After Sacramento State President Robert Nelsen offered staff a pay raise from receiving salary inversion during the recession, he announced the budget would not allow for them to get the full amount as quickly as he wanted.

“Under the constraints of this year’s budget, we cannot possibly afford that amount. We would have to cut services drastically,” Nelsen said in a newsletter.

Nelsen also said over the next few academic years he wishes to reach the initial funds, but will only be able to give a consistent raise average of $1,800 for this year.

Interim Director of News and Communication Elisa Smith said those who were promised the raise will still be getting the full amount, it will just take a little longer than expected.

Smith said inversion salary is for those who were hired on during the recession and are making less than those hired on now and what the campus is trying to do is make the pay equal because those who are affected have been working on campus longer.

“Overall, we need to examine all potential compensation disparities across our campus,” Nelsen said. “With these three years of staff equity raises, we will have solved many salary inversion issues. But there are other deserving staff members whose compensation will not be addressed through this initial program.”

Nelsen said the staff members who were not addressed by the initial program may also be experiencing salary compression and inversion over the next few years.

This article has been corrected as of August 10, 2015 at 6:45 p.m. The previous had stated the pay decrease was for the executive positions on campus, not the staff members working at Sacramento State.