Examines to what degree variation in average teacher salaries is caused by differences across states in cost of living, teachers' personal characteristics, job characteristics, and educational demand. Uses results to adjust the average salaries and computes new, significantly different state rankings based on these adjustments. (19 references)…

Investigates salary differences between black female faculty and their white male/female and black male counterparts. Results indicate that black women earn less than white and black males but slightly more than white women. Although race/gender differences in faculty earnings exist, they are largely explained by variations in rank, tenure,…

In "Market-Based Pay Reform for Public School Teachers"--a paper presented at the National Center on Performance Incentives research to policy conference in February--Michael Podgursky, professor of economics at the University of Missouri, examines the effects and unintended consequences of the current compensation system for teachers in…

The Washington State Council for Postsecondary Education reviews current faculty salaries within the context of the Council's policy recommendations in the 1975-77 biennium and in terms of comparisons with various measures of competition. Recommendations are made to the state legislature to provide funds to increase faculty and other exempt…

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Information on salaries paid to faculty in higher education in 1977-78 is presented. Data were obtained by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in its 1977-78 Higher Education General Information Survey. Only the salaries paid to faculty employed on 9-month regular academic year contracts are presented. Salary information is…

A review of current faculty salaries within the context of the Washington Council for Postsecondary Education policy position includes comparison with various measures of competition and the effect of past, present, and projected increases in the cost of living. Tables include listing for: average faculty salaries; consumer price index for fiscal…

This report summarizes teacher salary information obtained from the 1968-69 salary schedules of 1,749 school systems with enrollments of 1,200 or more. The school systems represented by these data employ approximately 87% of all classroom teachers, and enroll approximately 89% of all public school pupils in the nation. For comparative purposes the…

Women who are employed receive lower salaries on the average than men. The differences in faculty salaries are investigated in relation to the extent these differences can be explained by relatively objective factors, such as lack of the Ph.D. and differences in performance, and to what extent they appear to be the result of discrimination. Using…

This document reports on comparative salaries for men and women at Washburn University of Topeka, Kansas. A standard multiple linear regression equation was developed from data supplied. Using the factors of years at Washburn, degree, and rank, a "line of best fit" formula was developed which would predict a salary that could be…

This Affirmative Action Plan was designed to eliminate discrimination against women at the University of Pennsylvania. Thirteen steps are recommended: (1) issue a public statement recognizing the existence of discrimination against women at the University; (2) instruct the committee on the budget and inform the President's and Provost's staff…

This study reports on salary schedules in effect at institutions of higher education that grant the 4-year bachelor's degree or higher degrees. The information given here is derived from the salary schedules supplied by the institutions. The first section of this report contains an overview of the characteristics of the salary schedules in 172…

According to the study which analyzed effects of collective bargaining on teachers' salaries in a sample of 201 of Nebraska's 304 K-12 school districts in 1970-71, bargaining has had significant impact on salary structure. Elementary teachers apparently are particular beneficiaries, as the differential between secondary and elementary salaries has…

Discusses the value of an accredited yearbook class for yearbook staff members; reports on the duties of yearbook advisers at various high schools, and on the amount of extra salary paid to them for their work. (GW)

Supply-related factors, such as differences in opportunity costs, play a major role in determining interarea salary differentials, according to a study of teachers' salaries through an analysis of cross-sectional data for 83 central cities and for the 48 contiguous states for the period 1968-70. (SH)