UNF Faculty Association

Information Item # 3: Submitted by the Budget Advisory Committee

Average Faculty Salaries versus Average Administrator Salaries
1999-2000 through 2008-2009

Based on the May 2009 document titled “How Has UNF Invested Its Money? Expenditures on Faculty and Administration”, we perform some calculations to evaluate the growth of the average Faculty salary compared to both the average Administrator and average Chairperson’s salary growth. We supplemented the May 2009 document with information for the Chairs and Directors’ salaries for the same time period to isolate both the chairs’ and faculty salaries paid by the university (which was not possible directly from the May 2009 document).

Graph 1 and Table 1 show that in 1999-2000 the average Faculty salary was 48,139 dollars, while the average Administrator salary was 95,897. By 2008-2009 the average Faculty salary was 70,333, while the average administrator salary was 136,358. While in 1999-2000 the ratio of average administrator to faculty salary was 1.99, by 2008-2009 this ratio increased to 2.21. If we compare the average Faculty salary with the Chairs and Directors’ salaries, the ratio was 1.46 in 1999-2000, and it increased to 1.77 in 2008-2009. Graph 1 shows the evolution of the average salaries for these three categories, while table 1 shows the numbers and respective calculations.

Graph 1

Table 1

	1999-2000	2000-2001	2001-2002	2002-2003	2003-2004	2004-2005	2005-2006	2006-2007	2007-2008	2008-2009
Student FTE	6,966	7,330	7,940	8,302	8,577	9,144	9,616	10,154	10,548	9,978
Faculty FTE	396	406	421	432	440	467	493	521	553	529
Stud/Fac Ratio	18	18	19	19	19	20	20	19	19	19
Administrator FTE	30	28	29	27	26	29	32	40	41	37
Student/Adm Ratio	232	262	274	307	330	315	301	254	257	270
Chairs and Directors	32	32	36	32	34	35	36	37	41	42

Faculty Salaries (Includes Chairs)	21,309,098	23,062,080	24,007,977	25,537,173	29,031,043	28,877,506	30,004,330	35,316,680	38,101,740	37,206,419
Administrator Salaries	2,876,913	2,763,465	2,870,275	2,724,341	2,881,075	3,410,315	4,003,090	5,135,631	5,434,078	5,045,251
Chairs and Directors Salaries	2,246,201	2,341,580	2,700,530	2,436,953	2,770,539	3,134,924	3,325,090	4,000,698	4,262,483	4,577,119
Faculty Salaries	19,062,897	20,720,499	21,307,447	23,100,220	26,260,504	25,742,582	26,679,240	31,315,982	33839257	32629300

Fac Av. Salary	48,139	51,036	50,612	53,473	59,683	55,123	54,116	60,107	61192	61681
Administ. Av. Salary	95,897	98,695	98,975	100,902	110,811	117,597	125,097	128,391	132538	136358
Chairs Salary	70,194	73,174	75,015	76,155	81,486	89,569	92,364	108,127	103963	108979

Ratio Administ/Faculty Salary	1.99	1.93	1.96	1.89	1.86	2.13	2.31	2.14	2.17	2.21
Ratio Chairs/Faculty Salary	1.46	1.43	1.48	1.42	1.37	1.62	1.71	1.80	1.70	1.77

Source: Own elaboration based on How Has UNF Invested Its Money? Report, May 2009

What is even more revealing is the increase of average Faculty salary compared to the average Administrator salary. From the academic year 2003/2004 to the academic year 2008-2009 the average Faculty salary increased 3.3%, or an annualized rate of 0.66%. This annual growth rate is much lower than the average annual inflation rate of 3.69%. On the other hand, the average Administrator salary increased 23.1%, or an annualized rate of 4.24%, while Chairs’ average salary increased 33.7%, or an annualized rate of 5.99%. That means that, for this period, the average Administrator salary increased 6.88 times the average Faculty salary increase, and the average Chairs’ salary growth rate was 10.08 times the faculty rate. Graph 2 and Table 2 summarize these findings. It is interesting to notice that average faculty salaries increased at very similar rates to administrators prior to 2003-04. For statistical accuracy, however, it needs to be pointed out that the limited number of upper administrators and chairs and directors can skew the findings due to small sample bias, and chairs were converted from 11/9 to 12/9 in 2006-07 to improve retention and recruitment of chairs.

Table 2: Growth Rates Average Salary
1999-2009	Annual Growth Rate (1999-2009)	1999-2003	Annual Growth Rate (1999-2003)	2003-2009	Annual Growth Rate (2003-2009)
28.1%	2.8%	24.0%	5.5%	3.3%	0.66%
42.2%	4.0%	15.6%	3.7%	23.1%	4.24%
55.3%	5.0%	16.1%	3.8%	33.7%	5.99%

Graph 2

Conclusion

Average Faculty salaries have grown less than inflation in the last five academic years. They are growing at a much lower rate than the average Administrator and Chair salary. As a consequence, the difference between Faculty and Administrators and Chairs’ salaries is increasing over time. The reader should note that this is despite the realization that it takes fewer dollars to generate the same percentage increase for most faculty members relative to administrators.

Appendix: Correcting for Annual Salaries

We are not certain if the amount of faculty salaries corresponds to annual salaries or 9 month salaries. In the previous analysis we assumed that the information provided corresponds to annual salaries. However, if the information corresponds to nine month salaries, this appendix shows the corrections to our tables and figures. Our main conclusions regarding growth rates and divergence of average salaries between administrators and chairs and faculty members are sustained.

Graph 1

9 months salaries	1999-2000	2000-2001	2001-2002	2002-2003	2003-2004	2004-2005	2005-2006	2006-2007	2007-2008	2008-2009
Fac Av. Salary	48139	51036	50612	53473	59683	55123	54116	60107	61192	61681
Administ. Av. Salary	71,922	74,021	74,231	75,676	83,107	88,197	93,822	96,293	99,403	102,268
Chairs Salary	52,645	54,880	56,261	57,116	61,114	67,176	69,272	81,095	77,972	81,734


Ratio Administ/Faculty Salary	1.49	1.45	1.47	1.42	1.39	1.60	1.73	1.60	1.62	1.66
Ratio Chairs/ Faculty Salary	1.09	1.08	1.11	1.07	1.02	1.22	1.28	1.35	1.27	1.33

Figure 2