At Maryknoll School in Honolulu, Hawaii, a Coalition of Essential Schools affiliate since 1995, teachers and administrators are continually working on the issue of building capacity for leadership. This has led to implementation of an alternative to the traditional salary scale. The Compensation Committee, made up of teachers, administrators, and…

An analysis of the total compensation of presidents and the five highest-paid employees at 190 private colleges and universities in 1993 looked at the additional variables of institutional expenditure level, institution type, reputation, and student Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) scores. Results indicated that institutional expenditures,…

Providing administrators and policy makers with reliable comparative data, this 1983-84 survey of salaries and wages of school employees focuses on 23 professional positions in 1,217 school systems, reporting separate figures for large, medium, small, and very small school systems. Data are also reported on five levels of per pupil expenditures…

As part of the Administrative Team Career Development Series, this booklet outlines several factors to consider in establishing compensation structures for school district administrators. Such structures must balance the needs and interests of the employee, the school system, and the public. Salary, working conditions, and fringe benefits must all…

Defines four distinct theories of wage discrimination: equal pay for equal work, equal pay for similar work, equal pay for equal or comparable worth, and pay parity. Court cases involving comparable worth are discussed and statistics cited. The effect of job evaluations and the power of the marketplace are examined also. (CT)

Six issues were examined in a study of faculty salary systems in independent schools. The author presents 15 observations resulting from the study. (MD)

Discusses results of a California Library Association study that investigated library employees' salaries as compared to salaries of employees in comparable public jobs. Highlights include reasons for unfair library employee compensation; comparisons of support staff supervisor salaries and executive salaries; and how to use the data to improve…

This second part of a two-part article describes specific steps that early childhood administrators can take to create an equitable compensation structure. They need to conduct a job analysis of and write a job description for each position, determine comparable worth, set salaries, and determine advancement policies. (MDM)

A study was done comparing faculty salaries at the University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP) with those at other similar institutions for fall 1991. The data were drawn from the fiscal year 1992 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System survey, "Salary, Tenure, and Fringe Benefits of Full-Time Instructional Faculty," and the…

Data on 1995-96 private college faculty and administrator compensation, based on tax returns of 477 colleges, reveals half the presidents received raises outpacing inflation. Fifty received no raise. Overall, the highest paid were medical faculty, although 47 coaches and athletic directors were among the highest paid at their institutions.…

Having recently represented their colleagues in discussions with the administration of their institution, Saint Anselm College, about faculty compensation, the authors of this paper decided to compile a guide for other professors at similar institutions--small, private liberal arts colleges--who may be called on to negotiate salary packages…

Maintaining an outstanding system of higher education requires investments in the faculty members who cultivate the human capital upon which our economy's recovery and future growth will depend. Sadly, the record of the last three decades shows that, when measured by the inflation-adjusted salaries paid to college faculty members or by the…

In response to a growing dialogue at the local, state and national levels around the idea of restructuring teacher pay to include performance measures, the American Association of School Administrators surveyed a randomly selected sample of its members to gauge their feedback and interest in pay-for-performance programs. AASA launched this survey…

More and more institutions of higher education are hiring sustainability officers to manage and coordinate their sustainability initiatives. To promote greater understanding of this emerging career field, AASHE conducted a survey of campus sustainability officers. The "Higher Education Sustainability Officer Position" and "Salary…

Data from the salary schedules used in this study were collected as part of the "National Survey of Salaries and Wages in Public Schools, 1986-87," conducted in fall 1986. Of the 1,031 school systems responding with usable data, 535 (52 percent) supplied schedules that could be analyzed and included in this report. An overview of…