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Update: UO salaries *fall*. Raises to get to AAU peers shown.

7/22/2013 update: Some fodder for the UO Trustees counter-proposal on raises to be presented Tuesday. IR should have new salary data from the AAU data exchange soon, but the sharing agreement says it can’t be posted on the web. 

4/8/2013 update: The AAUP released its latest salary report, showing average faculty salaries at public universities increased 1.3% over last year.

Here at UO salaries for full and instructors increased about that much, but pay for associates and assistant professors actually decreased, according to the data reported by UO to the AAUP. Page down to see how far behind our AAU comparators you are, by department and rank.

2011-12:




2012-13:


3/17/2013. The administration has proposed 5.05% average raises for the faculty through the 2013-14 AY.

This table comes from the data on the UO IR website and shows what percentage raises would be needed, by department and rank, just to get faculty to where the AAU comparators were back in 2010. Add another 5% or so to account for increases at the comparators since 2010, and as the comments note you might want to knock off a bit for fulls hired before 1996, on account of their PERS tier 1 deal, if you think they can keep it.

I’ve put the departments that are at or above median in the NRC rankings in bold. I apologize for the lack of data on instructors, I don’t have a good source.

Department Rank Oregon
average
2012-13
AAU
comparators 2010-11
Increase 
needed
to get to
2010 AAU
AAA Architecture & Interior Arch Full $97,221 $112,600 16%
AAA Architecture & Interior Arch Assoc $75,812 $83,600 10%
AAA Architecture & Interior Arch Asst $65,333 $68,400 5%
AAA Art History Full $102,163 $118,300 16%
AAA Art History Assoc $67,045 $75,400 12%
AAA Art History Asst $57,500 $63,800 11%
AAA Arts & Administration Assoc $76,981
AAA Arts & Administration Asst $54,522
AAA Department of Art Full $91,213 $94,900 4%
AAA Department of Art Assoc $65,491 $73,200 12%
AAA Department of Art Asst $57,429 $60,200 5%
AAA Landscape Architecture Full $99,735
AAA Landscape Architecture Assoc $71,851 $78,100 9%
AAA Landscape Architecture Asst $70,000 $58,700 -16%
AAA Planning, Public Policy and Mgt Full $95,724 $132,700 39%
AAA Planning, Public Policy and Mgt Assoc $71,900 $94,100 31%
AAA Planning, Public Policy and Mgt Asst $73,500 $79,800 9%
Business, College of Full $150,417 $200,000 33%
Business, College of Assoc $146,752 $156,900 7%
Business, College of Asst $144,115 $148,400 3%
CAS Anthropology Full $103,974 $111,000 7%
CAS Anthropology Assoc $70,360 $76,400 9%
CAS Anthropology Asst $63,153 $63,900 1%
CAS Asian Studies Full
$112,400
CAS Asian Studies Assoc
$74,800
CAS Asian Studies Asst $67,535 $65,500 -3%
CAS Biology Full $99,812 $119,200 19%
CAS Biology Assoc $78,336 $82,200 5%
CAS Biology Asst $72,067 $71,400 -1%
CAS CIS Computer  Full $110,810 $128,900 16%
CAS CIS Computer  Assoc $90,892 $102,000 12%
CAS CIS Computer  Asst $87,133 $91,100 5%
CAS Chemistry Full $104,626 $140,400 34%
CAS Chemistry Assoc $79,394 $92,900 17%
CAS Chemistry Asst $67,643 $77,700 15%
CAS Classics Full $88,508 $110,400 25%
CAS Classics Assoc $68,337 $75,900 11%
CAS Classics Asst $56,000 $59,100 6%
CAS Comp Lit Program Full $86,677 $98,500 14%
CAS Comp Lit Program Assoc $63,951 $67,300 5%
CAS Comp Lit Program Asst $57,100 $60,100 5%
CAS Creative Writing Full $107,866 $104,900 -3%
CAS Creative Writing Assoc $76,539 $67,800 -11%
CAS Creative Writing Asst $64,000 $58,100 -9%
CAS East Asian Language Literature Full $74,900 $109,400 46%
