Raises for Promotion - Average Percentage at Your School?

[artalot]

Ours is 5K for Associate and 10K for full. We get no cost of living raises, just merit-based raises (which basically means you have to cozy up to the chair, the dean and the provost). I'm at a private LAC.

[Mobius]

There is a set rate that the dean's have, but most get more than that to address salary compression. Usually around a 10% bump to associate. Bump for promotion to full is around 12% based on what I've come across when new salaries are published in meeting agendas for the university board.

[Sun_Worshiper]

When one receives such a promotion, does it also usually include some increase or changed sort of work responsibilities?

More committee work is expected, while also continuing to be a productive researcher and solid teacher.

On a more informal level, there is less protection from various requests. This can be nice if I want to do some overload teaching, but can also be burdensome.

[clean]

we have a flat fee approach.
Assistant to Assoc is $5000
Assoc to prof is 7000.

We do have a post tenure review process (PTR) too that is supposed to control salary inversion.
Every 5 years you have to be reviewed (or promoted).  If you are a professor, then there is a $5000 bump if you successfully complete PTR.  If associate, and you do not go up for promotion, then the bump is $2500. 

(News from today's president's meeting is no raises this year... so we are getting farther and farther behind .... In real terms (inflation adjusted) my salary is lower now, even after 2 promotions and 1 PTR adjustment than when I was first hired as an assistant professor! 

It is getting easier and easier to think about retirement as I am giving up less and less every year!

[onthefringe]

10% at each promotion. Departments have to give whatever the maximum possible raise that year is (generally 3-4%) and the rest it matched from the central administration

[EdnaMode]

My institution is currently at 4% for each promotion level. Annual raises have only been around 1-2%, and some years, no raises. There has been discussion about changing the promotion raises to 8% but no one is quite sure where the money would come from or what would be done about salary compression, equity, etc. It's been discussed before and nothing has come of it so I think we're stuck at 4% unless something drastic changes.

[Kron3007]

Ours is a flat rate of $2400 CAD to associate and $4000 CAD for full.  I feel we are fairly well paid and get regular COL and annual career raises, so this is very little incentive or reward for promotion.  I applied for full this year, but this definitely seems on the low side and I may still make less than many associate profs even after promotion.

 

 

[Vkw10]

Flat rate of $3000 per promotion in the non-tenure track ladder and $4500 in the tenure track ladder. When you reach top of your ladder, you can start applying for incentive reviews after five years in rank. Last time I heard, about 5% of full professors apply for incentive review when eligible.

[mythbuster]

12.5% of your annual salary. Which sounds great compared to these others. However, I bet you all get regular COLAs. We wish we did.

[Ruralguy]

You say "I bet you all get regular COLAs," but its at least clear from responses (if not then from everyone who read this) that many of us, including me, do not get regular COLAs (though we sometimes do). Also, our promotion bumps are nothing like 12.5%.

[Kron3007]

12.5% of your annual salary. Which sounds great compared to these others. However, I bet you all get regular COLAs. We wish we did.

Yes, we have crappy promotion bumps but do get regular COLAs, which is much better.  My only real gripe is that our raises etc. are almost entirely seniority based.  There are really no merit-based raises.  Nice if you want to put your feet up I guess. 

[pgher]

12.5% of your annual salary. Which sounds great compared to these others. However, I bet you all get regular COLAs. We wish we did.

Yes, we have crappy promotion bumps but do get regular COLAs, which is much better.  My only real gripe is that our raises etc. are almost entirely seniority based.  There are really no merit-based raises.  Nice if you want to put your feet up I guess. 

We are prohibited from giving COLAs and must only give merit raises. Which is fine for most people, but a recipe for salary compression and inversion.

[Sun_Worshiper]

I got an 8% bump with tenure. Not bad but lower than I had hoped/expected. 

But overall my university is pretty generous. Salaries are quite high and we get a raise every year (except during a covid freeze). Raises are supposedly for performance as well as CoL and potentially some other factors like compression. They range from very generous (~10%) to rather modest (~$2.5%). There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to it - sometimes my performance is great and the raise is mediocre, other times my performance is mediocre and the raise is great.