This survey provides current data for school directors and administrators to examine the policies of compensation for professional personnel in the suburban Philadelphia area. The report contains three sections: a) salaries of teachers, b) salaries of instructional specialists, and c) salaries of administrative and supervisory personnel. Mean…

This survey provides current data for school directors and administrators to examine the policies of compensation for professional personnel in the suburban Philadelphia area. The report contains three sections: a) salaries of teachers, b) salaries of instructional specialists, and c) salaries of administrative and supervisory personnel. Mean…

This study, undertaken at the request of the Joint International Labour Office/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers, examines the earnings of teachers in a worldwide context. Drawing on material relating to the public sector of education in over 70 countries, it considers…

This study used 10 years of personnel data of Michigan State University faculty to explore the returns in salary to seniority (the wage-tenure profile) and the degree to which these returns respond to entry-level salaries (or opportunity wages). Elasticities of senior-faculty salaries were estimated with respect to entry-level salaries, and…

Compares the cost of advanced education with the apparent benefit of obtaining an advanced degree and the long term net earnings differentials for each advanced degree. (Author/RK)

The applicability of the principle of comparable pay for comparable worth is discussed for college faculty jobs, not only for alleviation of sex discrimination but also for eliminating bias-related discrepancies between departments or specialties. (MSE)

A new program at Mercy College (New York) links faculty salaries to student enrollment and is designed to help the college through a financial crisis. Supporters see the policy as making good business sense, and faculty are finding ways to encourage students to enroll and persist. Critics feel the policy will encourage faculty to give higher…

An American Association of University Professors report finds the highest one-year gains (above inflation) in over a decade in faculty's "real salaries" in 1997-98. While salaries have not returned to 1970s predecline levels, the generally upward trend is continuing. The report also compares faculty salaries with those of others at…

The ambiguity concerning the status and role of the academic librarian and its reflection in the salary disparity between librarians and teaching faculty, and the differences of opinion concerning the solution, are discussed. (MSE)

Argues that, although the high salaries of faculty "superstars" may disadvantage other faculty and staff, particularly in a period of downsizing, the more serious problem is the tradition of large discipline-based differences in faculty salaries which undermine the principles of merit-based compensation. Resentment of "superstar" salaries may have…

Charts and graphs illustrate trends in (1) values of college employee pension money invested in the stock market since 1990; (2) college spending on a variety of faculty fringe benefits in 1992-93, by institution type; and (3) the relationship between faculty salaries and the cost of living, 1986-87 to 1992-93. (MSE)

Compensation in higher education is an inclusive term, since all the benefits associated with teaching, research, work with people, and work with knowledge might be included. But in terms of purchasing power it appears that compensation for work in higher education has lost ground against inflation. In contrast, wage and salary earners in many…

Academic man is now, more than in earlier times, economic and political man. The parties interested in or affected by faculty salaries are: (1) faculty members; (2) other college employees; (3) executive officers and institutional boards of control; and (4) benefactors or funders, including students, philanthropists, state coordinating bodies,…

The difficulty for an institution of finding a balance between traditional faculty compensation practices and free labor market practices that raise the salaries of faculty in high-demand disciplines in government, industry, and education is discussed. (MSE)

The economic theory of comparable worth is discussed as it is applied to the issue of teacher salaries and instructional quality. It is argued that application of the theory may be a cause of rather than a solution to some current problems of teacher shortages, teacher education, and productivity. (MSE)