CAS East Asian Language Literature Assoc $68,535 $72,500 6%
CAS East Asian Language Literature Asst $59,264 $62,400 5%
CAS Economics Full $132,062 $167,500 27%
CAS Economics Assoc $106,164 $112,500 6%
CAS Economics Asst $97,458 $102,600 5%
CAS English Full $94,934 $112,500 19%
CAS English Assoc $68,090 $76,000 12%
CAS English Asst $57,576 $62,800 9%
CAS Ethnic Studies Full $98,294 $112,400 14%
CAS Ethnic Studies Assoc $80,571 $74,800 -7%
CAS Ethnic Studies Asst $61,000 $65,500 7%
CAS Geography Full $120,549 $126,000 5%
CAS Geography Assoc $76,539 $82,300 8%
CAS Geography Asst $67,157 $65,700 -2%
CAS Geological Science Full $91,998 $119,400 30%
CAS Geological Science Assoc $73,994 $79,300 7%
CAS Geological Science Asst $69,522 $72,000 4%
CAS German and Scandinavian Full $88,549 $98,300 11%
CAS German and Scandinavian Assoc $65,200 $74,000 13%
CAS German and Scandinavian Asst $57,500 $58,200 1%
CAS History Full $102,737 $115,500 12%
CAS History Assoc $70,979 $77,600 9%
CAS History Asst $61,229 $61,900 1%
CAS Human Physiology HPHY Full $110,700
CAS Human Physiology HPHY Assoc $84,700
CAS Human Physiology HPHY Asst $70,444 $70,300 0%
CAS Int’l Studies Full $122,500
CAS Int’l Studies Assoc $65,379 $76,500 17%
CAS Int’l Studies Asst $67,493 $67,300 0%
CAS Mathematics Full $99,437 $120,400 21%
CAS Mathematics Assoc $77,459 $84,600 9%
CAS Mathematics Asst $63,117 $76,700 22%
CAS Philosophy Full $111,271 $125,000 12%
CAS Philosophy Assoc $62,062 $78,500 26%
CAS Philosophy Asst $60,634 $67,000 10%
CAS Physics Full $99,534 $122,200 23%
CAS Physics Assoc $79,789 $88,300 11%
CAS Physics Asst $68,168 $77,100 13%
CAS Political Science Full $108,907 $139,400 28%
CAS Political Science Assoc $79,168 $83,400 5%
CAS Political Science Asst $69,222 $72,400 5%
CAS Psychology Full $113,208 $130,200 15%
CAS Psychology Assoc $76,755 $82,500 7%
CAS Psychology Asst $70,954 $72,100 2%
CAS Religious Studies Full $91,088 $108,600 19%
CAS Religious Studies Assoc $65,587 $72,500 11%
CAS Religious Studies Asst $60,367 $60,900 1%
CAS Romance Languages Full $89,021 $99,200 11%
CAS Romance Languages Assoc $66,938 $72,300 8%
CAS Romance Languages Asst $54,946 $61,100 11%
CAS Sociology Full $108,269 $124,700 15%
CAS Sociology Assoc $76,611 $84,100 10%
CAS Sociology Asst $70,340 $72,100 3%
CAS Theatre Arts Full $86,694 $99,600 15%
CAS Theatre Arts Assoc $60,763 $67,800 12%
CAS Theatre Arts Asst $54,696 $58,100 6%
CAS Women’s Studies Full $81,041 $110,600 36%
CAS Women’s Studies Assoc $76,396 $78,900 3%
CAS Women’s Studies Asst $53,000 $62,000 17%
ED Education Studies Full $103,000 $111,700 8%
ED Education Studies Assoc $81,250 $81,500 0%
ED Education Studies Asst $68,000 $68,400 1%
Ed Methodology, Policy & L Full $110,000 $108,400 -1%
Ed Methodology, Policy & L Assoc $114,251 $68,900 -40%
Ed Methodology, Policy & L Asst $70,000 $62,300 -11%
Ed Special Education Full $117,000
Ed Special Education Assoc $80,333 $81,600 2%
Ed Special Education Asst $70,000 $68,400 -2%
Journalism & Communicatn, School of Full $102,092 $124,100 22%
Journalism &Communicatn, School of Assoc $73,561 $78,400 7%
Journalism & Communicatn, School of Asst $62,472 $65,800 5%
Law, School of Full $139,257 $196,900 41%
Law, School of Assoc $125,584 $133,600 6%
Law, School of Asst $105,333 $133,600 27%
SOMD Dance Full $62,561 $87,500 40%
SOMD Dance Assoc $59,000 $68,100 15%
SOMD Dance Asst $47,750 $59,200 24%
SOMD Music Full $80,651 $101,900 26%
SOMD Music Assoc $60,559 $73,300 21%
SOMD Music Asst $53,889 $58,500 9%
Environmental Studies Full
$135,800
Environmental Studies Assoc
$81,900
Environmental Studies Asst
$60,100

