review of our decision

If you are not satisfied with our response or our reasoning set out above,
you have forty working days in which to request a review of our decision.
Any request should be put in writing and should be sent to me at the
address detailed at the bottom of this email. Your request should: 

(a)        describe the nature of your original request; and 

(b)        explain the reasons why you are not satisfied with our
response.  

You can read more about your rights in relation to the review process at
the Scottish Information Commissioner’s website here: [3]Asking the
authority for a review | Scottish Information Commissioner
(itspublicknowledge.info)

Finally, should you wish to discuss the contents of this response then
please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely

Joanna Paterson

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