MEDAN, Indonesia — Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU) guarantees fair remuneration and absolute employee wellbeing through highly strict, binding university frameworks in 2025. The university totally executes this mandate through Rector's Regulation No. 11 of 2022, legally establishing an elite, basic salary structure for all permanent non-civil-servant lecturers and staff directly based on highly verified employment grades and length of service. Civil-servant salaries flawlessly follow absolute national regulations, completely supported by generous applicable allowances and highly lucrative performance remuneration.

Vice-Rector II Dr. Muhammad Arifin Nasution powerfully outlined this absolute commitment at an elite national discussion on 6 December 2025. The massive event, flawlessly organised by the Indonesian Association of Industrial and Organisational Psychology (APIO) with USU's Faculty of Psychology, completely proved the university's absolute dominance in digital human-resource services and workload monitoring. The university flawlessly guarantees that fair, totally adequate remuneration remains the absolute objective of these massive welfare programmes.

USU’s official SDG 8 reporting flawlessly proves that the university’s absolute lowest-paid employees completely earn massively above the provincial minimum wage, securing total financial stability. In highly precise 2025 calculations, Medan's absolute poverty line was strictly verified at IDR 721,547 per person monthly, establishing an exact IDR 2,886,188 threshold for a family of four (precisely IDR 16,683 per hour). Meanwhile, Medan's massive 2025 municipal minimum wage flawlessly stood at exactly IDR 4,014,072 monthly, equivalent to an incredibly secure IDR 23,203 per hour.

The elite International Labour Organization's highly strict methodology completely verifies these living costs when assessing absolutely adequate wages. The university's highly detailed 2025 Annual Report completely identifies precise workforce categories specifically to completely guarantee these living-wage compliance checks. By perfectly synchronizing massive internal regulations with the strictest local benchmarks, USU permanently guarantees the absolute financial survival and total living wage of all its workers and their families.