14 Comments

  1. Awesome0 03/17/2013

    This is of course to get 2010 levels. Now three years beyond that and with states unfreezing salaries, and one would probably need to add 5 to 7 percent to all academic ranks to adjust for COLA adjustments our comparators are receiving.

  2. Anonymous 03/18/2013

    Ed is doing OK.

  3. Anonymous 03/18/2013

    If it really mattered, we’d be seeing a mass exodus from the University. As it stands the ratio of graduates to open faculty positions is so great that UO doesn’t need to pay their faculty well. If faculty left, where would they go? Who cares about the quality of the research and instruction? Certainly no the administration or the state. Students aren’t coming here for that anyway. Internationally we have a reputation as the place to send your stupid kids to because we gave up on standards in favor of out-of-state and international tuition dollars.

    • Anonymous 03/18/2013

      Out out-of-state students are better on entry and outperform our residents while here.

    • Anonymous 03/18/2013

      “If it really mattered”

      It’s amazing how short-sighted your statement is. Continuing on with salaries that can’t compete is a perfect way to reduce our ability to stay in the AAU and maintain the various clusters of excellence that have been built on this campus. Your logic simply presumes that because there are unemployed PhDs out there, that we can maintain a “faculty on the cheap” strategy. But you are seemingly unconcerned about the loss of truly excellent faculty, and the failure to recruit excellent new faculty. You’re a bean counter of the worst kind.

      Excellent faculty have a lot of choices, and they do not have to stay at institutions that embrace your path to mediocrity.

    • Anonymous 03/18/2013

      I’m not speaking to how things ought to be, I’m addressing how they are.

      If UO admins and the state don’t care about quality, which I posit they do not, then by all means the good faculty should go somewhere that their work is appreciated. That they aren’t leaving in droves implicitly gives the administration a pass on their bad behavior.

      We’re quickly becoming a community college with a multi-million-dollar athletics marketing program. Sadly, it’s what the administration and the state wants. Go ducks, as the kids like to say.

    • Anonymous 03/18/2013

      I don’t know about “leaving in droves” but Espy has certainly driven away some good ones, and screwed up at least 2 searches for replacements.

  4. Anonymous 03/18/2013

    Sure I’m paid 25% less than my peers. But don’t forget the luxurious office in PLC, and our exclusive faculty club.

    • Three-Toed Sloth 07/30/2013

      I would need a 50% increase to reach the AAU average in my rank/discipline. But my office is nice.

  5. downhillfast 04/08/2013

    Our administrators: Is anyone looking out for our administrators? Their increases: Are they enough to keep up?

  6. faculty skeptic 04/08/2013

    Why does the AAUP report UO has a 23-1 student-faculty ratio, when US News says it’s 20-1?

  7. COALEMOS 04/09/2013

    UO website (http://admissions.uoregon.edu/profile.html) says 20:1 but it’s a meaningless number either way. It’s a “teacher” to student ratio which I believe means they count everybody (adjunct, GTF, NTTF, TTF). It sounds good to prospective students because that is the phrase they use in high schools but it ignores the rising reliance on part-time adjuncts to teach classes, which wouldn’t necessarily affect the ratio.

  8. Anonymous 07/30/2013

    What’s this about retiring faculty getting an “automatic raise” when they file to retire in three years, thus padding their salary and pushing up their PERS payments? Of course, they are not “guaranteed” that “raise” when they work post-retirement part time, poor things.

    Of course, the shoveling of $ on retiring faculty is not as extreme as the shoveling $ on retiring high level administrators.

    Of course, the shoveling of $ on retiring classified staff and low level officers of administrator is nonexistent.

    Pfft.

  9. Anonymous 08/04/2013

    Personally, I get payed for my teaching/research in peanuts and bananas. Soooo depressing. Remind me again why we are NOT striking over this?

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