The experience - Library Circulation Assistant Oklahoma State University Employee Review

Attention given to Work life balance

Don’t have complaints to give

Good benefits. Good leave accrual rates, especially after you've been there 5 years.

The longer you stay the less you earn relative to cost of living. We're required to do detailed annual evaluations but they can only hurt, not help. We aren't given merit raises even if we score very high on evals. Got a great score on your eval? Shrug. But if you get a low score then you're ineligible for the random cost-of-living adjustment we get every 2 - 5 yrs. The last COL adjustment we got was more than two years ago and was only 2.5%. And we've been told no COL adjustments anytime soon (they call them "raises" as if they're based on merit or seniority but they're not--they're adjustments given to everyone the same). The cost of housing, groceries, services, home & car insurance has skyrocketed in past two years but we're stuck at same pay we had on Dec 1, 2023. AND our health insurance costs are going up a lot on Jan 1, 2026. So really, we're losing money by staying at OSU. Supposedly the school can't afford make any adjustment in our pay. But somehow it can afford to create a new executive position with *very* high salary. Morale is very low and the people at the bottom of the pyramid are broke.