Senior Faculty Raises

First Year Results

Context

1986-2006: 7 years in which UW received no legislative appropriations for salary adjustments

1986-2000: 5 years in which UW salary adjustment were 3% or less

2001-2006: Larger adjustments occurred in 2001 (8.1%), 2003 (12.4%), and 2005 (6.2%)

2006: Governor requested raises for all state employees in FY 2007 and FY 2008, averaging 3.5%/year.

Consequences Salaries of employees hired in the 80’s and into

the 90’s have not kept pace with the market

Until recently, salaries of retiring faculty had grown too slowly to fully fund the salaries of their replacements, even at the entry level

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: The Governor requested raises averaging 3.5%/year for all

state employees. To “retain top performing senior faculty” UW asked for

$3.9M “on top of proposed funding for salary increases for the upcoming biennium.”

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.”

The amount requested included estimates for associated benefits.

2007-2008 Authorizations $26.4 Million = Enough to fund raises for all

UW employees, averaging 3.5% for each year of the biennium

$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 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: Seniority Merit Market Equity

Defining “Seniority”: Average Market Difference, Associate + Full

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Eligibility and Criteria

Seniority: UW start date of 1996 and earlier Administrators (= deans & higher) not eligible

Merit: General raise of at least 2.5% from college

Promote and preserve equity, especially for women and people of color

Salary significantly different from relevant market comparator (deans didn’t have to use OSU averages)

Other compelling justification

Process Begin after completing general raise process, to ensure

special raise targets senior faculty Early July: circulate data set containing

• salaries (before and after general raise), • OSU comparator salaries, if we knew them • service dates, ranks, gender and ethnicity

Provide dollar “targets” for college raise requests July-August:

• initial college nominations, • AA feedback, • final college nominations

September: raises appear in paychecks

Outcomes

322 senior raises distributed 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

Before and After: UW Faculty Salaries Compared to the LGU Average (AY 2005)

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Before and After: UW Professor Salaries Compared to the LGU Average (AY 2005)

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OSU Land-Grant 2004-2005 $95,427 OSU Land-Grant 2005-2006 $99,436 (4%)

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Did we achieve our goal? 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 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?

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:• 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

FCS video/classroom access for earlycare center $50K

AHC digitization equipment $20K

University-School partnership

articulation meetings (one-time support) $15K

WyGISC upgrades/data $10K

$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: $114,480Number of faculty members who received senior raises: 260

$114,480 / 260 = $440.30 per year

Land-Grant UW

Rank Actual Actual Projected *

Rank LG 2004-2005 LG 2005-2006 LG 2006-2007 2005-2006 N July-06 N September-06 N

Assistant Professor $ 59,653 $ 59,533 $ 61,438 $ 57,250 146 $ 59,745 130 $ 60,492 153

% Difference from 2004-2005 Market -0.2% 3.2% -4.0% 0.2% 1.4%

% Difference from 2005-2006 Market -3.8% 0.4% 1.6%

% Difference from 2006-2007 Market -1.5%

Associate Professor $ 66,755 $ 71,808 $ 74,824 $ 64,341 174 $ 66,275 181 $ 66,819 175

% Difference from 2004-2005Market 7.0% 4.2% -3.6% -0.7% 0.1%

% Difference from 2005-2006 Market -10.4% -7.7% -6.9%

% Difference from 2006-2007 Market -10.7%

Professor $ 95,427 $ 99,436 $ 102,916 $ 82,339 209 $ 85,536 212 $ 88,301 208

% Difference from 2004-2005 Market 4.0% 3.5% -13.7% -10.4% -7.5%

% Difference from 2005-2006 Market -17.2% -14.0% -11.2%

% Difference from 2006-2007 Market         -14.2%