UC Compensation Data Report for 2010
UC has released its annual compensation report for 2010. Below are some highlights:
*Approximately 40% of compensation in 2010 went to academic employees, primarily to faculty and researchers. The remaining 60% went to non-academic employees, including those who support academic departments, student services, patient care and other university functions. As in previous years, the “top 10 earning” employees at UC in 2010, based on total pay, were health sciences faculty members – typically world-renowned specialists in their fields – and athletic coaches.
• Market positions have eroded and are expected to worsen due to lack of salary increases, rising employee medical benefit premiums, the resumption of employee contributions to the UC retirement plan, and a systemwide 12-month furlough program which reduced faculty and staff pay beginning in September 2009 and continuing through August 2010.
• On average, cash compensation for UC faculty is 10 percent below market, and total compensation (cash plus benefits) is 4 percent behind comparable institutions. More recent data show a 12.8 percent salary lag for faculty.
• Union-represented service workers are closer to the market average than all other categories of employees in the UC system, and their total compensation (cash plus benefits) is 18 percent higher than their counterparts at other institutions.
• The largest compensation gap effects [sic Shame! Shame!] senior management group members (e.g., the president, chancellors, deans, vice presidents, chief financial officers) whose cash compensation, on average, was 22 percent lower than their counterparts. Total compensation, including non-cash items such as health, pension and retirement benefits, was 14 percent below their counterparts at comparable institutions.
• Cash compensation for managers, senior professionals, professionals and support staff – both union-represented and non-represented – lags behind their counterparts, with the lag ranging from 13 percent to 19 percent on average.
• Cash compensation for most UC medical center employees is near or slightly above market, except for staff physicians whose pay is 18 percent below market.
• Consistent with healthcare industry practices, UC medical centers use performance-based (incentive) compensation programs to encourage and reward employees of every level for quality patient care and operational efficiency. UC medical centers are self-supporting enterprises and their operating expenses, including employee compensation, are paid from operating revenues – no state funds are used.
Source of the above highlights: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/compensation/payroll2010/employee_pay_summary_cy2010.pdf
Note: Despite the 40% number cited above for “academic employees,” only about one-eighth of payroll from all sources goes to “ladder and acting ranks.”
These and other references on pay in 2010 and before are at http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/compensation/payroll2010/
Don’t spend it all right away:
UPDATE: It took awhile for the news reports to catch up with this report but here is an item: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/27/MN1E1KS04Q.DTL