Senior Faculty Raises
First Year Results
Context
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1986-2006: 7 years in which UW received no
legislative appropriations for salary adjustments
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1986-2000: 5 years in which UW salary
adjustment were 3% or less
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2001-2006: Larger adjustments occurred in
2001 (8.1%), 2003 (12.4%), and 2005 (6.2%)
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2006: Governor requested raises for all state
employees in FY 2007 and FY 2008, averaging
3.5%/year.
Consequences
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Salaries of employees hired in the 80’s and
into the 90’s have not kept pace with the
market
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Until recently, salaries of retiring faculty had
grown too slowly to fully fund the salaries of
their replacements, even at the entry level
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UW lost faculty positions, and the structure of
the academic workforce changed to include a
somewhat higher proportion of academic
professionals.
Request to 2006 Legislature:
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The Governor requested raises averaging 3.5%/year for all
state employees.
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To “retain top performing senior faculty” UW asked for
$3.9M “on top of proposed funding for salary increases for
the upcoming biennium.”
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Justification: “Despite substantial funding for salary
increases in recent years, senior faculty salaries still lag
significantly behind national market levels for land grant
universities like UW. Even including the proposed funding
for salary increases for the upcoming biennium, some 213
UW senior faculty members will have salaries that remain
an average of 7% below the national average for land-grant
universities.”
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The amount requested included estimates for associated
benefits.
2007-2008 Authorizations
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$26.4 Million = Enough to fund raises for all
UW employees, averaging 3.5% for each year
of the biennium
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$2.96 Million = Enough “[f]or additional salary
increases over the biennium, thus phasing in
the request over the two year period.”
Didn’t get enough to fund all of the senior
faculty raises in 1 year; got enough to
distribute the raises in 2 installments (FY 2007,
FY 2008).
Amounts available for distribution in
senior raises
$987K for raises and associated benefits in FY07
$987K to sustain first-year raises and benefits in FY08
$987K for raises and associated benefits in FY08
$2.96M total for 2007-8 biennium
Breakdown of annual amount:
$830K for salary increases
$157K (19%) for benefits (e.g. retirement)
$987K total
Distribution Principles
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Premise: the raise should be targeted toward
top-performing senior faculty
To avoid smearing out the effect of the raise,
we administered it after the general raise and
established an eligibility floor.
Criteria:
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Seniority
Merit
Market
Equity
Difference, OSU 2005
Defining “Seniority”: Average Market Difference,
Associate + Full Professors
10%
5%
0%
<1996
1996
1997
1998
-5%
-10%
-15%
Year Hired
1999
>2000
Eligibility and Criteria
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Seniority: UW start date of 1996 and earlier
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Administrators (= deans & higher) not eligible
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Merit: General raise of at least 2.5% from college
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Promote and preserve equity, especially for women
and people of color
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Salary significantly different from relevant market
comparator (deans didn’t have to use OSU averages)
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Other compelling justification
Process
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Begin after completing general raise process, to
ensure special raise targets senior faculty
Early July: circulate data set containing
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Provide dollar “targets” for college raise requests
July-August:
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salaries (before and after general raise),
OSU comparator salaries, if we knew them
service dates, ranks, gender and ethnicity
initial college nominations,
AA feedback,
final college nominations
September: raises appear in paychecks
Outcomes
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322 senior raises distributed
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260 senior faculty members (professor series,
plus a few library faculty, and archivists) received
$715,512
62 senior extended-term academic professionals
(lecturers, extension educators, research
scientists) received $114,480
Average senior raise was $2,578
Range was broad: $492 - $7,200
Different deans approached the raise differently
% Difference from the 2004-2005 Land-Grant Average
Before and After: UW Faculty Salaries
Compared to the LGU Average (AY 2005)
5.0%
0.0%
n=130 n=153
-5.0%
n=175
n=181
n=174
n=146
n=20
8
-10.0%
n=212
-15.0%
n=209
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Professor
2005 - 2006
-4.0%
-3.6%
-13.7%
July 2006
0.2%
-0.7%
-10.4%
Sept 2006
1.4%
0.1%
-7.5%
Before and After: UW Professor Salaries
Compared to the LGU Average (AY 2005)
% Difference from the 2004-2005 Land-Grant
10.0%
OSU Land-Grant 2005-2006 $99,436 (4%)
OSU Land-Grant 2004-2005 $95,427
5.0%
0.0%
n=208
-5.0%
n=212
n=209
-10.0%
-15.0%
-20.0%
2005-2006
-13.7%
July 2006
-10.4%
Sept 2006
-7.5%
Did we achieve our goal?
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Compared to the 2004-2005 baseline, the
salary gap for full professors narrowed from
14% to 7%
Salaries of faculty included in special raise
pool rose more than the market
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Average increase for senior raise pool was 6.8%
Full professor salaries at LGU’s rose 4% from
AY2005 to AY2006
But gap persists for professors
We suspect it’s still a problem for APs, but the
OSU data don’t include this category
What’s ahead?
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There is another 3.5% (average) general
raise to administer for 2008
There is another $830K to distribute in
special senior raises in 2008
Options include:
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Distributing according to the same rules
Including only senior-ranked faculty
Including only full professors
Others?
Questions?
Extra slides
ONE-TIME PLUS BUDGET ALLOCATIONS (FY2007)
Art
arc welders and other
instructional equipment
$25K
Theater and
Dance
stage upgrades (sound and
light systems, etc.)
$50K
Music
Grand piano
$90K
English
instructional equipment for
Hoyt
$40K
video/classroom access for
earlycare center
$50K
AHC
digitization equipment
$20K
University-School
partnership
articulation meetings (onetime support)
$15K
WyGISC
upgrades/data
$10K
FCS
$300K
First 2 months of the $987K in FY 2007: $165K in one-time monies
Faculty rank and gender equity:
20 of the 56 associate/assistant profs who received raises are
women (36%)
30 of the 188 full profs are women (16%)
How much difference did the inclusion of APs make to faculty?
Amount distributed to APs:
Number of faculty members who received senior raises:
$114,480 / 260 = $440.30 per year
$114,480
260
Land-Grant
Rank
Actual
Rank
LG 2004-2005
Assistant Professor
$
59,653
UW
Actual
Projected *
LG 2005-2006
LG 2006-2007
$
% Difference from 2004-2005 Market
59,533
$
-0.2%
61,438
2005-2006
$
3.2%
% Difference from 2005-2006 Market
57,250
N
146
July-06
$
59,745
N
130
September-06
$
-4.0%
0.2%
1.4%
-3.8%
0.4%
1.6%
% Difference from 2006-2007 Market
Associate Professor
$
66,755
$
71,808
7.0%
$
74,824
$
4.2%
% Difference from 2005-2006 Market
64,341
174
$
66,275
181
$
95,427
% Difference from 2004-2005 Market
% Difference from 2005-2006 Market
% Difference from 2006-2007 Market
66,819
-3.6%
-0.7%
0.1%
-10.4%
-7.7%
-6.9%
% Difference from 2006-2007 Market
$
153
-1.5%
% Difference from 2004-2005Market
Professor
60,492
N
175
-10.7%
$
99,436
4.0%
$ 102,916
3.5%
$
82,339
209
$
85,536
212
$
88,301
-13.7%
-10.4%
-7.5%
-17.2%
-14.0%
-11.2%
-14.2%
208