Greetings:<div><br></div><div>Each year we add more campuses to our salary survey. For better formatting, view the attached PDF files. Highlights of this year's analysis are the following:</div><div><br></div><div><ul>
<li>North Idaho College, the only campus with a salary scale with guaranteed annual steps, has the highest 2-year college salaries in the Mt. West.</li><li>UI and LCSC assoc. and full professors have actually fallen off the national average from last year. Must have been the effect of the furloughs</li>
<li>Unionized campuses across the nation make 11-16% more in salaries</li><li><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">BSU Full Profs 35% Behind National Average;</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">LCSC, 34%; ISU, 33%; and UI, 25%</span><p class="MsoNormal">
</p></li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Salary compression is so severe at LCSC that new assistant professors will outstrip current associate professors in ten years. The latter are being penalized for their seniority and their satisfactory performance.</li>
</ul><div>Yours for better paid faculty,</div></div><div><br></div><div>Nick Gier, President, Idaho Federation of Teachers, AFT/AFL-CIO</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.8pt"><font face="Georgia, serif"><b><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">2012</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">
IDAHO FACULTY SALARY SURVEY</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">See Tables at <a href="http://www.idaho-aft.org/Survey12.pdf">www.idaho-aft.org/Survey12.pdf</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Losses in Real and Comparative Terms;
especially at UI and LCSC</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Unionized Campuses make 11-16% More</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Salary Step System at North Idaho College;
7 percent ahead of Mt. West 2-Year Schools</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">CWI: The Egalitarian Campus, but still
far behind its peers</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Salary Compression at LCSC: Same
Promotion Increments for BSU, ISU, UI, and LCSC</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">UI, BSU, ISU, LCSC Lag Way Behind</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">UI, ISU, BSU Heads 261% Ahead of CPI</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Their Full Professors are 46% Behind</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Unionized Campuses make 11.3-15.6% More</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">This year’s AAUP
national survey contains a comparison of<b>
</b>salaries at unionized versus non-unionized campuses. At public institutions
that grant master’s degrees, unionized faculties made 15.6 percent more; 11.3
percent more at baccalaureate colleges; and 15.5 percent more at community
colleges. The AAUP survey generally distinguishes between salary and total
compensation, which includes fringe benefits. If those data were included in
this calculation, then the differences would have been greater.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Over 77 percent
of faculty at Ph.D.-granting institutions are not under collective bargaining agreements,
so the higher salaries at unionized campuses have yet to affect the average there.
As an example, University of Washington, Washington State University,
University of Oregon, and Oregon State University, and the University of
California system have no union contracts, but all the other campuses in these
three states do.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Salary Step System at North Idaho College;
7% Ahead of Mt. West 2-Year Schools</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">At the center of
every faculty union contract is a salary scale. With satisfactory performance
each employee receives seniority pay by advancing one step in the scale. Cost-of-living
raises increase the base for each step. Where merit pay is recognized, the
faculty member then advances several steps. Promotion in rank is rewarded by
jumping up to a new line of steps. In
this regard see our proposed UI salary step system in Table IV <a href="http://www.idaho-aft.org/Survey12.pdf">www.idaho-aft.org/Survey12.pdf</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">North Idaho
College is the only Idaho campus with a salary scale, and it can be viewed at <a href="http://www.idaho-aft.org/NICscale12.pdf">www.idaho-aft.org/NICscale12.pdf</a>.
Faculty with M.A. degrees (plus 0-15 credits) start at $41,928, and advance to
$43,399 the next year for an increase of $1,471. Those with an M.A. plus 30
credits make $68,041 after 20 years. <i>This
does not include increases to the entire scale, which is determined by the NIC
president and her board. </i>During tough times during the 2000s, the NIC
administration did not authorize the annual step increase. When faculty alerted President Priscella Bell
that the NIC policy manual required that the
steps be financed, she directed her board to restore the lost pay.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">With guaranteed annual increases, there
is no surprise in the fact that NIC is only 8 percent behind its national peers
and 7 percent ahead of Mt. West schools?</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">CWI: The Egalitarian Campus, but still
far behind its peers</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">College of
Western Idaho in Caldwell is not only Idaho’s newest but it is also the most
equal, at least in pay for faculty. About
68 percent of CWI faculty make between $40,000-44,000, and the average salary
is $43,442. This is 25 percent behind the national average for 2-year colleges
without rank and 12 percent behind Mountain West campuses. The CWI president’s
salary is $175,000, which is 4 times average faculty salary compared to 4.75 at
UI, 5.25 at BSU, and 5.8 at ISU.
Salaries for the entire CWI campus can be viewed at <a href="http://www.idaho-aft/">www.idaho-aft</a>.org/ CWIpay12.mht.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Salary Compression at LCSC and Beyond; Promotion
increments of $6,000 and $8,500 should be awarded to all Idaho professors</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The following
statement was original composed by the LCSC AFT chapter and then approved by
the Faculty Association on April 12, 2012. The concluding paragraph has been
deleted, but it can be read at <a href="http://www.idaho-aft.org/LCSCCompression.pdf">www.idaho-aft.org/LCSCCompression.pdf</a>.
