UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN - SPECIAL SECTION
Thursday, April 20, 1995
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New, long-time professors make comparable salaries
Salary compression doesn't account for years worked at KU
By Lulsa Flores Kansan staff writer
Robert Nunley feels like he is being punished for being at the University of Kansas for 33 years.
Salary compression, the term for the small difference between the salary of long-time professors and recently hired professors, isn't some abstract concept for Robert Nunley. It is a monthly fact that shows up in his paycheck.
Nunley, professor of geography,
began working for the University
of Kansas in 1962. Nunley's current
salary is $43,785. His colleague,
Peter Herlihy, assistant professor
of geography, began working at KU
in 1993. His salary is $41,000.
Nunley makes only $2,785 more per
year than Herlihy.
Herlihy was a tenured associate professor at South Eastern Louisiana State University when he transferred to KU in 1993. So despite his newcomer status at KU, he obtained a salary close to that of associate professors who have been here longer.
Thus, a professor who has been at the University for 33 years and a professor who has been here for 2 years make virtually the same amount of money.
"I do feel that professors who have been here for many years should not be making less than 10 percent more than young professors at the same department," Nunley said.
Nunley's problem is not a new one. Each year, professors' salaries are increased because of inflation and the cost of living. Meanwhile, small salary increases keep veteran KU professors such as Nunley from gaining much ground.
While some KU administrators dismiss the issue, others see it as a major problem.
For Jack Fincham, dean of pharmacy, salary compression is a main concern. He said that professors
who were hired a long time ago have not been able to get the salary increases that are equitable in the market.
For instance, Howard Rytting, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, who started at KU in 1969, has a salary of $59,275. Kenneth Audus, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, who began in 1986, has a salary of $53,135.
Rytting said he considered making a move to another university where his salary would have been doubled. But he decided to stay for personal and academic reasons.
Joseph Bauman, dean of business, said the high inflation of the late '70s and early '80s led to salary compression.
Now, Bauman said, the faculty of the School of Business are very well paid, and salary compression has disappeared.
"This is a system that recognizes individual differences," he said. "If you look at all business schools, for instance, the faculty's salary ranges nationally from $32,000 a year to $185,000."
Bauman said the years when the professors were hired didn't matter but that the individual fields did. Accounting professors have higher salaries than business professors.
"We have a huge range of salaries in the school, but it doesn't mean that there is salary compression. That means that we are trying to pay for individual performance."
So, despite the fact that Gordon Fitch, professor of business, who has worked at KU since 1967, has a salary of $70,000, and Charles Coate, assistant professor of business, who teaches accounting and has worked at KU since 1992, has a salary of $65,233. Bauman would not call that compression.
David Shulenburger, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said he wished that the Kansas Legislature would provide more money to senior professors as a reward for their accomplishments.
Salary compression is the term to explain the sometimes occurrence of younger, less-tenured faculty members having a salary close to that of older, senior faculty members. The University of Kansas administration has requested an "exceptional merit pool" from the Kansas Legislature to reward senior faculty members, but as of now, neither Gov. Bill Graves nor the Legislature has acted on the request.
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Shulenburger said that the University tried to solve this problem by asking the Legislature to appropriate a half million dollars for an "exceptional merit pool" fund.
to do so," he said. "They have not chosen wisely."
"What we intended to do is to give proportional raises to selected senior faculty members whose accomplishments we have not been able to adequately reward with the salary increases available to us," he said.
Shulenburger said that the proposal was not likely to succeed. The University proposed it to the Board of Regents a year ago. While the Regents accepted the proposal and recommended it to Gov. Bill Graves this year, Graves has not recommended the exceptional merit pool to the Legislature.
Herman Leon, professor of social welfare, was hired in 1971. His salary is $47,815. His colleague, Rosemary Chapin, assistant professor, has a salary of $44,617. She was hired by KU in 1989. Between them there is a difference in salary of $3,198.
For long-time professors, the problem remains unsolved.
Leon said that worthy professors had been penalized, in terms of low salaries in comparison with new professors' salaries, for having elected to remain at KU.
