Faculty Salaries and Personnel Actions at UCD and other UCs Over Past 20 Years

This bulletin contains three tables of data: I. Systemwide Salary Differential Over 20 Years; II. Davis Personnel Actions in Systemwide Perspective; III. Historical Davis Campus Personnel Practices. Notice particularly the low salary ranking in table one and the high CAP denial rate in table three.

Some definitions: The term CCO is long standing UC shorthand for "Chief Campus Officer."  In principle that is the Chancellor; in practice it is almost invariably the Vice Provost by delegation from the "CCO." Professional schools are excluded from the Academe survey and main campus faculty who are on 11 months' appointments have their gross salaries scaled back to their nine-months' equivalents--roughly a 15% reduction. 

Table I: Systemwide Salary Differential over 20 years

The Davis faculty have been at or near the bottom of the systemwide salary ladder for many years. The table recently distributed with data from 1998-99 continues rankings that have held more or less constant for over 20 years. The following information was published in "Academe", a periodical of the AAUP, which publishes extensive information about faculty economic matters annually. Both salary and "compensation" data are presented. The latter includes employer-paid benefits that have cash equivalents. The last column in the tables is the difference between the Compensation and the Salary at the Full rank.

Year: 1978-79

Compensation

Salary

Campus Prof Assoc Asst Prof Assoc Asst Prof Differential
B 38.2 26.4 22.2 30.8 20.8 17.3 7.4
D 34.5 25.9 21.4 27.7 20.4 16.6 6.8
I 36.2 25.8 21.4 29.1 20.4 16.6 7.1
LA 37.3 26.1 22.0 30.0 20.6 17.2 7.3
R 35.0 25.8 21.1 28.1 20.1 16.4 6.9
SD 36.9 26.0 21.4 29.7 20.5 16.7 7.1
SB 36.0 26.3 21.2 28.9 20.8 16.8 7.1
SC 35.2 25.6 21.2 28.2 20.2 16.8 6.8
 

1979-80

B 44.8 29.8 25.3 35.8 23.5 20.0 9.0
D 41.1 29.4 24.5 32.7 23.3 19.2 8.4
I 42.3 29.4 24.1 33.7 23.2 19.2 8.6
LA 43.2 29.8 24.6 34.7 23.1 19.3 8.8
R 40.8 29.1 23.4 32.6 23.0 18.3 8.2
SD 43.2 29.3 24.1 34.5 23.2 18.9 8.7
SB 41.8 29.7 24.1 33.4 23.5 18.9 8.4
SC 40.2 28.9 24.2 32.1 22.9 19.0 8.1
 

1984-85

B 65.4 43.4 37.3 54.3 34.9 29.6 11.5
D 57.4 41.0 35.5 47.5 32.8 28.0 10.4
I 59.4 42.2 36.7 48.7 33.8 29.2 10.7
LA 62.9 42.1 36.3 51.7 33.7 29.2 11.2
R 57.3 41.2 34.5 46.9 33.0 27.2 10.4
SD 61.3 41.8 36.0 50.4 33.4 28.5 10.9
SB 60.0 42.2 36.1 49.3 33.8 28.5 10.7
SC 55.8 40.5 33.0 45.6 32.3 25.9 10.2
 

1989-90

B 87.0 58.4 49.9 72.4 47.4 39.9 14.6
D 76.1 52.8 46.3 63.5 43.0 37.4 12.6
I 80.4 55.7 48.3 67.1 45.5 39.0 13.3
LA 84.1 54.9 49.4 70.1 44.6 39.7 14.0
R 75.9 52.0 44.6 62.7 42.6 36.1 12.3
SD 82.1 55.6 47.8 68.5 45.2 38.4 13.6
SB 80.2 53.4 48.3 66.8 43.3 38.4 13.4
SC 75.5 53.9 45.8 63.0 43.3 37.0 12.5
 

1994-95

B 101.6 70.4 60.6 80.1 53.7 45.7 21.5
D 90.5 64.9 55.4 71.1 49.7 42.0 19.4
I 94.0 67.8 58.7 74.0 51.9 44.9 20.0
LA 98.9 69.1 58.6 78.0 52.9 44.3 20.9
R 90.7 62.1 55.0 71.5 47.6 41.9 19.2
SD 96.3 66.0 58.1 75.9 50.4 43.5 20.9
SB 94.9 64.6 55.5 74.9 49.4 42.0 20.0
SC 88.4 63.7 54.3 69.5 49.0 41.2 18.9
 

