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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 general fund budget line appointments
are included. This excludes a few faculty members paid with external
funds; Tom Cech has been the best-known example
- 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 1998-99 and after Brazeau and
McClelland elected to include only individuals whose continuing appointments total 100%.
(Federal rules are ambiguous.) Some individuals with full time continuing appointments may have
part time appointments in one or both terms.
- We report to the federal government and AAUP on instructors (our
instructor and senior instructor ranks combined) as well as full, associate,
and assistant professors. However, many AAU institutions list no instructors.
We have therefore excluded instructors from all displays except display A.
- Faculty on leave without pay are excluded but those on leave with pay are included.
- Librarians are excluded.
- Visiting, adjunct, adjoint, lecturer, and honorarium are excluded.
- Deans and associate deans are excluded, as are faculty serving in chancellor,
associate vice chancellor, institute directors, and CU system administration positions.
- 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.
- In 2004-05 the number of institutions in our comparison list went from 32 to 31 institutions.
Current and prior years' data for Texas A&M are excluded due to reporting irregularities in both average
salaries and FTE counts. We hope to resolve these issues in time for the 2005-06 analysis. Rutgers is excluded due
to faculty union membership.
- The number of institutions in our comparison list went from 30 to 32 institutions
in 2003-04. We have current and two prior years of data for Texas A&M but only 2002-03 and 2003-04 data for
SUNY-Stony Brook (SUNY-SB). We calculated 2001-2002 SUNY-SB salary data using 2002-03 salary data and an
overall SUNY-SB salary increase of 1.78% between 2001-02 and 2002-03. Now all faculty salary studies
at CU-Boulder use the same set of institutions which excludes only one AAU public. Rutgers is excluded due
to faculty union membership.
- The number of institutions in our comparison list went from 24 to 30 institutions
in 2001-02. Now all faculty salary studies at CU-Boulder use the same set of institutions which
excludes only three AAU publics. SUNY-Stony Brook and Texas A&M are new AAU members so their
inclusion in these studies will begin in 2003-04. Rutgers is excluded due to faculty union membership.
- In 2000-01 we broke the precedent of reporting each individual in a single discipline or department.
Starting in 2000-01 and continuing, we allocate individuals to departments on an appointment basis.
An individual with an appointment in multiple academic departments is allocated to each department.
Individuals with two 50% appointments are allocated equally to both departments. We have not
regenerated CU-Boulder data for 99-00 or prior using the new allocation rule. We apologize for the
noncomparability over time this introduces for some departments. At the college and campus level
the effect is nil.
- Because AAUDE reporting is by academic discipline, we cannot allocate faculty to interdisciplinary
institutes. Individuals who are appointed 50% in a department and 50% in an institute are considered
as 100% in the department. We hope eventually to find a better solution for such cases.
- In 2001-02 we made another change in associating individuals with departments. Through 00-01
the association was based on department of hiring or tenure offer. Starting in 01-02 we are using
current roster department. For most faculty these two are the same, but some departments (e.g.,
Ethnic Studies) have several currently rostered members whose hiring or tenure offer was in a
different department. We have not regenerated CU-Boulder data for 00-01 or prior using this
new rule. Again, we apologize for the noncomparability over time this introduces for some departments.
Again, the effect is nil at the college and campus level.
- 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
- institutions that have not reported reasonably comparable data for all three years listed
- 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 prior to July 1999. 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.
- 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) and
Herbst Humanities Program 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.
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 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 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. See examples of measures for additional details.
- Figures for small departments will be far more volatile than those
for groups with larger FTE.
2004-2005
- See the note above regarding the EXCLUSION of Texas A&M from all years shown with 2004-05 analysis.
- 1990 CIP codes and 2000 CIP codes: Several institution submissions used 1990 CIP codes instead of 2000 CIP codes. In these instances
all observations were given 2000 CIP codes based on a crosswalk from 1990 codes or department name.
- Invalid 2000 CIP codes: Several institution submissions used invalid 2000 CIP codes. In these instances
all observations were given valid 2000 CIP codes based on the closest match between department name and a valid CIP code.
