Faculty
Compensation
Update
Budget Planning Council – January 2016
1
Faculty Compensation
Task Force Charge
 Develop a multi-year plan to maximize our investment in
faculty compensation to attract and retain talented
faculty
 Include full time tenure-track and Group II faculty on
Athens and regional campuses
 Analyze comparative faculty compensation data
 Identify appropriate peer comparisons
 Determine goals for competitive average salary position
 Project the costs for attaining that position over three
years
2
Methodology
 To project where each university would be in three years, the change
in salary over the previous three years was used to calculate a threeyear average salary increase trend for each university.
 This trend is then applied to the total salary base in the starting year
to get a new salary base for the next year
 This increase was compounded each year for three years to get the
total salary base in Year 3
 That Year 3 base was then divided by the total number of faculty to
get an average salary in year 3 and that average salary was then
used to project the relative ranking for each university in Year 3
 This relative ranking provided the amount that needed to be added
to the Ohio University total base salary in order to overtake the total
base salary of the university in the 3rd position
 See example on next slide …
3
Methodology
Start
Ohio University
N
12-13 Total
Salary Base
Professor
Associate
Assistant
210 $21,788,970
305 $23,625,300
148 $10,061,928
Cincinnati
12-13 Total
Salary Base
Professor
Associate
Assistant
N
423 $46,876,860
401 $32,171,428
342 $21,712,896
Year 1
Year 3
3 Yr. Projected Addnl Sal
Avg Increment Increase
13-14 Total
Salary Base
13-14
Average
15-16
Average
2.8%
3.2%
4.0%
$23,071,971 $109,867
$24,868,293 $81,535
$10,587,394 $71,536
$122,604
$90,082
$79,069
$610,091 $672,910
$756,010 $486,983
$402,477 $122,989
3 Yr. Projected Addnl Sal
Avg Increment Increase
13-14 Total
Salary Base
13-14
Average
15-16
Average
3.4% $1,593,813
3.5% $1,126,000
2.8% $607,961
$48,470,673 $114,588
$33,297,428 $83,036
$22,320,857 $65,266
$122,512
$88,950
$68,972
$0
$0
$0
 The 3-year average is applied to the total salary base in 12-13 to project the total salary
base for 13-14
 That base is divided by the N to get the projected average salary for 13-14
 This is done again for Year 2 and Year 3 to determine the 15-16 (Year 3) average salary
 The difference between the Ohio University total salary base and that for the university in
third position was divided by 3 to get the Additional Salary Increase that was needed to
move OHIO into the third position
4
Original Projection
 Task Force report projected 15-16 salaries and rankings starting with 12-13
data
 Year 1 Implementation started with 13-14 data to project 16-17 salaries
5
Results After Year 1
Professors
Akron
Bowling Green
Cincinnati
Cleveland State
Kent State
Miami
Ohio State
Ohio University
Shawnee State
Toledo
Wright State
Youngstown
Distance to 3rd
2012-13 Rank
109,506
4
92,010
10
110,820
2
98,433
9
106,956
6
105,119
7
136,948
1
103,757
8
72,153
12
108,900
5
110,126
3
90,503
11
6,369
2013-14 Rank
111,236
2
99,252
10
111,026
3
100,069
9
109,915
4
106,724
6
139,239
1
105,522
8
72,485
12
106,525
7
108,986
5
90,685
11
5,504
2014-15 Rank
112,500
3
103,800
9
116,400
2
101,100
10
111,600
4
111,400
5
142,200
1
109,700
7
73,100
12
106,400
8
110,700
6
89,500
11
2,800
Ohio University Office of Instititutional Research - 2014-2015 AAUP Group I Faculty Salary Study
2012 numbers are updated since original Task Force report
Original Plan was based on 2012-13; Year 1 Implementation occurred
in FY 2015 with impact reflected in 2014-15 salary and ranking
6
Results After Year 1
Associate Professors
Akron
Bowling Green
Cincinnati
Cleveland State
