Using data from a 1977 survey of faculty from 158 U.S. colleges and universities, the author estimates that the proportional salary advantage to unionized faculty members was typically less than two percent. Unionization increased the return to seniority and decreased the return to several measures of merit, including publications and post-degree…

Compares Australian academic salaries and those throughout the rest of the English-speaking world; examines movements in prices and community wages; and compares salaries in similar occupations in the public sector. Examines the changing nature of academic salaries. (JOW)

Analysis of career histories of 9,756 Washington teachers using a transition probability model shows that teachers work for less time in districts that spend more for administrators or nonteachers, female teachers stay longer when teacher salaries increase relative to other local jobs, and male teachers stay longer when teachers are paid more…

Despite recent increases in teacher salaries, the earnings of teachers as compared to those of other college graduates in the Southeast have changed little in the last five years. This report compares the average annual earnings of teachers to the average annual earnings of college graduates in full-time, salaried nonteaching positions in the six…

If schools are to retain competent career teachers, then they will have to create new salary differentials and new categories for recognizing widely differing teacher abilities. The present standardization of teacher classification, certification, and salary schedules does not acknowledge individual teacher differences. Teachers do not fear…

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

Provides an analysis of teacher salaries designed to (1) outline a model that could be used to determine the relationship between teacher characteristics and educational output and (2) determine the demand price a school should be willing to pay per unit of these characteristics. (Author)

This article deals with the effects of inflation and the New Economic Policy in the United States on teacher salaries, educational expenditures and student teacher ratios. (MS)

Discusses the advantages and problems connected with the implementation of pay boards to replace collective bargaining agreements on teacher salaries. (WD)

Presents arguments on both sides of the question of offering bonuses to teachers and administrators whose disadvantaged students showed significant increases in test scores. (IRT)

Examination of several methods of identifying faculty salary inversion (pay of some junior faculty exceeding that of senior faculty) found no single best method. However, applicability of certain models to different disciplines at different funding levels was demonstrated. (SK)

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)

Presents details of an effort by Indiana State University to apply multiple regression analysis to the problem of eliminating faculty salary inequities. The model developed can be used to identify inequities and improve faculty salary allocation decisions by combining data with peer evaluation. (Author/JOW)

There have been numerous lawsuits within higher education brought by females over pay inequity and many articles have been written on the topic. Although not as prevalent, there have been some recent instances where male faculty have claimed--with some degree of success--that the process used by their institutions to make salary adjustments for…

In U.S. K-12 public education, incentive pay for educators remains firmly fixed as a high-interest policy topic and has recently become a popular reform initiative in many school systems. The Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), created in 2006 by the U.S. Department of Education, is at the forefront of this policy movement and has provided hundreds of…