"If wisdom comes with age, then some of the wisest professors of all are receiving less than the state of Kansas ought to be paying them," he said.
KU wage gulf widens to fit televisions and automobiles
KU faculty salaries lag $6,896 behind peer institutions
By Paul Todd Kansan staff writer
The average KU faculty member came up short last year compared to faculty at peer schools. Short enough that the professor could have bought a new 70-inch Mitsubishi big-screen television or a 1990 Honda Civic with the difference.
According to information from the Board of Regents, the average KU faculty paycheck is quite a bit lower than the average of KU's peer schools, and the gap may be growing.
In fact, the University of Kansas has never been at or above the peer faculty salary average since the peer school system began in 1977
Faculty nine-month salaries at KU average $48,547, about $6,896 less than the peer school average before taxes, according to Regents figures.
KU's peer institutions are the University of Colorado, the university of Iowa, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Oregon and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Each year, KU's average faculty salary is compared as a percentage of the peer school average.
Last year KU's faculty salary budget was 87.5 percent of the peer average, which was $55,443, the lowest point since KU has been comparing its average against the peer school average. Even at its highest point, KU's average relative to peer schools was only 96.5 percent, and that was in 1980.
The six peer schools are in cities that share cost-of-living and tax burdens similar to Lawrence's.
Ray Hauke, director of planning and budget for the Regents, said a three-year program from 1989 through 1991 called the "Margin of Excellence" should have brought KU's average up to 95 percent of the peer school average. The state Legislature did not meet the financing goal of the program in two of the three years.
What our peers make The average KU professor makes almost $7,000 less than professors at KU's five peer schools.
Hauke said the "Margin of Excellence" program made some progress in bringing KU's average up, but larger-than-expected peer faculty salary increases and drops in state revenues hurt the program.
But, he said, the purpose is not to achieve an easier goal for the Legislature to meet.
He said the Regents proposed a plan last year to increase faculty salaries by using proposed tuition increases, but the program was not adopted by the Legislature.
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Now the Regents are re-analyzing the method in which they make peer comparisons and in which schools should be peers with KU, he said.
"Who they are has not been reassessed for 15 to 20 years," Hauke said.
Many departments within the University come close to their peer averages by department, but few meet or exceed them.
Geology professors' salaries,
however, are an exception. Full
geology professors at KU earn an
average of $70,194. The peer geology
professor average is only
$69,545.
Full English professors at KU are paid an average of $56,837, which is 97.7 percent of the peer school average for English professors. Business professors make 97.8 percent of the peer average.
David Shulenburger, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said achieving parity with peer schools was still an objective of the University but whether KU would come closer to parity depended on the Legislature's mood from year to year.
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
"That remains our objective, but it takes the Legislature to approve the funding," he said. "Last year they were supportive, but we don't know what this year's Legislature will do."
