Pay increases help UNL keep faculty, official says
Increase in base
UNL professors
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Source: Coordinating Commission
tor Postsecondary Education
Brian SheilitO'Daily Nebraskan
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B‘ Shelley Miller
Staff Reporter
Increases in base pay for UNL
professors over the last nine years
have helped the university become
more competitive with peer institu
tions, the Academic Senate president
said.
James McShanc said the $23,000
average increase over nine years is
impressive, but doesn’t tell the whole
story.
“We were, on the average, 20
percent below our peers when we
went into the salary initiative three
years ago,” he said.
Three years ago, the Nebraska
Legislature began increasing Univer
sity of Nebraska salaries in an at
tempt to bring them closer to salaries
—
at a group of peer institutions.
Professors’ salaries at the Un „r
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln went trom
an average of $30,337 in 1980-81 to
$53,303 in 1989-90, according to a
recent report by the Nebraska Coor
dinating Commission for Postsecon
dary Education.
The report compared pay increases
to cost-of-living increases. If the
Consumer Price Index had been the
only factor considered, the average
salary would have been $44,472.
McShane said the change in pay
scale has helped the university be
come better able to compete for the
faculty members it needs.
McShane said he was not sure where
UNL stood in relation to its peer uni
versities, but he said it was important
to maintain parity.
“If we fall back, we will have to
play catch-up ball again,” he said.
According to the report, UNL full
professor salaries met or exceeded
cost-of-living increases in seven of
nine years of the study.
McShanc said he hadn’t gone over
the report yet, but he would guess that
the years UNL did not match infla
tion were during the farm crisis of the
mid-’80s.
Of the 26 Nebraska postsecondary
schools, both public and private, in
cluded in the report, UNL was second
only to the University of Nebraska
Medical Center in professor salaries.
“The increases look impressive,
and they are,” McShane said. “They
represent a stalwart effort on the part
of the state.”
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