Hello all, I've received three nice raises well above cost of living in the ten years I've been here. It was a huge blessing. I started in here with a lower than average salary, but it's decent now. It's still tough to make ends meet on just that, but I also make more than some of the tenure track faculty that have been here a few years and only a little less than some of the tenured faculty that have been here much longer than me... Our situation here is a lot like Chris Purdy mentioned in his post in terms of how raises are handled. I also received a big bump when they were worried they might loose me one year. That was nice.... Raises above the cost of living will happen if they love you, and they're worried they could loose you. It might help to press the point by applying for other positions that pay better, but thankfully I didn't have to do that here. Lately, the climate in most states is not conducive to pressing too hard... In this country none of us have to work for less than we think we are worth. If we do, that's our decision (but sometimes the desire to eat offsets our pride ;) The top end on the UT job is not bad at all, but I was surprised to see it was an hourly rate to start, although some weeks here, working by the hour with overtime pay might be kind of nice! I'm on salary, and I think that's more common. My position is considered professional staff, which is handled more like a faculty position in terms of expectations and compensation. I don't think addressing this in the guidelines is appropriate. Salary information is very helpful to have, but I think that info should be handled separately in terms of knowing the bench mark salaries for CAUT positions at the various types of schools based on an occasional survey. We can than use that as ammo to go after raises if we feel we are under paid and overlooked for raises. It's always interesting to see how the different schools handle these positions, but showing that info in the guidelines could cause more problems than it solves. Scott E. Thile Piano-Instrument Tech --------------------- Dept. of Music, Murray State University 504 Fine Arts Building, Murray, KY 42071 http://campus.murraystate.edu/staff/scott.thile/index.html mailto:scott.thile@murraystate.edu My Faith: http://campus.murraystate.edu/staff/scott.thile/Christian/index.html Ministry: http://www.radioministries.org/
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