Flat fees and fair compensation

Flat fees, such as our healthcare costs or the recently proposed parking fee, provide a much more significant burden on low-wage employees than on high-wage employees. This is just basic math. When a cost or fee is constant, then it represents a higher percentage of income for a low-wage employee than for a high-wage employee. …

University of Washington struggles with salary policy

Here’s an article about faculty at the University of Washington trying to work on a policy to address salary compression. We have salary compression at Guilford, to be sure, and we also have other issues, many of which are bigger and more pressing than theirs. One major parallel: I see writ large in UW’s proposed …

Models for salary adjustments

The ad hoc Compensation Committee has been working to produce a formula for faculty compensation which I’ll be sharing with you over the next couple of days. We’ll be inviting participation and feedback as we head into next year, when we hope to implement a comprehensive policy with formulas and targets for faculty and staff salaries. …

Changes to part-time and overload compensation

Beth Rushing has recently changed and standardized compensation for part-time and overload teaching, both of which are paid by the course. She distributed this to division chairs, but I’m not sure everybody saw it. I thought it would be useful to post the prior system and the current system for comparison. The old system Under …

Data requested at Faculty Forum on Compensation

From Christine Riley: As promised, I’m sending along the website where you can find the CUPA data we referenced. CUPA is the gold standard for staff salaries in higher education, and they are the only organization [that I know of] that surveys faculty salaries by discipline. This information is publicly available. http://www.cupahr.org/surveys/fhe4.aspx Look for the …

Ideas from community forum on salary policy, April 8, 2015

We held a community forum on a fair salary policy on April 8, 2015. There’s more information about this including other materials here: Salary Policy Home At the community forum, we provided large poster sheets on the wall for people to add comments. We divided these into four general areas: Principles – principles and goals …

Comments from notecards at community forum, April 8, 2015

We held a community forum on a fair salary policy on April 8, 2015. There’s more information about this including other materials here: Salary Policy Home. The following comments were received on anonymous notecards turned in at the forum. Regarding concepts for Guilford to consider Staff: Using level of education to determine pay difference for …