The problem explained in this report is bolstered by the fact that LCSC average
associate and full professor pay dropped from FY11 to FY12, but assistant
professors earned more. See Table I at
<a href="http://www.idaho-aft.org/Survey12.pdf">www.idaho-aft.org/Survey12.pdf</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">“Salary
compression has long been an issue in academia, but the correct term to use now
at Lewis-Clark State College is salary inversion. While the base numbers
vary somewhat from division to division, what they all have in common is that
assistant professors hired after 2009 or 2010 (depending on the division) have
starting salaries surpassing other assistant professors hired before then and
near or surpassing the salaries of associate professors hired in 2003 through
2007. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">“When these
newest hires make associate professor, they will all out-earn their more senior
associate colleagues by typically between three and four thousand dollars. Given this situation, it is now the case that
seniority is de facto penalized, with lower pay going to those guilty only of
having been here longer. Rank and merit, the typical reasons for pay
differences, are not factored into salary determination at present.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">“This situation
must be rectified. It is negatively
affecting morale and impacts the recruitment and retention of quality educators
for which LCSC is regionally and nationally known. Therefore, as a faculty, we are formally
requesting that the issue of salary compression/ inversion be addressed for the
upcoming fiscal year, beginning July 1, 2012.”
</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">In order to do
this, we propose that all assistant professors be brought up to the base-level
salary of new assistant professors hired this year (or last year, if no new
hires were made this year) in their respective divisions/ programs, and the
salaries of associate and full professors affected by compression/inversion be
adjusted up using the basic promotion steps of $3,000 and $5,000, respectively,
from the new assistant-level baselines established in each division/program.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">For many years
the UI Faculty Federation urged the administration to increase the promotion
increments in order to alleviate salary compression in the upper ranks. The awards used to be $1,000 for promotion to
associate and $1,500 to full. We take
some credit for the fact that those increments are now been boosted to $6,000
and $8,500. <i>ISU, BSU, and LCSC have lower
awards, and there is no reason why they should not be the same for all four
campuses.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">UI Faculty Salaries for FY12; Fulls and
Associates Fall Back from National Averages</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">FY12 faculty
salaries by UI department can now be viewed at <a href="http://www.idaho-aft.org/">www.idaho-aft.org/</a>UIsalariesFY12.pdf. We have now, since publishing the UI report
in January, added percentage increases from the previous year. The UI
administration used to provide these numbers, but we now use an Excel program
to calculate them. For UI salaries back to FY82, see Table II at <a href="http://www.idaho-aft.org/">www.idaho-aft.org/</a>Survey12.pdf.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Since 2010 the
UI no longer prepares extensive in-house analyses of peer institution salaries.
The reason given is that there have been no salary increases, so it is not
worth the precious time of UI statisticians.
AAUP data demonstrates, however, that some faculty salaries at UI and
LCSC have decreased in real terms, not only in comparison to national averages.
This must be the result of the furloughs that all Idaho faculty and staff were
forced to take last year. The only exceptions are the assistant professors,
which offer a confirmation of the LCSC analysis discussed above. Please consult
Table I at www. <a href="http://www.idaho-aft.org/Survey12.pdf">idaho-aft.org/Survey12.pdf</a>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">BSU Full Profs 35% Behind National
Average; </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">LCSC, 34%; ISU, 33%; and UI, 25% </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">According to
AAUP data, BSU full professors lag by 35% others at Ph.D.-granting
institutions. BSU associates and
assistants are behind 21 percent and 20 percent respectively. In the same
category ISU lags 33/23/22 and UI faculty are 25/15/13. For baccalaureate
campuses LCSC lags 34/31/24.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Note</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">: The ISU administration did not send in data for FY12, so
we are using FY11 figures. Is President
Arthur Vailas boycotting the AAUP for its decision to put ISU on its sanctions
list for violating basic faculty governance principles?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Idaho University Prezs 261% Ahead of CPI;</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Their Full Professors are 46% Behind</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">National: 9.5% raises for execs; 0% for
faculty</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Inflation adjusted Median Salary
FY08-FY11</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">(AAUP analysis)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The following is
reprinted from <i>Faculty Advocate</i> 21:4</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The UI Faculty
Federation is fortunate to have presidential and full professor salaries back
to 1982. Over that 30-year period, full professor pay has increased 208%, while
the president’s salary has increased 487%--from $57,115 to $335,005. ISU President Arthur Vailas and BSU president
Bob Kustra now make the same as UI President Duane Nellis, but ISU and BSU full
professor have increased only 168% and 163% since 1982. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The Consumer
Price Index (CPI) for October 2011 was 226, so Idaho full professors are on
average 46% behind the cost-of-living, while their presidents are 261%
ahead. The Idaho State Board of Education
decided to bring Vailas and Kustra up to Nellis’ level to alleviate concerns about
equity. When will ISU and BSU full professors reach the same level as UI full
professors?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Many defend the high cost of
university executives. As David Warren, president of the National Association
of Independent Colleges and Universities, states: “The job of college president
has changed dramatically in the last 30 years, as have the demands. There is
just a small pool of candidates who possess the skill set that is required and
are willing to take on the stressful 24/7 nature of the position.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Even if these points are
granted, there is still the principle of equity, which we strongly support, and
the fact that for FY 2010 full professors in all Ph.D.-</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif""> </span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">granting public institutions made an
average of $116,750. The same year Idaho’s full professors made on average
$66,200, a whopping $50,500 difference. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">In its annual survey of
executive pay <i>The Chronicle of Higher
Education </i>(April 3, 2011) reported that the median salary for public
university presidents was $375,442. While
Idaho’s full professors are 43 percent behind their national peers, there is
only an 11 percent deficit for their presidents.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The range for tens of thousands
of public full professor salaries for FY10 was about $60,000 to $300,000,
whereas the range for a far fewer numbers of presidents was much larger
($200,000 to $1,300,000) with much more concentration at the bottom. Therefore, the use of the median for presidents
is justified statistically.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Read the full <i>Chronicle </i>article at <a href="http://www.idaho-aft.org/%20PresidentsFY10.pdf">www.idaho-aft.org/
PresidentsFY10.pdf</a>. Faculty salary data are from the AAUP annual
survey. Full professor salaries are the
focus because they have not increased as much as assistants and associates
have. FY10 figures were the only ones available for executive salaries.</span></p>
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