Tentative Agreement Calculator
7:30 PM update: Both the Google Sheets and Excel versions have been updated. Please let us know if you see any issues. If your results from Step and Grade are lower than your current pay then it is definitely an error. No one will make less money under the proposal, per both the language and statements from both teams at the table.
To help our members see what their financial gains will be under the tentative agreement, we have created the calculator you’ll find attached.
This version also contains an estimate for the changes that Step and Grade will bring to your paycheck. The change will be applied before the 2027 across the board increases. There are separate calculators for Hourly and Salary positions.
You’ll also find the current hourly and salary grades as well as the proposed Step and Grade table.
Many of us won’t see a dramatic change when the transition to Step and Grade takes place, but there may be some outliers where pay increases more than expected. This is especially true on the salary side since it was brought into alignment with how the hourly scales work. For more details on how this process will work, you can read this blog post from June that still explains the process even though it has outdated numbers.
Key differences since that post was written:
The TA establishes the new system with 16 steps. The percentages per year have also been adjusted to reflect the change in number of steps.
Salary grades are now tied to hourly grades. Previously, they weren’t always set in direct relation to each other. The salary grades will now be hourly plus 9%. Salary positions that do not currently have an hourly equivalent will be placed in the grade that most closely matches their current range.
This version is a google sheet that doesn’t require any special log in, but you may wish to make a copy since many people will be accessing this at the same time. You can do that by going to File and selecting “Make a copy.”
This version is an Excel document. It may give you an error message about circular references, but you can just ignore that and it should work.
All you need to do is select the appropriate hourly or salary calculator, enter your current hourly pay (there is a calculator to convert biweekly to hourly for salary employees), select the FTE that most closely matches yours, and select your position from the dropdown box. This was created using all active positions in OHSU’s compensation plan, so if you can’t find yours it is likely under an odd abbreviation or naming standard. Please reach out if you can’t find your position.
Some insight into how this spreadsheet calculates those gains:
The Total Contract Fiscal Year 1 Increase assumes the contract ratifies and the changes will take place during the second pay period after ratification. The “Adj Yearly Gross” for that first year reflects being paid your current rate until then, giving as accurate a picture as possible of what your total gains will be between now and July, 2026 when the next across the board increases will go into effect.
If the minimum wage changes don’t impact you, you can scroll past those sections. If they do, the Fiscal Year Increase for years two and three will also reflect six months at the pay as of July 1st and six months under the new minimum wage.
The minimum wage change as of the last pay period before this contract expires in 2028 is not reflected in the final summary of how much will be gained over the course of the contract, but whatever our next bargaining team negotiates for us will be based on that $25 minimum wage and not whatever someone was making before that.
This spreadsheet does not reflect the changes to flex pay, but future edits will attempt to capture that accurately.
Not all gains in any contract are monetary and the additional protections when we’re sick, the additional time off, our retirement benefits now being something OHSU can’t decide to take away from us without negotiating, our expanded steward program, the protections we’ve added for insurance benefits for some of our most vulnerable members and family, and other wins won’t be reflected in a simple wage calculator.
Please check our calendar and your inbox for future town halls where you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss this tentative agreement with your coworkers and bargaining team. The tentative dates for our ratification vote are January 7th through the 16th. More details will be posted after the holidays with voting locations, tabling, and other events.
Comments will be open to ask questions about how the spreadsheet works or identify problems. You can also email us if you’re having issues getting this to work for you. Off-topic comments will not be posted. Please follow the commenting guidelines.