NAME TITLE TERM FTE 1990 SALARY 1994 SALARY 1996 SALARY 94-36% INCREASE 90-36% INCREASE
Ronald Ash Professor 9 1.00 $52,000 $61,090 $67,238 10.1 29.3
William Beedles Professor 9 1.00 $70,500 $78,392 $82,312 5.0 16.8
Henry Butler Professor 9 1.00 xx $90,000 $104,745 5.8 xx
Kenneth Cogger Professor 9 1.00 $62,000 $67,721 $71,107 5.0 14.7
H.G. Fitch Professor 9 1.00 $61,000 $66,667 $70,000 5.0 14.8
Ned Ford Professor 9 1.00 $70,500 $78,157 $93,615 19.8 32.8
Jack Gauntzith Professor 9 1.00 $54,000 $59,536 $62,183 5.0 15.8
John Gratzith Professor 9 1.00 $54,000 $59,914 $60,977 8.0 10.7
Steven Hillmer Professor 9 1.00 $63,000 $69,558 $73,036 5.0 15.9
Mark Hirschey Professor 9 1.00 $71,000 $82,264 $86,377 5.0 21.7
Douglas Houston Professor 9 1.00 $59,400 $61,154 $64,212 5.0 8.1
O.M. Joy Professor 9 1.00 $89,400 $90,075 $104,030 5.0 16.4
Dennis Karney Professor 9 1.00 $57,500 $64,179 $84,388 31.5 46.8
Paul Koch Professor 9 1.00 $83,000 $70,485 $76,102 8.0 20.8
Charles Krider Professor 9 1.00 $65,600 $68,807 $77,284 12.3 17.8
V.P. Lessig Professor 9 1.00 $70,000 $77,122 $80,978 5.0 15.7
Kenneth MacKenzie Professor 9 1.00 $77,900 $87,040 $81,395 5.0 17.3
Kendra Mackanan Professor 9 1.00 $64,000 $84,730 $71,244 10.1 6.44
George Pinches Professor 9 1.00 $71,000 $78,931 $107,878 36.7 51.9
Anthony Redwood Professor 9 1.00 $68,144 $72,718 $78,535 8.0 15.2
Harry Reitz Professor 9 1.00 $70,000 $70,815 $75,800 7.0 8.3
Timothy Shaftel Professor 9 1.00 $64,800 $98,731 $102,794 4.1 58.6
Prakash Shenoy Professor 9 1.00 $60,000 $72,806 $110,000 51.1 83.3
Lawrence Sherr Professor 9 1.00 $63,000 $72,212 $75,823 20.4
David Shulenburger Professor 12 1.00 $84,500 $102,000 $105,828 3.8 25.2
Surendra Singh Professor 9 1.00 $58,500 $67,146 $72,518 8.0 24.0
Rajendh Stivastava Professor 9 1.00 $65,000 $73,154 $76,182 5.0 18.2
Clyde Stoltzenberg Professor 9 1.00 $65,000 $85,900 $76,182 5.0 24.8
Douglas Whitman Professor 9 1.00 $52,500 $57,915 $60,811 5.0 15.8
Po-Lung Yu Professor 9 1.00 $82,600 $77,403 $80,913 4.5 -2.0
Bruce Bublitz Associate Professor 9 1.00 $70,950 $78,231 $84,489 8.0 19.1
John Charnes Associate Professor 9 1.00 xx xx $58,000 xx xx
Keith Chauvin Associate Professor 9 1.00 $44,300 $49,055 $53,992 10.1 21.9
Deepak Datta Associate Professor 9 1.00 $49,500 $56,056 $60,540 8.0 23.6
Michael Etredge Associate Professor 9 1.00 xx $70,000 $73,500 5.0 xx
John Garland Associate Professor 9 1.00 $57,750 $60,833 $63,875 5.0 10.6
James Guthrie Associate Professor 9 1.00 $44,000 $49,055 $53,992 10.1 22.7
Murray Levin Associate Professor 9 1.00 $40,000 $44,000 $50,715 5.0 15.3
Renate Mallaton Associate Professor 9 1.00 $48,500 $53,162 $58,512 10.1 20.6
Roy Plumlee Associate Professor 9 1.00 xx $68,441 $71,863 5.0 xx
Dennis Rosen Associate Professor 9 1.00 $60,516 $63,542 5.0 16.6
Daniel Spencer Associate Professor 9 1.00 $51,500 $56,771 $59,610 5.0 15.7
James Wegelein Associate Professor 9 1.00 $61,000 $67,268 $70,631 5.0 15.8
Charles Coate Assistant Professor 9 1.00 xx $63,333 $65,233 3.0 xx
Betsy Goss Assistant Professor 9 1.00 $53,500 $61,340 5.0 14.7
