This position paper details the AFT's opposition to vertical staffing patterns which create salary differentials based on different "levels" of responsibility and thus foster disunity among teachers. It supports, rather, the concept of horizontally differentiated roles and responsibilities, which bases extra salaries upon the union principle of…

Three economic studies of the effects of bargaining are reviewed in relation to collective negotiations and teachers' salaries. These studies include negotiation and salaries in Michigan, negotiations and average state salaries, and negotiations and salaries in large urban systems. The conclusion indicates that salary benefits of collective…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1500 words) of an article by a Croatian discussing certain reforms in educational administration in the Socialist Republic of Croatia. The author starts by discussing education against the background of the new Yugoslav social and economic order. To comply with these trends, he insists…

It is hypothesized that three factors would predispose women in specifiable positions to lower-than-expected salaries: length of service, rank, and proportion of females in the field. A multiple regression technique is used. (LBH)

A report on a study which examined the possibility of instituting a merit pay plan in a small school district in California. The paper is a preliminary investigation aimed at focusing attention on the substantive issues of merit pay and their effect on instructional performances. (Author)

Outlines how and why the Burnham Unit Total System was established and why it has survived. The system is one of the key determinants of the career structure of school teachers. (Author/IRT)

Examines conflicting values underlying debates about teacher compensation reform, highlighting a persistent dilemma: although school systems use monetary incentives to motivate teachers, they really do not want teachers who are primarily motivated by money. Examines teacher workforce composition, teacher values, and the history of merit pay. Some…

Examined the extent to which labor-market conditions and the sex-composition of academic disciplines influenced average disciplinary salaries, based on the average, full-time 1988-89 salaries of new assistant professors for 16 academic disciplines. Findings from both cross-sectional and dynamic models indicated that both labor-market conditions…

Using a model to test whether choice-driven schools pay a higher wage differential and increase hiring for certain teacher characteristics, data from schools with traditional school choice and charter schools were analyzed. Choice affected the value schools placed on teachers' effort, independence, college education, and math and science skills.…

Using Current Population Survey data, this study investigates the effect of a wage differential between a teacher's current wage and wages of alternative occupations on teachers' decisions to leave the profession. Results show that opportunity costs (wage differentials) influence teacher supply. A merit-based, market-sensitive teacher salary…

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)

Focusing on research universities, this study examines historical patterns in faculty salaries, recent evidence on salaries, the tenuous connection between salaries and performance, and the role of salaries in effective academic-reward systems. Administrative implications for salary policies that improve productivity are also examined. (Author/MSE)