Obviously, a lot is going on at Guilford these days. Some of that has had me looking back at salary figures in response to requests from Guilford allies, so I thought I’d take a moment and provide updates to the comparisons I usually do between Guilford salaries and our traditional peer group, AAUP Category IIB … Read more
The college lists the following as “Hallmarks” of the compensation plan: Transparency, Predictability, Consistency, Equity, Excellence, and Accountability.
I was part of a meeting on Friday with several members of college leadership, our compensation consultant Christine Riley, Jim Hood, and Natalya Shelkova (from compensation committee). In that meeting, we discussed whether the college has been using the wrong number for setting faculty salary targets over the past three years. We know that in … Read more
I’m getting a lot of mail about the revised letters that Frank posted. Rather than answer them all separately, let me put some of that here. The graph below shows three different models applied to three different faculty ranks. The 2018 model (heavy dashes) used a $300 per year annual increment, as we’ve been doing … Read more
UPDATE: The graphs below aren’t entirely accurate, and they calculate salaries for upper ranks that are too high. Please wait on an explanation from the Provost. My previous post detailed how my salary target was not where it was supposed to be given the President’s announced salary base values. Here’s some more information. We should … Read more
My new salary target was set at $82,180 by the Dean’s office, but I think that’s wrong. Here are my calculations: Jane reported the base salary for full at $63,988 in her e-mail. I get the $5,000 for terminal degree, so that’s $68,988. I have worked at Guilford 22 years. They didn’t count my earlier … Read more
I asked for Guilford’s most recent IRS Form 990. I do this for several reasons, but I got started with the 990’s after the administrator bonus fiasco at the end of the Chabotar administration in order to have a look at our reported compensation for administrators. This most recent report allowed me to track the … Read more
Back in February, I calculated an update to the Category IIB percentiles we used to publish in our Factbook. That post is here. The AAUP has now posted data for the 2018-19 academic year. This year includes both the recent rounds of raises in January 2017 (in effect for the last half of 2016-17, although … Read more
I spent some time Tuesday collecting some numbers and looking back at Guilford salaries. My goal was to recreate some of the numbers that Guilford used to report in its annual Factbook. That Factbook no longer exists, as far as I can tell, and the reporting of salaries compared to standards fizzled out in about … Read more
Ione Taylor, chair of the Academic Affairs committee of the Board of Trustees, just noted to the full board in their public meeting the need for improving faculty salaries to match our peers and competitors. She referred to this as ‘deferred people maintenance,’ naming it as a need equivalent to the deferred maintenance of our … Read more