How to Pay Employees' Labor with a Degree Degree.

An employee with an academic degree is a very good indicator for any company. But, not all accountants know how to properly pay extra for the academic degree of their employees. Salaries of employees in budgetary institutions are not too high, Therefore, an additional payment for a degree is an excellent bonus to basic wages.

Academic degrees and degrees are a system of qualifications in science and higher education, ranking teachers at the academic career levels. The senior lecturer is a candidate of sciences, and the professor is a doctor of sciences. Involvement of employees with academic degrees improves the quality of education and expands research work. Legal advice online will help to understand all the subtleties of payment of allowances.

The order of payments is prescribed in two normative legal documents - the Federal Law of Russia "On Higher and Post-Graduate Education" and the Government Decision "On Establishing Interest Additions for Academic Degrees and (or) Academic Rank". The federal law provides for a 40% bonus for the post of associate professor, and for the post of professor - 60%. Degrees of Ph.D. and Doctor of Science provide an allowance of 3000 and 7000 respectively. The government decree provides premiums for academic degrees for employees of internal affairs, criminal correction system, fire fighting service, customs officers, employees of departments for combating illicit drug trafficking, as well as for contract servicemen. The allowance is considered as a percentage of salary for military service and is 10% extra for the degree of Candidate of Sciences and the title of Associate Professor and 25% of the allowance for the degree of Doctor of Science and the title of Professor.

In order to receive an allowance for a degree, it is necessary to comply with certain requirements. First, the employee must be on a regular post, and secondly, the institution, among other things, must unequivocally concern the federal budgetary institutions of science or the federal higher, regardless of departmental affiliation, educational institutions. The third condition is that the degree must be provided for by tariff-qualification requirements.

In 2007, the Ministry of Education and Science specified the procedure for payment of the allowance. The posts of rectors, vice-rectors, heads of educational institutions and post-graduate directors began to be considered administrative and there are no stipends for academic degrees in this case. To receive an allowance for leadership positions, teaching hours should be fixed. Supplement for the degree is provided only in the case of teaching the discipline on the profile of the academic degree.

In order to take into account scientific workers, in addition to the employee's personal card, the "Employee's card of scientific and scientific-pedagogical work" is used, it is filled out by the employee of the personnel service on the basis of supporting documents - diplomas and certificates and other similar documents.