- English Composition: Moved the following programs to CU-Boulder's English composition program with CIP code 230401.
Rhetoric programs with CIP code 231001 at Iowa, UCLA and UC-Berkeley, creative writing, CIP code 230501, at Oregon,
English creative with CIP code 230501 at Iowa.
- Telecommunications. In 2001 and prior under no CU department. In 2002 and later interdisciplinary
telecommunications is a separate unit under engineering. When determining an
appropriate peer group the primary criteria is a program with an engineering focus.
The only AAU public institution in the 2004 analysis with an engineering based telecommunications program
is the University of Pittsburgh.
- Minnesota: Misclassified liberal arts with a CIP code of 249999 so assigned a valid CIP code of 240199 to these observations.
- Iowa State: Biochemistry observations had an invalid CIP code of 260200 so assigned these observations to a valid CIP code of 260202.
- North Carolina and Arizona used 1990 CIP codes for miscellaneous biology: Changed North Carolina nutrition sciences observations from 1990 CIP code 260609 to 2000 CIP code 301901,
Arizona biostatistics from 1990 CIP code 260615 to 2000 CIP code 261102, and Arizona bio research labs from 1990 CIP code 260699 to 2000 CIP code 269999.
- UC Irvine, Santa Barbara, Davis, and Los Angeles: Ecology had an invalid CIP code of 261319 so assigned a valid CIP code of 261399.
- Arizona: General science had an invalid CIP code of 400000 so changed the CIP code to 400101.
- Minnesota: CIP code and department name did not match. After review the University of Minnesota web pages changed the assigned CIP code from 450401, criminology, to 451101, sociology, to
match the department name.
- Indiana: Folklore had an invalid CIP code of 451301 so assigned these observation to a valid CIP code of 459999.
- Florida: Conversion to PeopleSoft human resource system might result in both FTE changes and how individuals are allocated to departments.
2003-2004
- See the note above regarding the addition of two new institutions, Texas A&M and SUNY - Stony Brook, to this analysis.
- 1990 CIP codes and 2000 CIP codes: Several institution submissions used 1990 CIP codes instead of 2000 CIP codes. In these instances
all observations were given 2000 CIP codes based either on data from prior submissions or department name.
- English Composition: Moved the following programs to CU-Boulder's English composition program with CIP code 230401.
Rhetoric programs with CIP code 231001 at Iowa, UCLA and UC-Berkeley, creative writing, CIP code 230501, at Oregon,
English creative with CIP code 230501 at UC Santa Barbara, and Michigan's English Language Institute program with CIP code
23999.
- Telecommunications. In 2001 and prior under no CU department. In 2002 and later interdisciplinary
telecommunications is a separate department under engineering. When determining an
appropriate peer group the primary criteria is a program with an engineering focus.
The only AAU public institution in the 2004 analysis with an engineering based telecommunications program
is the University of Pittsburgh.
2002-2003
- Michigan State: 2002 submission combines French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese languages under romance languages and literature but with a
CIP code, 160905, Spanish and Portuguese. Unable to allocate an appropriate number to French & Italian so
all observations left in Spanish & Portuguese. FTE = 27.
- Michigan: 2002 submission combines French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese languages under romance languages and literature but with a
CIP code. 160905, Spanish and Portuguese. Unable to allocate an appropriate number to French & Italian so
all observations left in Spanish & Portuguese. FTE = 23.
- Illinois: 2002 submission associates molecular and integrated biology with a CIP code, 260706, associated with
Biology - EPO: Moved to CIP code 260402, molecular biology.
- English Composition: Moved the following programs to CU-Boulder's English composition program with CIP code 230401.
Rhetoric programs with CIP code 231001 at Iowa and Berkeley, creative writing, CIP code 230501, at Oregon,
English creative with CIP code 230501 at UC Santa Barbara, and Michigan's ELI program with CIP code
23999.
- Michigan State: Geography observations assigned CIP code 040601, landscape architecture. Changed to CIP code 450701, geography.
- Virginia: Assigned history a CIP 2000 code of 540101 instead of CIP code 450801. Changed to match other history observations.