1998-99

B 130.8 87.7 73.2 103.6 68.3 57.0 27.2
D 111.1 80.5 67.2 87.4 62.5 52.1 23.7
I 117.5 84.2 68.2 92.7 65.5 53.1 24.8
LA 128.2 84.1 70.4 101.4 65.4 54.7 26.8
R 112.1 78.5 70.4 88.2 61.1 54.8 23.9
SD 122.3 82.3 69.0 96.6 64.1 53.7 25.7
SB 119.3 79.2 65.4 94.2 61.7 51.0 25.1
SC 110.8 78.7 63.1 87.2 61.3 49.2 23.6

Table II: Davis Personnel Actions in Systemwide Perspective

The following is a summary of information taken from CAP annual reports of other Divisions along with similar information for UCD in 1997-98 and 1998-9.

  CAP Recommendation CCO Decision
  Yes No Split Yes No Pending
 
UCLA 1997/98            
Promotions            
8 year limit

43

6

 

43

6

 
Associate

38

9

 

40

8

 
Full

46

9

 

46

9

 
Merits            
To VI

29

9

 

30

8

 
To AS

13

13

 

18

8

 
 
UCSB 1998-99            
Prom to Assoc

15

7

 

11

7

5

Prom to Full

19

2

 

16

2

5

To VI (17 cases)

4

6

 

4

0

13

To AS (23 cases)

10

10

 

8

8

7

 
UCR 1998-99            
Prom to Assoc

12

2

1

13

2

 
Prom to Full

11

2

1

11

2

1

To VI and AS

8

1

1

9

1

 
 
UCD 1997-98            
Prom. Assoc

31

22

 

39

14

 
Prom. Full

38

14

 

38

14

 
             
UCD 1998-99            
Prom. Assoc

34

10

 

35

9

 
Prom. Full

37

17

 

38

16

 
To VI      

25

7

 
To AS      

13

3

 
 
UCSD 1997-98 Approve Modify No
Tenure appt/prom

27

5

1

Full rank appt/prom

20

8

1

Accel:merits

31

7

8

Accel:prom's

14

3

4

There were 60 modifications in all categories, of which 12 advantaged the candidate and 48 disadvantaged the candidate.
 
UCI 1997-98
Results reported in aggregates. The UCI CAP seems to be quite willing to reconsider its tentative recommendations.
  Promotions: tentatively 74% yes finally 85% yes
  Merits: tentatively 84% yes finally 88% yes
  In 54 cases CAP tentatively disagreed with departments
  in 14 cases CAP wanted to go higher
  in 20 cases CAP wanted to go lower
  in 20 cases Cap wanted to say no
After reconsideration 25 of the "negatives" were reversed.

Table III: Historical Davis Campus Personnel Practices

The following information was taken from the Annual Reports of the UCD Committee on Academic Personnel at five year intervals for the last 20 years. The committee reports vary in the amount of detail they present about the various actions so what appears below is just the "bare bones" yes/no figures from each of them. "Other" represents mainly actions pending or split votes. Total numbers of actions from CAP and CCO do not necessarily agree exactly because of carry-overs from prior years, etc.

 

Promotions to Associate Professor

 

CAP

CCO

Year Yes No Other Yes No Other
1998-99 34 10   35 9 1
1997-98 31 22   39 14  
1992-93 37 7 1 39 6  
1987-88 35 18   38 9 7
1982-83 32 7 3 32 8 3
1977-78 46 7 6 46 5 6

Promotions to Full Professor

 

CAP

CCO

Year Yes No Other Yes No Other
1998-99 37 17   38 16  
1997-98 38 14   38 14  
1992-93 42 11   42 11  
1987-88 35 18   38 9 7
1982-83 33 18 2 34 17 2
1977-78 26 11 1 26 10 2
 

Step VI

AS

Year Yes No Pending Yes No Pending
1998-99 25 7 13 3    
1992-93 20 12 2 2    
1987-88 17 11 4 0 2 1

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