Pay compression and inversion are significant problems for many organizations and are often severe in schools of business in particular. At the same time, there is more insistence on showing accountability and paying employees based on performance. The authors explain and show a detailed example of how to use a Compensation Equity/ Performance…

How do salaries of elementary and middle school principals compare with those of other administrators and classroom teachers? Are increases in salaries of principals keeping pace with increases in salaries of classroom teachers? And how have principals' salaries fared over the years when the cost of living is taken into account? There are reliable…

In the university setting, the issue of faculty morale typically has been linked to a variety of perceived inequities, including inequities in faculty salary. New approaches for analyzing two different, but related, types of inequity are proposed. One approach addresses whether salary compression, often perceived by faculty to exist, actually does…

One of the most important aspects of growing and improving business education is replacing departed faculty members. As the baby-boom generation approaches retirement, the supply of available replacement faculty members is diminishing. The result is a competitive market for replacement faculty that features increasing starting salary levels. In…

There has been a long-standing concern amongst policymakers, economists, and trade unions over the persistent earnings gap between men and women in the Canadian labour market. Although this gap has narrowed over time, women's average hourly wages still remain about 16% lower than that earned by men. The reasons for this inequality in male and…

This study of academic salary levels suggests that while teaching is rewarded, research output and administrative experience are the predominant determinants of faculty salary levels. (Author/JB)

This report is the fourth in a series covering salary schedules used in 2-year institutions. The salary schedules reported cover 40,970 full-time faculty members representing 59.4% of total full-time faculty in 2-year colleges in 1970-71. The report's first section contains an overview of the characteristics of the salary schedules in the 416…

Discusses the need for a merit pay plan that is objective in its standards as well as valid and reliable. (Author/GB)

The average of annual salaries paid elementary school principals in 1999-2000 ($69,407) is 64.4 percent above that of classroom teachers. Principals' annual salaries have kept pace with those of classroom teachers, central-office administrators, and public school employees generally. Principals average 226 days on duty. (MLH)

Attempts to describe institutional salary behavior relative to the AAUP salary scales. The research has found that schools that reported in the AAUP surveys apparently are concerned with keeping the pace of salary grade changes set by the AAUP and thus maintaining or improving their comparative salary status. (Author)

This study is the sixth in a series of reports on salary schedules in effect at institutions of higher education that grant the 4-year bachelor's or higher degree. The information given here is derived from the salary schedules supplied by the 4-year institutions in connection with the 1971-72 survey, Salaries Paid and Salary-Related Practices in…

Presents eight suggestions to help publications advisers in their efforts at negotiating for financial compensation for after-hours work. (JM)

The 1994-95 ERS "National Survey of Salaries and Wages" reports $75,236 as the mean average salary paid assistant superintendents and $61,323 as the mean average salary paid directors of finance and business. The average salary for the latter is 64.6 percent above that of classroom teachers. Salary increases trail cost-of-living increases. (MLH)