- Telecommunications. In 2001 and prior under no CU department. In 2002 and later interdisciplinary
telecommunications is a separate department under engineering. When determining an
appropriate peer group the primary criteria is a program with an engineering focus.
The only AAU public institution in the 2002 analysis with an engineering based telecommunications program
is the University of Pittsburgh. Texas A&M has a similar engineering-based program but is not in the analysis
due to the lack of data from the prior two year. Texas A&M will be in the 2003-2004 analysis.
2001-2002
- UC - Berkeley: Electrical engineering now has CIP code 141001 with 2001 and
earlier entries under 150301 - electrical engineering technology. Changed
2001 and earlier entries to 141001.
- UC Santa Barbara: In 2002 changed CIP code for performing art to 500101, visual and performing, and 500499,
design and applied art, from 500501, dramatic arts. The new CIP codes do not map to our department so
2002 FTE now in no department category.
- Maryland: 2002 submission combines all foreign languages under a general foreign language CIP code. 160101.
Prior years list entries for German/Slavic, French & Italian, Spanish & Portuguese and East Asian.
- Michigan State: Did not report economics in 2002. FTE = 34 in 2001.
Did not correct or seek reason from Michigan State regarding omission.
- Nebraska: In 2002 lists School of Natural Resources under CIP 030101, same as CU's environmental studies, with an FTE = 27.
Unable to locate similar entry in 2001 and earlier. Left 2002 entry in data.
- SUNY-Buffalo: Mechanical engineering under CIP code 141901 in 2002 and under 149999 in 2001 and earlier.
Changed 2001 and earlier to 141901.
- SUNY-Buffalo: Women studies from CIP code 050102, American studies, in 2002 to CIP code 050207, women studies.
Did the same for 2001 and earlier.
- SUNY-Buffalo: Dramatic and Theater Arts from CIP code 509999, visual and performing arts - other, in 2002 to CIP code 500501, drama/theater arts general.
Did the same for 2001 and earlier.
- Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences: Moved the following programs to CU-Boulder's APS program with CIP code 400301.
Arizona, Penn. State, UC Irvine and UCLA report similar program under CIP code 400703. Did the same for 2001 and earlier.
- Biology - MCD: Moved North Carolina and Michigan entries with department titles containing "Molecular" from
CIP code 260101, general biology, to CIP code 260402, molecular biology. Did the same for 2001 and earlier.
- English Composition: Moved the following programs to CU-Boulder's English composition program with CIP code 230401.
Rhetoric programs with CIP code 231001 at Iowa and Berkeley, creative writing, CIP code 230501, at Oregon,
English creative with CIP code 230501 at UC Santa Barbara, and Michigan's ELI program with CIP code
23999.
- Environmental Studies: Moved the following institutions with programs containing CIP code 030201, Natural Resources Management and Policy,
that mapped to no department to environmental studies with CIP code 030101.
UC Davis, UC Irvine UC Santa Barbara and Virginia. Moved Kansas's environmental program
with CIP code 30060, systems science and theory, to environmental studies. Did the same in 2001 and earlier.
- French & Italian: Moved UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara's French & Italian programs from CIP code 160999, romance languages other,
to CIP code 160901 due to department name. Did the same for 2001 and earlier.
- Telecommunications. In 2001 and prior under no CU department. In 2002 interdisciplinary
telecommunications is a separate department under engineering. When determining an
appropriate peer group the primary criteria is a program with an engineering focus.
The only AAU public institution in the 2002 analysis with an engineering based telecommunications program
is the University of Pittsburgh. Texas A&M has a similar engineering-based program but is not in the analysis
due to the lack of data from the prior two year. Texas A&M will be in the 2003-2004 analysis.
2000-2001
- University of Missouri: Due to concerns regarding data integrity at the
assistant professors level, all observation were dropped.
- University of North Carolina: A reporting change results in a reduction
in faculty FTE for the current AAUDE report. Future reports should continue
to reflect this more limited reporting definition used in 2000-2001.
- Ohio State University: No new hire FTE or salary data from the College
of Education due to unresolved data concerns.
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