Leaving Academe

[mleok]

... we are an outlier when it comes to faculty salary, because other comparative universities in the region presumably pay better.

How do you know you're an outlier when it comes to faculty salaries if you have to presume other comparable university in the region pay better? In particular, salaries at public universities like Clemson, UNC, Alabama are publicly available, so it would be a simple task to check.

[RatGuy]

... we are an outlier when it comes to faculty salary, because other comparative universities in the region presumably pay better.

How do you know you're an outlier when it comes to faculty salaries if you have to presume other comparable university in the region pay better? In particular, salaries at public universities like Clemson, UNC, Alabama are publicly available, so it would be a simple task to check.

I'm not on the committee spearheading the faculty salary increase proposal, so I don't know offhand those numbers. (without, as you say, looking them up myself). I do know some of their bigger conclusions. For example, my salary accounts for 7% of the tuition generated by my students over the course of the 2021-22 year. My analogue at our biggest in-state rival has a salary that is 17% of tuition generated (4/4 teaching load, same course caps). The neighboring open-admission compass university is somewhere in between. I do know that the committee dropped LSU from the report because NTT faculty there get paid even less.