Kissan Joseph Assistant Professor 9 1.00 xx $58,000 $60,900 5.0 xx
Mary Kleinberg Assistant Professor 9 1.00 $45,000 $49,640 $52,120 5.0 15.8
Jerry Lewis Assistant Professor 12 1.00 $45,000 $49,145 $51,800 5.0 14.2
Banjay Malra Assistance Professor 9 1.00 $51,000 $50,701 $58,486 5.0 14.7
Catherine Schwoerer Assistant Professor 9 1.00 $44,000 $50,274 $54,296 8.0 23.4
Beverley Wilson Assistant Professor 9 1.00 $54,500 $61,735 $64,822 5.0 18.9
David Camden Program Assistant 12 1.00 xx $25,000 xx xx
Paul Kerber Computing Coordinator 12 1.00 $33,000 xx $37,649 xx xx
Valerie Renault Computing Coordinator 12 1.00 $24,800 xx $29,467 xx xx
FACULTY
Douglas Glasnapp John Poggio
NAME
NAME
Karen Gallagher
Jerry Bailley
John Poggi
Nick Haner
Nan Harper
Suzanne Collins
Judith Hills
Tuswmy Twombly
Karen Gallagher
Max Heim
James Hieslheim
Noville Hiner
Michael Imber
Matthyn Amy
Robert Gawry
George Crawford
Howard Ebmer
Sherrn Rice
NAME
NAME
Edward Heck
Sherry Borgers
James Lichtenberg
Gary Price
Diane Mckishok
Diane McDermott
Francis Desalvo
Sherie Surbaugh Barbara Phipps
NAME
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Nona Tolefleon
Marin Fine
Douglas Glasnap
Robert Harrington
Robert Hohn
E.P. Johnson
John Poggi
Nell Salkind
Nell Rosenman
Samuel Green
Steven Lee
Dick Tracy
Elizabeth Witt
NAME
NAME
Ronald Aust
NAME
Nita Sundye
Nita Bushman
Leion Capps
Thomas Erick
Philip McKnight
Philon McKnight
Ronald Aus
Valerie Janeesis
Paul Markham
Arlene Rodriguez
Alene Barry
Mary Hamilton
Mary Hamilton
Breck Marion
Diane Nielsen
Joseph O'Brien
Barbara Phipps
Steven Tripp
Steven White
Steven White
Flora Wyatt
NAME
CENTER FOR EDUCATION TESTING AND EVALUATION
TITLE TERM FTE 1900 SALARY 1994 SALARY 1995 SALARY
Co-director 9 1.00 $43,500 $50,306 $53,970
Co-director 9 1.00 $55,442 $62,263 $66,043
ADMINISTRATION
ADMINISTRATION
TITLE TERM FTE 1901 SALARY 1994 SALARY 1995 SALARY
Dean 12 1.00 xx xx $87,000
Associate Dean 9 1.00 $39,549 $44,983 $48,717
Associate Dean 9 1.00 $55,442 $62,263 $66,043
Assistant to the Dean 12 1.00 xx $28,776 $30,298
Administrative Assistant 12 0.75 xx xx $23,503
Acad. Admin. Assistant 12 1.00 $30,636 34,303 $35,608
Coordinator 12 1.00 xx $28,372 $29,529
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EDUCATION POLICY AND LEADERSHIP
| TITLE | TEHM | FTE | 1990 SALARY | 1994 SALARY | 1995 SALARY |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Associate Professor | 9 | 1.00 | $32,369 | $37,608 | $42,627 |
| Professor | 12 | 1.00 | xx | xx | $87,000 |
| Professor | 9 | 1.00 | xx | $59,804 | $62,560 |
| Professor | 9 | 1.00 | $42,470 | $46,854 | $49,065 |
| Professor | 9 | 1.00 | $52,802 | $62,468 | $62,779 |
| Professor | 9 | 1.00 | $36,318 | $41,539 | $44,439 |
| Associate Professor | 9 | 1.00 | $28,000 | $33,069 | $38,760 |
| Associate Professor | 9 | 1.00 | $28,499 | $34,983 | $46,717 |
| Associate Professor | 9 | 1.00 | $41,124 | $43,925 | $46,859 |
| Associate Professor | 9 | 1.00 | $51,303 | $57,364 | $60,234 |
| Assistant Professor | 9 | 1.00 | xx | xx | $34,213 |
ECONOMIC EDUCATION
COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY
TITLE TERM FTE 190 SALARY 1994 SALARY 1995 SALARY
Associate Director 12 1.00 xx $35,771 $36,904
Director 12 1.00 xx $44,633 $47,227
TITLE TERM FTE 1900 SALARY 1994 SALARY 1965 SALARY
Professor 9 1.00 $47,959 $45,877 $48,685
Professor 9 1.00 $41,585 $46,182 $49,175
Professor 9 1.00 $52,883 $49,300 $53,659
Professor 9 1.00 $47,089 $43,182 $45,496
Associate Professor 9 1.00 $37,693 $37,818 $39,592
Associate Professor 9 1.00 $39,075 $38,073 $40,327
Assistant Professor 12 1.00 xx $66,900 $69,449
EDUCATION PSYCHOLOGY AND RESEARCH
TITLE TERM FTE 1900 SALARY 1994 SALARY 1965 SALARY
Professor 9 1.00 $46,977 $53,763 $57,295
Professor 9 1.00 $50,818 $56,562 $59,762
Professor 9 1.00 $43,500 $50,306 $55,970
Professor 9 1.00 $40,413 $40,436
Professor 9 1.00 $39,685 $44,260 $46,915
Professor 9 1.00 $39,753 $43,929 $46,329
Professor 9 1.00 $55,442 $62,263 $66,043
Professor 9 1.00 $40,529 $44,826 $47,426
Associate Professor 9 1.00 $32,497 $36,716 $39,100
Associate Professor 9 1.00 xx $36,716 $39,468
Associate Professor 9 1.00 $31,490 $36,991 $39,432
Associate Professor 9 1.00 $38,089 $41,355 $43,355
Assistant Professor 9 1.00 xx $33,000 $34,900
INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY LAB
CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION
TITLE TERM FTE 1990 SALARY 1994 SALARY 1995 SALARY
Director 9 1.00 $30,311 $34,831 $36,910
| TITLE | TERM | FTE | 1900 SALARY | 1944 SALARY | 1955 SALARY |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Professor | 9 | 1.00 | $53,943 | $64,704 | $68,981 |
| Professor | 9 | 1.00 | $36,103 | $41,055 | $44,133 |
| Professor | 9 | 1.00 | $49,852 | $55,761 | $58,989 |
| Professor | 9 | 1.00 | $38,387 | $41,208 | $45,582 |
| Professor | 9 | 1.00 | $40,680 | $44,925 | $48,498 |
| Professor | 9 | 1.00 | xx | $44,338 | $46,434 |
| Associate Professor | 9 | 1.00 | $30,311 | $34,831 | $36,910 |
| Associate Professor | 9 | 1.00 | xx | $36,973 | $39,505 |
| Associate Professor | 9 | 1.00 | xx | $36,825 | $38,979 |
| Associate Professor | 9 | 1.00 | $34,203 | $38,544 | $41,994 |
| Assistant Professor | 9 | 1.00 | xx | $30,648 | $32,710 |
| Assistant Professor | 9 | 1.00 | xx | $33,684 | $36,294 |
| Assistant Professor | 9 | 1.00 | $27,000 | $32,113 | $32,149 |
| Assistant Professor | 12 | 1.00 | $50,542 | $56,009 | $57,983 |
| Assistant Professor | 9 | 1.00 | xx | $31,763 | $34,129 |
| Assistant Professor | 9 | 1.00 | xx | $31,859 | $34,001 |
| Assistant Professor | 12 | 1.00 | xx | $44,633 | $47,227 |
| Assistant Professor | 9 | 1.00 | $29,301 | $32,579 | $34,017 |
| Assistant Professor | 9 | 1.00 | xx | $31,000 | $32,813 |
| Acting Assistant Professor | 9 | 1.00 | xx | xx | $30,000 |
| Acting Assistant Professor | 9 | 1.00 | $30,770 | $34,323 | $36,675 |
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RECREATION SUPERVISION
TITLE TERIM FTE 1990 SALARY 1994 SALARY 1995 SALARY 94-56% INCREASE 90-56% INCREASE
Director 12 1.00 $30,380 $33,794 $34,896 3.3 14.9
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