The primary purpose of this report is to assist State and local education associations in their efforts to improve the compensation of teachers at all levels -- elementary, secondary, and higher education. This compendium of currently available data provides a single source of technical information for assessing and comparing the economic position…

Addenda to the annual report on the economic status of college faculty included earnings data from the Census Bureau that compare 1978-79 academic salaries with 1978 salaries and earnings of similar groups of workers. (MLW)

A continuing need for comprehensive and timely information about the public school teachers of the United States led the National Education Association (NEA) Research Division in 1956 to develop the first of a series of surveys and subsequent reports covering various aspects of teachers' professional, family, and civic lives. The NEA has conducted…

Tables and narrative analysis are presented for salary trends for all ranks of college faculty in 2,532 public and private institutions. Slight real increases in salary are found, with public institutions behind private colleges. In the past decade, faculty salaries have fallen behind those in the private sector. (MSE)

Faculty salary data, based on information collected by the National Center for Education Statistics and the AAUP is reported. Data showed that salary increases averaged 9 percent while the purchasing power of faculty salaries declined more than 20 percent during the last decade. (Author/MLW)

AN ANALYSIS OF FACULTY COMPENSATIONS SHOWS THAT THE OVERALL PERCENTAGE INCREASE DROPPED FROM 7.3 PERCENT IN 1965-66 TO 6.8 PERCENT IN 1966-67. THESE FIGURES, HOWEVER, DO NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT INCREASES WHICH RESULT FROM PROMOTION OF INDIVIDUALS, AND THUS THEY UNDERSTATE THE INDIVIDUAL'S INCREASED COMPENSATION. THE PERFORMANCE OF INSTITUTIONS IN…

AVERAGE SALARY INCREASES FOR INDIVIDUAL FACULTY MEMBERS ARE GENERALLY HIGHER THAN FIGURES FOR AN INSTITUTION'S AVERAGE SALARY INCREASES SHOW. THIS DISCREPANCY RESULTS FROM TWO BASICALLY DIFFERENT TYPES OF FIGURES--(1) THE INSTITUTION'S OVERALL STANDARD OF REMUNERATION AND (2) THE FINANCIAL IMPROVEMENT IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF A SINGLE…

Data for 1981-1981 on faculty salaries in California state colleges and universities are presented and interpreted. In addition to information on the University of California and the California State University and Colleges, salary data are also included for the California community colleges. Segmental salary requests and projections from the…

Total faculty earnings are compared with those of other professional occupations using earnings data collected by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Comparisons show faculty earnings appear to be comparable to those of nonacademicians. The use of academic contract salary data results in an underrepresentation of academic earnings. (Author/MLW)

The salaries of college and university faculty members increased an average of 4.7 percent in 1983-84. The greatest gains were at private, independent institutions. Statistics from the American Association of University Professors annual survey of faculty compensation are discussed. (MLW)

Findings of a study show that relative salary increases for faculty and administrators were quite similar since the early 1970s. The small salary advantage for administrators appears to be attributable to gains in those positions whose work most clearly parallels work done in the private sector. (MLW)

The General Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed reports published by seven states (Indiana, Maryland, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Washington, and Wisconsin) regarding the status of their families who have left welfare. The families discussed in the reports were estimated to account for approximately 8 percent of the number of families to…

This report is designed for analysis by the California Community College Chancellor's Office. Income data were collected for the 1992-93 cohort of community college completers and leavers their last year in school, first year out of school, and third year out of school. Graduates' earnings are based on data in the state unemployment insurance wage…

The complete report of Committee Z of the American Association of University Professors on the economic status of college faculty is presented. The average salary level of college and university professors rose by 6.6 percent. (MLW)