Salary Equity Task Force Update to the Faculty Senate - K. Sahami, M. Mocanasu and M. Ketterer April 23rd 2014

Salary Equity Task Force Created Fall of 2013 Charged with looking at where MSU Denver salaries – stand with respect to peer institutions – stand with respect to stated goals – Stand relative to cost of living norms

FS Salary Equity Task Force members: – Dr. Cynthia Church (Biology) – Sen. Juan Dempere (Finance) – Sen. Adam Graves (Philosophy) – Sen. Clare Hay (AES) – Dr. Michael Ketterer (Chemistry, Chair) – Sen. Jeff London (CJC, CFAC) – Dr. Jean Lundy (CAS) – Sen. Mona Mocansu (Mathematics) – Dr. Nhu Nguyen (HPS) – Sen. Lisa Ortiz (Technical Communication) – Sen. Julie Reyes (SOAN) – Sen. Sheila Rucki (Political Science) – Sen. Kamran Sahami (Physics) – Prof. Cynthia Vannucci (HTL) – Sen. Jacob Welch (Theater)

Background Stated Goal for our faculty salaries to be within 15% of mean colleagues salaries at peer institutions Salaries floor systematically set 85% of CUPA mean salary ISSUE: WITHIN vs. OF

Gaussian (normal) Distribution

Good approximation to 15% clustering around mean Being within 15% of mean value What we do is reduce by 15% of the mean (Salary floor at 85% of X)

Example: Heights of US Middle Aged Males (2010) Average American male 5’9.8’’ –(5’10”) Standard Deviation 2.8” –( 3”)

Example: Heights of US Middle Aged Males (2010) To be within of 5’10” would be within range 5’11.5” to 5’8.5” tall To be 85% of 5’10” is to be 4’11”

Percentage of Professors Outside 1 Standard Deviation

More Examples:

Associate Median Comparison, For the 6 departments sampled above, here is a comparison between median salaries at MSU Denver and the CUPA Median

Full Median Comparison, For the 6 departments sampled above, here is a comparison between median salaries at MSU Denver and the CUPA Median

Administrator Salaries vs. CUPA Academic administrators: senior institutional officers, academic Deans, directors and managers of Centers, Associate and Assistant Deans Other administrative personnel: academic affairs, student affairs, institutional affairs, fiscal affairs, external affairs, IT, athletics, AA/EO, and facilities

Academic administrators Percent of CUPA Peer Salary for Comparable Positions

Academic administrators Percent of CUPA Peer Salary for Comparable Positions

Other administrators Percent of CUPA Peer Salary for Comparable Positions

Administrator Salaries vs. CUPA Majority of salaries are less than the CUPA averages, but most are at the 90% level or better Numerous examples of positions paid at well above the CUPA peer average salaries

An anecdotal comparison - Deans SLAS Dean: $134,885 vs. CUPA average of $152,751, maximum of $203,004 for Arts and Letters; similar numbers for Arts and Sciences or Sciences Deans Associate Deans – improvement needed

An anecdotal comparison - Deans School of Business Dean: $171,666 vs. CUPA average of $189,661, maximum of $335,000

Relative Cost Of Living: Denver CO vs. CUPA peers

Cost of Living data from US Bureau of Labor Statistics and C2ER (Council for Community and Economic Research) Normed for $50,000 in Denver CO.

Relative Cost Of Living: Denver CO vs. CUPA peers Average : 7.86% Median : 9.11%

Conclusions (so far) MSU Denver Faculty appear to be systematically underpaid relative to CUPA peers (10-15%) MSU Denver Faculty appear to be systematically underpaid relative to MSU Denver Administrators Cost of Living adjustment for Denver relative CUPA mean (7.9%) Task Force will complete a report to the MSU Denver Community

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