Overview
The budget includes a pay raise for employees, maintains the college’s minimum wage, keeps tuition and fees unchanged, and factors in an increase to employee benefit rates, according to a news release.
The $10 million compensation package includes a 3% raise for all current ACC employees. ACC is also undergoing a market study for staff positions, and preliminary results show a small percentage of staff will need salary adjustments. Consequently, $1 million was allocated for possible adjustments and reclassifications of staff salaries.
Tuition and fees will also stay the same for the 12th year at ACC. Tuition for in-district students is $67 per credit hour, or $85 per credit hour factoring in fees, while the out-of-district rate remains at $201 per credit hour. The approval of tuition and fees comes as ACC’s fall enrollment is trending up 15% for 2025, compared to fall 2024.
What else?
Included in the FY 2025-26 operating budget is over $3 million for a construction contract to expand the Round Rock campus’s central utility plant. The plant expansion is meant to support new buildings being constructed for ACC’s applied technology programs, which is a 2022 bond project, and for Round Rock ISD’s Early College High School programs, according to ACC documents.
