Pay, rank, and growing old with more of each

Faculty salary equity: Issues and options

“…Sponsored research, for example, may be a highly rewarded activity in engineering, but relatively less important in the humanities where such funding sources are extremely limited. Other work (McLaughlin, Montgomery, and Mahan, 1979) indicates that different factors are rewarded for those in different ranks. Still others have shown that salaries are heavily influenced by the characteristics of the institution as a whole (Pounder, 1989).…”

Academic top earners. Research productivity, prestige generation, and salary patterns in European universities

“…It differs from existing salary studies in its focus, sample, and method. It goes beyond previous work that has studied academic salaries either in single institutions (Katz 1973;Ferber 1974;Fox 1985), multiple institutions (Hamermesh et al 1982;Konrad and Pfeffer 1990;Ward 2001) or national systems (mostly the USA, as in McLaughlin et al (1979); Gomez-Mejia and Balkin (1992); Bellas (1993); Fairweather (1993); Barbezat and Hughes (2005); Fairweather (2005); Melguizo and Strober (2007)). Also, it explores crossnational differences in salary patterns in ten European countries based on large-scale international survey data regarding the academic profession (N ¼ 17,211).…”

“…Studies on academic salaries focus on various aspects of academic work: publications and teaching/research abilities (Katz 1973), male and female salaries vis-a-vis research performance (Ferber et al 1978), the role of citations (Hamermesh et al 1982), institutional emphasis on research (Konrad and Pfeffer 1990), publications in top-tier journals (Gomez-Mejia and Balkin 1992), journal rankings (Gibson et al 2014), the maximization of prestige (Melguizo and Strober 2007), academic ranks and strategies to succeed financially (McLaughlin et al 1979), teaching vs. research (Fairweather 1993(Fairweather , 2005 and others.…”

“…Research consistently shows scholarly productivity to be a strong correlate of faculty pay. Teaching has been typically shown to be unrelated to or to be a negative factor in faculty compensation (see Katz (1973); McLaughlin et al (1979); Hamermesh et al (1982); Konrad and Pfeffer (1990); Fairweather (1993); Gomez-Mejia and Balkin (1992); Fairweather (2005); Melguizo and Strober (2007); and Gibson et al (2014)). The quality of research (as measured by citations) is rewarded by the academic market (Hamermesh et al 1982: 481): 'an additional reference adds more to salary than does the publication of an additional book or article.'…”

“…Based on the research literature and given the limitations of the dataset at our disposal, specifically the lack of a link between individual observations and bibliometric data, we developed an analytical model to study academic salaries. Specifically, we employed selected variables found in McLaughlin et al (1979), Gomez-Mejia and Balkin (1992), Fairweather (1993), Melguizo and Strober (2007), and Shen and Xiong (2015). In this multivariate analysis, we dichotomized all category variables through a recoding procedure.…”