Information Item # 3– Submitted by the Budget Advisory Committee

Budget Advisory Committee
December 2009

Average salary by rank (2008)

Professor: UNF $88,996 is 14% below SUS $103,633

Associate: UNF $66,337 is 8% below SUS $72,438

Assistant: UNF $54,271 is 13% below SUS $62,709

Average salary by rank (1997)

Professor: UNF $59,312 is 9% below SUS $65,212

Associate: UNF $45,576 is 3% below SUS $46,790

Assistant: UNF $34,989 is 14% below SUS $40,768

UNF still lags the SUS average for all ranks as was the case 11 years ago.

The gaps for Professors and Associate Professors have widened by 5%, changing from 9% to 14% and
from 3% to 8%, respectively.

The gap for Assistant Professors remains significant at 13%, down slightly from 14% in 1997.

For Professors we are fifth to the last among 11 schools in the SUS.

For Associate Professors we are second to last in the SUS.

For Assistant Professors we are third to last in the SUS.

UNF is dead last on the overall average faculty salary among all SUS universities.

Salary increases for both Professors and Associate Professors at UNF are nine percentage points (9%) less
than their counterparts across the SUS, resulting in the widening gaps observed in the previous data.

Assistant Professors at UNF had an average of a 55% increase between 1997 and 2008, about the same
level as the SUS average (54%). As a result, the large gap (~14%) between UNF and the SUS remains
almost unchanged.

As a general remark, we are falling further behind in faculty salaries overall.

Below is the percentage of the E&G budget expenditures spent in each of the following categories across the SUS
during the budget year 2007-2008.

The data for 1996-97 are also shown for comparison.

UNF (60%) is slightly below the SUS average of 65% for 2007-08. Both averages are similar to their
1996-97 values.

UNF spends 6.3% of the total E&G budget on research. This is below the SUS average of 10.7%.

Excluding FSU, UF, UCF, and USF, UNF has the second highest percentage spending behind FAU.

UNF (6.6%) is below the SUS average (7.9%). It is the 4th lowest among the 11 universities.

Enrollment-related activities include library resources, library staffing, university support, financial aid,
and student services.

UNF (30%) is above the SUS average (23%). It is the 5th highest among the 11 universities.

Universities with larger enrollments tend to have smaller percentage expenses in this category.

UNF devotes the lowest percentage of the E&G budget to library expenses (resources and staffing) among
the 11 universities in SUS.

UNF spends 2% more per undergraduate student FTE on instruction than the SUS average.

UNF spends 17% less per graduate student FTE on instruction than the SUS average. The large difference
may be due to the smaller percentage of Ph.D. students at UNF.

Overall, UNF spends 12% less per FTE on instruction than the SUS average. It is the second lowest among
11 SUS universities.

This graph was constructed assuming that each University allocates a percentile of their total budget per
grad/undergrad student similar to that of their Instruction expenses.

UNF spends 2%, 20%, and 16% less than the SUS averages per undergraduate, graduate, and overall FTE,
respectively. UNF has the lowest overall per FTE spending in the SUS.