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