What Is the Nature of The Distribution of Salary Raises Among the Faculty?
It is important that the average faculty member progresses well, compared to faculty elsewhere and compared to the Philadelphia area CPI. However very few faculty earn the average salary within their discipline. We are also concerned with the distribution of salaries among faculty. We examine the distribution of salaries against two criteriathe equality of the distribution, and the proportion of the faculty whose raises match the increase in CPI. Unequal salaries have many causes (rank, longevity, market demands across fields and subfields, productivity), some of which will be seen as legitimate. Thus the fact of inequality does not define the presence of inequity. Nonetheless, the discussion of whether inequity is present needs to begin with the facts of inequality. Our first measure of inequality compares the ratio of total salaries which are earned by the top one-fifth of the faculty and the bottom one fifth of the faculty. To decrease the effects of disciplinary differences all com
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