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.

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.

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.