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Peer reviewedWalden, Michael L.; Newmark, Craig M. – Economics of Education Review, 1995
Examines to what degree variation in average teacher salaries is caused by differences across states in cost of living, teachers' personal characteristics, job characteristics, and educational demand. Uses results to adjust the average salaries and computes new, significantly different state rankings based on these adjustments. (19 references)…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Demand, Elementary Secondary Education, Salary Wage Differentials
Download full textNorth Carolina State Dept. of Community Colleges, Raleigh. Div. of Planning and Research Services. – 1992
In spite of recommendations of the Commission on the Future of the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS), faculty salary increases in the NCCCS have not moved the system to the median level of community colleges in the southeast or nationally. To examine this situation, a study was conducted comparing NCCCS faculty salaries with salaries…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Educational Quality
Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior Coll., Perkinston. – 1980
A study was conducted at Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College (MGCJC) to determine the propriety of the salary earned by MGCJC's president. The president's salary and recent salary increases were compared with the salaries and increases earned by: (1) the chief executive officers of the other Mississippi junior colleges; (2) the presidents of…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Comparative Analysis, National Norms, Promotion (Occupational)
Peer reviewedNelson, F. Howard – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1991
A means of generating an interstate cost-of-living (COL) index from market basket data collected at the standard metropolitan statistical area (SMSA) level is described. Models developed for four regions explain differences in the COL among over 180 SMSAs. An adjusted average teacher salary for each state is also generated. (TJH)
Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematical Models
Gaines, Gale F. – 1990
Faculty salaries in the 1980's at comprehensive two-year colleges in the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) states (i.e., Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia) increased significantly but did not keep pace with…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Educational Trends
White, Sammis B.; Rue, Richard C. – 1989
An average of 33.5 percent of school district expenditures is spent on classroom teachers' compensation in Wisconsin elementary schools. The range varies from a low of 21.4 percent to a high of 45.9 percent. Financial data were analyzed from the survey responses of 110 of Wisconsin's 431 districts. The reasons for the average proportion spent on…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Finance, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Evans, John W. – 1989
In 1989, a study was conducted of faculty salaries at California's San Joaquin Delta Community College (SJDCC). Salary results were compared with community college districts in the State of California, with two specially selected subgroups of colleges comparable to SJDCC, and with all of California's major public and private four-year…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Head, Ronald B. – 1992
In 1992, a study was conducted at Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) to provide a comparative analysis of PVCC salaries and an examination of local cost-of-living data. PVCC salary data were compared internally, examining such factors as sex, rank, degree qualification, and seniority; and externally, looking at appropriate state, regional,…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Adjunct Faculty, Administrators, College Faculty
