• Instructional faculty: Persons teaching, tutoring, instructing, and lecturing in the activity of imparting knowledge.
• Research faculty: Persons with advanced scientific or academic training who are actively engaged in the research field, responsible for identifying research problems, developing designs or hypotheses, analyzing results of research investigations, reaching conclusions, publishing the results of research and investigations, and obtaining research grants or funding.
• Library faculty: Persons with a degree of at least Master of Library Science from an accredited institution, employed in NSHE libraries, and provide professional library services and directly support teaching and research.

The below discipline-specific salary ranges apply to academic faculty in business, dental medicine, engineering, and law.

Academic faculty must be evaluated once per year. The Office of Faculty Affairs and the Provost handle this process. Evaluations are usually conducted in January and February. Employees are evaluated by the calendar year starting in January and ending in December.

Longevity Pay

The passage of Assembly Bill 522 included a program to encourage employee continuity of service, also known as longevity. Under this program, eligible employees will receive semi-annual payments based on their years of service beginning in December 2023. 

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible for semi-annual longevity payments, individuals must: 

• Be a regular appointed part-time or full-time academic faculty, administrative faculty, or non-CBA covered classified employee 
• Have eight (8) or more years of continuous state service. 
  • “Continuous state service” for longevity purposes includes uninterrupted service within the branches of state government, and uninterrupted service with NSHE as classified employees or academic and administrative faculty in regular non-temporary positions. 
• Be employed within NSHE on the first of the month prior to the longevity payment. 
• Have received a rating of satisfactory or higher on their most recent performance evaluation.

Ineligible Employees

Employees under the following classifications are ineligible for longevity payments:

• Letter of Appointment (salaried and hourly)
• Part-time Instructors
• Temporary Hourly
• Student Employees
• Graduate Assistants
• Postdoctoral Scholars
• Classified employees under a collective bargaining unit (A,E,F,G) 

Additional Information

• Longevity payments are retirement-eligible payments. 
• Individuals employed for at least .50 FTE but less than 1.0 FTE during the six-month period prior to the longevity payment, will receive a prorated payment based on their average percentage of FTE for the six-month period prior to the corresponding longevity payment.

Longevity Payment Schedule for Eligible Academic and Administrative Faculty

Employee's years of service will be determined by rounding down to the nearest whole number. For example, an individual with 13.6 years would receive the payment of $225 for 13 years.

Quick Link: Nevada Board of Regents Policy on Longevity Pay, Chapter 3, Section 9

Employees may request a permanent change to base salary. Final action for each request is made by the appropriate Vice President, the Executive Vice President and Provost, or the President and communicated to the employee.

Adjustments to salary are contingent on funding. Approved salary adjustments are reported yearly to the Faculty Senate. Adjustments that exceed 10% of base salary are reported to NSHE.

Tenure is awarded after a lengthy review and evaluation process handled by the Office of Faculty Affairs.

UNLV does not discriminate in its employment practices or in its educational programs or activities, including admissions, on the basis of sex/gender pursuant to Title IX, or on the basis of age (40 or older), disability, whether actual or perceived by others (including service-connected disabilities), gender (including pregnancy related conditions), military status or military obligations, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, race, color or religion pursuant to Title 4, Chapter 8, Section 13 of the NSHE Handbook.

Reports of discriminatory misconduct, questions regarding Title IX, and/or concerns about noncompliance with Title IX or any other anti-discrimination laws or policies should be directed to UNLV’s Title IX Coordinator Michelle Sposito. The Title IX Coordinator can be reached through the online reporting form, by email at titleixcoordinator@unlv.edu, by phone at 702-895-4055, by mail at 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Box 451062, Las Vegas, NV, 89154-1062, or in person at Frank and Estella Beam Hall (BEH), Room 555.