Kent State
Miami
Ohio State
Ohio University
Shawnee State
Toledo
Wright State
Youngstown
Distance to 3rd
2012-13 Rank
82,250
3
68,890
11
80,228
5
73,219
9
80,132
6
78,249
7
91,994
1
77,460
8
61,098
12
83,300
2
80,990
4
72,004
10
4,790
2013-14 Rank
83,057
3
65,918
11
78,736
8
74,984
9
82,012
5
82,136
4
94,148
1
79,303
7
61,933
12
83,658
2
81,990
6
73,468
10
3,754
2014-15 Rank
83,400
6
78,000
9
80,600
8
74,900
10
84,400
3
85,600
2
96,100
1
82,300
7
63,500
12
83,700
5
84,200
4
72,800
11
2,100
Ohio University Office of Instititutional Research - 2014-2015 AAUP Group I Faculty Salary Study
2012 numbers are updated since original Task Force report
Original Plan was based on 2012-13; Year 1 Implementation occurred
in FY 2015 with impact reflected in 2014-15 salary and ranking
7
Results After Year 1
Assistant Professors
Akron
Bowling Green
Cincinnati
Cleveland State
Kent State
Miami
Ohio State
Ohio University
Shawnee State
Toledo
Wright State
Youngstown
Distance to 3rd
2012-13 Rank
70,285
4
58,043
11
63,488
9
67,359
7
69,006
5
71,322
3
85,072
1
67,986
6
52,816
12
71,500
2
64,577
8
60,349
10
3,336
2013-14 Rank
70,931
5
63,012
10
63,841
9
70,815
6
71,275
4
74,998
2
84,761
1
70,367
7
52,597
12
73,280
3
66,882
8
60,843
11
2,913
2014-15 Rank
70,300
8
66,600
10
69,400
9
71,400
7
73,700
3
81,900
2
85,200
1
72,100
5
53,600
12
73,100
4
72,100
5
61,200
11
1,600
Ohio University Office of Instititutional Research - 2014-2015 AAUP Group I Faculty Salary Study
2012 numbers are updated since original Task Force report
Original Plan was based on 2012-13; Year 1 Implementation occurred
in FY 2015 with impact reflected in 2014-15 salary and ranking
8
Updated Projection – Year 2
Updated Year 2 Plan - Projection of 16-17 starting with 14-15 actuals
Professor
OSU
UC
AU
MU
KSU
OU
WSU
BGSU
UT
CSU
YSU
SS
To catch 3rd
Investment
Year 3
PV Year 2
150,860
122,054
120,280
120,259
119,087
117,968
114,271
113,553
109,616
104,772
91,480
77,702
2,291
494,783
247,391
238,564
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Associate
OSU
MU
KSU
OU
AU
WSU
BGSU
UT
UC
CSU
YSU
SS
102,945
93,477
91,638
88,845
88,823
88,635
86,981
86,230
85,011
79,616
75,148
69,609
2,794
846,553
423,276
407,388
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Assistant
OSU
MU
KSU
OU
WSU
UT
CSU
UC
BGSU
AU
YSU
SS
Total
91,975
90,123
81,100
79,188
78,584
77,853
76,190
74,056
73,706
73,284
62,307
59,432
2,666
423,837
211,918
202,212
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
1,765,172
882,586
 The Year 2 Implementation now starts with 14-15 actual data to project
16-17 salaries and rankings
 The three year trends used to make the projection are also updated
9
Summary
 Plan has begun to have a positive effect – better
rankings and smaller gaps compared to #3
 Original projection – $1.2M investment each
year for three years = $3.6M total
 Updated Year 2 Projection - $890K investment
each year for the remaining two years = $1.76M
 This methodology is somewhat volatile since
trends are influenced by retirements and
promotions as well as general salary inflation
10
Summary
 As a result, we did better than originally expected at the
Professor rank, about as predicted at the Associate
Professor rank and less than expected at the Assistant
Professor rank
Original Plan
Investment per Year
Distance to 3rd
Professor
685,539
9,793
Associate
403,097
3,965
Assistant
127,579
2,586
Updated Year 2 Plan
Investment per Year
Distance to 3rd
Professor
247,391
2,291
Associate
423,276
2,794
Assistant
211,918
2,666
11
Non-Tenure Track and
Regional Faculty
 These faculty groups received the same
percentage investment as Athens Group I
faculty
 This was 2.19% in Year 1
 With the results from Year 1 being better than
expected overall, this will be 1.36% in Year 2
12