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News about UT and Austin

Use Google to find News
Searches local sources such as UT News releases, Daily Texan, Texas Observer, KUT/NPR, as well as national news.
* Use the Google search tips below.
* I recommend using the main Google search rather than the Google News search for a more comprehensive search.

Tip: UT has a new strategic plan that includes a focus on staff and on affordable housing. Check it out and follow it in the news and on the UT website.

Programs, Services and Statistics

Pay at UT

UT Pay Plan Profiles
All the job titles at UT with their pay ranges.
IPEDS Data
a great place to find institutional data that is nationally reported. Includes UT-Austin stats for FTE (# of staff) in different classifications and salaries going back several years.
Student Employment - Pay Scales
This year's pay ranges for students in academic and non-academic titles. (They don't really change much from year to year in my experience).

This Primer on the UT Budget provides breakdowns of funding and expenditures by broad category (like salaries). The full budget, over, 1,000 pages, is also available but hard to understand.

Benefits at UT

Human Resources Benefits Office
Explains emplooyment beneifts such as insurance, paid leave and retirement.
Services and Perks
Links to the services and perks for UT employees such as the Employee Assistance Program, wellness programs and more.

Advocacy Groups

UT Staff Council
This elected group represents staff interests and addresses a wide range of issues, although salary issues are beyond their purview.
Texas State Employees Union
Includes a University caucus. All UT staff are eligible to join. Because Texas is a "right to work state," Unions are not very powerful.

Living in Austin

City of Austin Income Chart
This chart from Austin City government shows who qualifies for housing assistance. As you can see, many staff positions fall within these ranges from extremely low income to moderately low income.

Google Search Tips

Search for an exact phrase by putting the words in quotes
- ex: "employee benefits"
Add another term to narrow your search if you are getting a lot of irrelevant results
- ex: "university of texas" austin
Create one expanded search for multiple useful terms using OR
- ex: you are searching for info about employee satisfaction
- search is: "employee satisfaction" OR "job satisfaction"
Use the asterisk (*) wildcard for variant spellings or word endings
- ex: affordab* searches for affordable and affordability
Search within a site by using site:
- ex: "cost of living" site:austintexas.gov
Search within a type of site by using site:
- ex: "employee satisfaction" site:.edu
- can also do this for .org, .gov, etc.
Exclude a term or site by using -
- ex: if you are getting results for UT El Paso, you can eliminate that
- ex: -"el paso"