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CU-Boulder Faculty Salaries Sources and Calculation Methods
CU-Boulder vs AAU Faculty Salaries --
Background: Each year, CU-Boulder reports faculty salary information
- To the federal government through its IPEDS (Integrated Post-Secondary
Education Reporting System) surveys. We report salaries and headcounts
by rank, gender, tenure status, and 9 vs 11-12 month contract, plus
benefits overall. These reports are required by law.
- To the AAUP (American Association of University Professors). Same
information as to IPEDS, plus benefits by rank.
- To the AAUDE (AAU data exchange, where AAU is American Association
of Universities, an invitational group). Salaries and FTE only, by rank
and discipline or department.
For CU-Boulder, the base data come from the Academic Affairs
budget process. They are compiled accordingly to federal reporting rules.
- Salaries are budgeted amounts set at the start of the fiscal year
- Only individuals with continuing general fund budget line appointments
are included. This excludes a few faculty members now paid with external
funds; Tom Cech has been the best-known example
- This exclusion is not required by federal rules; we may try to
include these individuals next year
- Both 9-month and 11-12-month contracts are included. 11-12 month
salaries are converted to a 9-month basis by multiplying by 9/11 (.818),
per AAUP procedures
- Only "full-time" faculty are included. In years through 97-98, Jim
Connolly of Academic Affairs defined this as .70 FTE or greater. In
98-99 Brazeau and McClelland elected to include only individuals with
100% appointments. (Federal rules are ambiguous.)
- Only a tiny number of faculty in prior years had .70-.99 FTE
appointments. However, we do not fully understand how their salaries
were handled in reporting.
- We report to the federal government and AAUP on instructors (our
instructor and senior instructor ranks) as well as full, associate,
and assistant professors. However, many AAU institutions list no instructors.
We have therefore excluded instructors from all six displays.
- Academic Affairs places each faculty member in a discipline area
based on the letter of offer. For 97-98 and 98-99 Brazeau and Lucio
succeeded in associating every faculty member except MASP and RAP instructors
with a regular department. In 96-97 and prior years, however, Jim Connolly
listed several faculty with institutes only. These individuals could
not be placed in a department or college.
- Faculty on leave, with or without pay, are included as long as their
continuing budget line persists.
- Librarians are excluded.
- Visiting, adjunct, adjoint, lecturer, and honorarium-part-time are
excluded.
- Deans and associate deans are excluded.
- Chair stipends, summer stipends, etc. are not included in salaries.
Other institutions are governed by the same federal reporting
rules. However, we fully expect that there are differences across institutions,
and over time, in
- Inclusion of individuals paid from external sources
- Definitions of full-time
- Inclusion of faculty on leave
- Inclusion of librarians, chair stipends, associate deans, adjunct,
etc.
- Affiliation of individuals with disciplines
- Other things
Only the AAUDE data are by discipline or department. They are
reported to us by rank by discipline.
- Disciplines are denoted by CIP codes -- federal Classification of
Instructional Program codes. For example, a humanities department will
have the CIP code 230301. We also report student enrollments and degrees
by CIP code.
Decisions made at every step of analysis can affect the results. In
CU-Boulder analyses of faculty salary data we
- Determine the list of comparison institutions (listed in Display
F) by eliminating
- all private and all Canadian institutions
- department/ranks reporting no FTE or no average salary
- Exclude all data from medical departments or colleges, and veterinary
colleges, except departments with CIP code 5102xx, which correspond
to our Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences department.
- Use the CIP codes reported to map departments at other institutions
into CU-Boulder departments and colleges. For example, several CIP code
ranges map to our English department, which covers English literature,
American literature, and creative writing.
- We have done extensive checks on these mappings and are convinced
they are appropriate. We also believe they are more rigorous than
what was done in past years. However, we would be happy to share
the lists of CIP codes, and department names, that are mapped to
any CU-Boulder department.
- This results in some FTE/salaries that
- Correspond to UCB A&S but not to any UCB department. Examples:
Iowa's "Foreign language and literature" department, Purdue's
"Visual and performing arts" department. CU-Boulder has no A&S
faculty who are not in a department.
- Correspond to UCB Engineering but not to any UCB department.
Examples: mineral and agricultural engineering departments.
CU-Boulder has a few Engineering faculty not in a department;
these include Interdisciplinary Technology Program (ITP) faculty
- Correspond to no CU-Boulder school or college. Examples:
Agriculture, social work.
- Calculate AAU averages for each discipline/rank by "averaging
the averages," giving each institution with any FTE equal weight
regardless of size. Calculate the standard deviation at the same
time.
- Calculate AAU averages for A&S and Engineering using discipline
weights found at CU-Boulder. For example, in 1996-97 17% of UCB
Engineering FTE, but only 6% elsewhere, were in aerospace in 1996-97.
When calculating the AAU average for engineering, we used .17 (in
96-97) to weight aerospace salaries.
- Calculate AAU all-colleges averages the same way, using CU-Boulder
discipline weights. This effectively excludes salaries of faculty
elsewhere in social work, agriculture, and other disciplines not
found on the Boulder campus. It also means that the all-campus figures
for other institutions will not match what those institutions reported
to IPEDS or the AAUP for themselves
- Finally, calculate all-ranks averages for each discipline, A&S,
Engineering, and all-colleges combined. This can be done two ways,
weighting the full, associate, and assistant salaries by the FTE
in the AAU, or FTE at CU-Boulder.
- All displays show only all-ranks figures based on CU-Boulder
weights.
- We have calculated AAU-weighted all-ranks figures as well.
However, we consider the UCB-weighted figures more appropriate
for salary comparisons.
Cautions and caveats
- Following tradition, the displays focus exclusively on average salaries
- They cannot be used (without a lot of additional arithmetic) to
determine UCB's total salary commitment to a discipline, or how
that is changing over time or relative to total commitment at AAUs.
Total commitment is, of course, a function not just of average salary
by rank but of
- distribution of FTE over ranks
- total number of FTE
- We know these are areas of interest. We could formulate additional
analyses to address them, if there is interest.
- We cannot release by-discipline salary information on individual
institutions without their permission, although the file we receive
from AAUDE does have institutions identified.
- The percentage change in average salary can be tricky. If a department
or college has some retirements/departures and/or some new hires between
years, the percentage change figure may be quite misleading with regard
to continuing faculty.
- Figures for small departments will be far more volatile than those
for groups with larger FTE.
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