Resource Allocation Committee

Faculty Salary Study

The AdvanceRIT Resource Allocation Committee directs and oversees a salary gender-equity study of tenure-track faculty from across the university (including those in STEM, SBS, and non-STEM/SBS). The goal is to understand the direct and indirect effects that gender may have on faculty salary. The RAC examines salaries for potential systematic differences:

• Discipline
• Rank
• Time in Rank
• Terminal Degree
• Benchmark Salary (based on discipline/rank)
• Overall Performance Rating (not separate performance ratings in teaching, research, or service)
   

Does NOT account directly for scholarships quantity or quality, teaching evaluations, workload portfolio, experience prior to RIT, etc.

Tenured and Pre-Tenure faculty only, excludes deans and associate deans, endowed chairs

Process

Data:

• 2014 salary after annual merit review and market adjustments for 699 T-TT RIT faculty.
   

External Consultant: Center for Higher Education at Ohio University, hired through transparent Request for Proposal (RFP) process

• RIT Human Resources/Ohio University protocol for data exchange
• Preprocessing of data
• RAC only saw aggregate results
   

Statistical Methodology:

• Regression model to observe effects of independent variables in explaining salary

Findings

Executive Summary emailed to all faculty; Presentation emailed to Deans

Journey Has Just Begun

Dissemination 

• Executive Summary emailed to all faculty; Presentation emailed to Deans 
• Open Campus Presentations 
• RAC Poster has been Developed
   

Moving Forward 

• Engage more faculty in the dialogue
• Continue analyses with more complex models