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Higher salaries place Brandeis in more competitive position
by Miranda Neubauer
Senior Writer
News | 10/16/07
Posted online at 8:54 PM EST on 10/15/07
/ Last updated at 4:50 AM EST on 10/15/07
The University's three-year catch-up plan for increases in faculty salaries led to a record faculty recruitment year, as Brandeis lost only two prospective professors to other schools, Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe said.
In the previous three years, there were between four and seven professors who rejected job offers from Brandeis for faculty positions elsewhere, Jaffe said.
"With the offers that we were making, we were able to get almost everybody who we wanted," Jaffe said.
Seven professors left Brandeis after the 2003 to 2004 academic year, and eight left after '05 to '06, not including retirements or faculty members who weren't reappointed, Jaffe said.
"In some sense [losing a few faculty members] is a sign that we're [in] a good place, that other places want to hire our faculty," he said.
The Board of Trustees approved the catch-up plan in 2004 to bring faculty salaries more in line with median compensation in the Association of American Universities' 60 member institutions by the fiscal year of 2007.
The plan included a series of three raises. The average salary for Brandeis professors was $99,000 for the 2004 to 2005 academic year, $106,000 for '05 to '06 and $111,000 for '06 to '07, according to information provided by Jaffe.
The AAU won't release data on faculty salaries for this academic year until the end of the summer, Jaffe said.
For the current fiscal year, Jaffe said that the Board of Trustees had approved a salary increase of 4.2 percent, in addition to extra funds, as part of the catch-up plan.
"Based on the data that we do have [from last year], it would appear that overall, we have approximately met that goal of the median of the arts and sciences AAU schools," Jaffe said.
While Brandeis still lags behind the AAU median with regard to the salary of full professors, the University has become more competitive in its compensation of assistant professors, Jaffe said. Brandeis paid its assistant professors an average of $67,000 in 2006 to 2007, compared with an AAU median of $66,000. The University's $111,000 average for full professors, however is still slightly below the AAU median of $112, 000. In 2004, the AAU median was $104, 000 compared to the University's $99,000.
In the previous three years, there were between four and seven professors who rejected job offers from Brandeis for faculty positions elsewhere, Jaffe said.
"With the offers that we were making, we were able to get almost everybody who we wanted," Jaffe said.
Seven professors left Brandeis after the 2003 to 2004 academic year, and eight left after '05 to '06, not including retirements or faculty members who weren't reappointed, Jaffe said.
"In some sense [losing a few faculty members] is a sign that we're [in] a good place, that other places want to hire our faculty," he said.
The Board of Trustees approved the catch-up plan in 2004 to bring faculty salaries more in line with median compensation in the Association of American Universities' 60 member institutions by the fiscal year of 2007.
The plan included a series of three raises. The average salary for Brandeis professors was $99,000 for the 2004 to 2005 academic year, $106,000 for '05 to '06 and $111,000 for '06 to '07, according to information provided by Jaffe.
The AAU won't release data on faculty salaries for this academic year until the end of the summer, Jaffe said.
For the current fiscal year, Jaffe said that the Board of Trustees had approved a salary increase of 4.2 percent, in addition to extra funds, as part of the catch-up plan.
"Based on the data that we do have [from last year], it would appear that overall, we have approximately met that goal of the median of the arts and sciences AAU schools," Jaffe said.
While Brandeis still lags behind the AAU median with regard to the salary of full professors, the University has become more competitive in its compensation of assistant professors, Jaffe said. Brandeis paid its assistant professors an average of $67,000 in 2006 to 2007, compared with an AAU median of $66,000. The University's $111,000 average for full professors, however is still slightly below the AAU median of $112, 000. In 2004, the AAU median was $104, 000 compared to the University's $99,000.
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