Overview 2017 Staff in Higher Education Salary Report

Overview 2017 Staff in Higher Education Salary Report

Staff

in Higher Education Salary Report

Key Findings, Trends, and Comprehensive Tables for the 2016-17 Academic Year

2017

CITATION FOR THIS REPORT: Bichsel, Jacqueline, and McChesney, Jasper (May 2017). Staff in Higher Education Salary Report: Key Findings, Trends, and Comprehensive Tables for the 2016-17 Academic Year. Research report. Knoxville, TN: CUPA-HR. Available from:

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About CUPA-HR Authors Citation for this report

Contents Highlights Introduction

Survey Positions Participating Institution Characteristics Salaries of Higher Education Staff Representation and Pay of Racial/Ethnic Minority Staff Representation and Pay of Female Staff Regional Variation in Staff Salaries Regional Differences in Years in Position Methodology Survey Respondents Acknowledgments Appendix A. Comprehensive Tables List of Tables Appendix B. Responding Institutions

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Highlights

The following are highlighted results from the CUPA-HR Staff in Higher Education Salary Report:

Overall, higher ed staff have an annualized median pay of $35,000. Skilled craft workers have the highest pay, and service/maintenance workers have the lowest.

There are large regional differences in staff salaries, particularly in the areas of skilled craft and service/maintenance. The Northeast pays the highest salaries, and the South pays the lowest.

Racial/ethnic minorities are underrepresented in higher ed staff for all but service/ maintenance positions. In addition, there is a minority pay gap for all but office/ clerical positions.

Women are well-represented in all staff areas except skilled craft. However, they are paid less than men in all areas except office/clerical work.

The gender pay gap is greater at older ages. Experience (years in position) does not mitigate this relation, as the pay gap is also greater in those with more experience.

The age ranges for staff positions are wide, ranging from the early 20s to age 65 and beyond. The exception is in the area of skilled craft positions, where ages of incumbents are most likely to be in the late 40s and 50s.

The overall median years in position for higher ed staff is 4. The lowest turnover is among skilled craft workers in the Northeast, who have a median of 11 years in their position.

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Introduction

This year is a momentous one for CUPA-HR research. As we celebrate our 50th anniversary of collecting salary data, we are also celebrating transformations in the way data are collected for all salary surveys and in the ways we report this data. Rather than contributing aggregated (average) data for each position, participants now report salary data for each incumbent. This new method of data collection allows for the reporting of key demographic variables, including gender, race/ethnicity, birth year (estimated age), and years in position for all the positions we survey: administrators, professionals, faculty, and staff.1

In addition to changes in data collection, we have also instituted changes in the design of our annual reports. Reports now feature "deep dive" analyses that explore aspects of our data that are of general interest to the higher education community. Reports also feature more data visualization -- new graphs and charts help summarize data and aid in interpretation.

SURVEY POSITIONS

There were 149 staff positions surveyed this year.2 These generally nonexempt positions are grouped into the following categories for the purpose of data collection:

Office/Clerical Staff Technical/Paraprofessional Staff Skilled Craft Staff Service/Maintenance Staff

Positions are added or deleted each year on the basis of ongoing analysis of which positions are common enough to benchmark. Suggested position additions are evaluated by an advisory committee each year. Positions are deleted when analyses for this report show they are no longer common enough to provide sufficient benchmarking data.

1 See the Staff Survey Participation Integrated Template for a list of all survey questions.

2 See the Staff Survey Participation Integrated Template for a list of all positions surveyed. Data for executive and director-level positions are collected in the Administrators Survey. Data for professional positions (usually requiring a college degree) are collected in the Professionals Survey.

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PARTICIPATING INSTITUTION CHAR ACTERISTICS

The information in Figure 1 summarizes the institutional characteristics of respondents on this year's Staff in Higher Education Salary Survey. In total, 737 institutions provided data on 169,358 staff for the 149 positions surveyed.1 Institutions are well-represented by classification, affiliation, and region. These data show that CUPA-HR survey respondents are representative of the population of colleges and universities in the U.S.

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1 See Appendix B for a list of all participating institutions.

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