Report on Faculty Salary Payments
by Academic Unit and by Gender
Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty- Ann Arbor Campus
May 2004
This report is the result of a
cooperative effort between the Provost and administrative staff and members of
the Ann Arbor Campus CESF and Senate Assembly. The report is intended to assist
faculty, administrators, and Regents in understanding the structure of
compensation in each school or college and within the University as a whole.
The goal of this report is to
provide a more transparent, optimal and equitable view of faculty salaries.
The purpose of this report is to provide information that can serve as a
base upon which the faculty and administration in each academic unit can begin
to develop a meaningful dialog about the factors that influence decisions on
salary and other elements of compensation.
The University's contribution to the economic status of individual faculty members depends on both published and unpublished compensation. Following the first CESF Report that included information on salary payments in 2002 the CESF determined that it would be useful to have the data further broken down by gender, in keeping with the Provost's Study Committee which recommended that... "each unit could well benefit from the opportunity for an open appraisal of the effect of their systems of reward for consequences on, for example, productivity over time, equity across race and gender, compression of salaries compared to comparable units in peer institutions, market offers, retention offers, etc."
Faculty compensation for tenured and tenure-track faculty
has been presented for each of the Ann Arbor campus schools. Over
the past ten years the composition
of the faculty is changing to include more faculty members who are not
on the tenure track. In order to
understand the total picture of compensation within a school data on these
faculty members CESF continues to request salary payment data for all
faculty ranks including Research Scientists, Clinical Faculty, Librarians,
Lecturers and Adjuncts. However, at
this time the administration is willing to release information on salary
payments to the committee on only one faculty category per year.
This report
shows both published salary rates and actual salary payments for the
corresponding academic year. Published
salary rates are reported in the annual report "An Analysis of Salaries
Paid to the University of Michigan Instructional Staff and Graduate Students”
known as the “yellow book", and in the “University of Michigan Faculty
and Staff Record” available in the library reporting individual faculty's
salary rates. The use of other salary payments on campus has often been opaque,
with it being unclear to faculty in many units how to become eligible or the
magnitude of these other payment categories available for extra teaching or
research effort, administrative effort, or stellar productivity.
This is the second open presentation of additional salary
payments for University of Michigan Ann Arbor faculty by this committee.
Most units offer some faculty a fraction of pay above base salary, which
usually appears on paychecks as Form G compensation, summer ninths or even
directly labeled as incentive pay. Aggregate
data for the business, medical and dental schools reflect the more broad use of
unpublished pay, making analysis of the published salary data for these units an
even less reliable reflection of actual pay than for other units. The Committee
has, for each school or college, calculated a General
Fund/Total Funds Ratio. This
ratio shows the amount of salary paid out of the general fund as a
percentage of the total funds expended on salary.
This may help highlight the differences in the published base pay within
an academic unit and the total compensation of faculty members.
When a faculty member holds a joint appointment the
salary data is reported under the school or college where the largest
appointment fraction is held. The data used is the most current information
available to the committee at the time of this report.
CESF wishes to thank the central administration and the academic units for their on-going assistance in providing this important information. The report will be available as web based document for UM faculty and staff and in printed form to others upon request. Terms are defined by following the link associated with each term.
CONCLUSION
CESF hopes faculty and administration will find the
report useful. The committee asks for your input about the data that you would
like to see and the questions you feel are posed by that data that CESF should
be exploring in the future. Please send your comments and feedback to cesf@umich.edu
TO ACCESS THE ONE-PAGE OVERVIEWS OF FACULTY COMPENSATION
Access to the one-page faculty salary overview for each school is restricted to UM Faculty and Administrative Staff members, therefore, you will need a password. You will need Adobe Acrobat 5.0 to view these files. (If you do not have Adobe Acrobat 5.0, please click here to download now)
Please click on the name of the school or college to
follow the link.
Architecture
and Urban Planning 2000-01
Architecture
and Urban Planning 2001-02
Business
Administration 2000-01
Business
Administration 2001-02
Literature, Science and Arts
LSA
- Humanities Division 2000-01
LSA
- Humanities Division 2001-02
LSA
– Natural Sciences Division 2000-01
LSA
– Natural Sciences Division 2001-02
LSA
– Social Sciences Division 2000-01
LSA
– Social Sciences Division 2001-02
Medical School
Medical
School – Basic Sciences 2000-01
Medical
School – Basic Sciences 2001-02
Medical
School – Clinical Services 2000-01
Medical
School – Clinical Services 2001-02
Natural Resources
and Environment 2000-01
Natural
Resources and Environment 2001-02
Public Policy*
*– Because the great majority of faculty in School of Public Policy hold joint appointments a salary data overview was not developed for this school. Faculty salaries are reported in the school with the greatest percentage of the appointment.