Salary Equity Task Force

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

2. 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

3. 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)

4. 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

5. Gaussian (normal) Distribution

6. 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)

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

8. 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”

9. Percentage of Professors Outside 1 Standard Deviation

10. Percentage of Professors Outside 1 Standard Deviation More Examples:

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

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

13. 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

14. Academic administrators Percent of CUPA Peer Salary for Comparable Positions

15. Academic administrators Percent of CUPA Peer Salary for Comparable Positions

16. Other administrators Percent of CUPA Peer Salary for Comparable Positions

17. Percent of CUPA Peer Salary for Comparable Positions

18. 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

19. 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

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

21. Relative Cost Of Living: Denver CO vs. CUPA peers

22. 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.

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

24. 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

25. Questions and Comments: