Re: Fwd: faculty salaries

Yes, definitely interesting, but so hard to compare: my friends working in continental europe are not paid tons more or even a bit less, but 1/1 teaching load forever, unlimited (or practically) funding for research travel; pd expenses, etc, combined with (in the case of a close friend working in Norway) 4 weeks vacation (I mean real, get off the campus, get outta town, don't do research vacation) on top of his research semester... makes it difficult to calculate the dollars and sense (cents) of it all. But yes, absolutely, interesting read. And I think we would all be wise to pay attention to the U.S.

Thanks Neil, I'll tweet the link tomorrow.

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I received this today. It seems our salaries are pretty good compared to international rates. We may be plummeting versus salaries at other Canadian universities, but there's a long way to the very bottom.

Neil

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From: Gerardo Otero <otero@sfu.ca>
Date: 7 November, 2013 11:26:27 AM PST
To: Brian Green <brian_green@sfu.ca>, Neil Abramson <neil_abramson@sfu.ca>
Subject: faculty salaries
Reply-To: Gerardo Otero <otero@sfu.ca>

Dear Neil and Brian:

As you'll see in the article linked below, Canadian faculty wages seem to be the highest in the world on a purchasing-power parity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/02/world/europe/02iht-educlede02.html

Thus, here's my interpretation of recent SFUFA surveys and yesterdays meeting: our members may actually be more interested in principles and values such as divesting from the oil industry and FAIRNESS in wages within Canada. That is to say, it is inaccurate to say that we are interested in salaries or money per se. What we don't like is that other people doing the same work as us are getting paid more. Perhaps it would be worth making this distinction, as evidently not many people were swayed by the trustees messenger about how costly it may be to have the option to divest from oil.

Great meeting yesterday, by the way!

Best, Gerardo

Gerardo Otero, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology

and Associate Member of the

School of International Studies
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC Canada
http://www.sfu.ca/~otero/
Tel. +778-782-4508