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University systems and the value society places on them vary hugely
around the globe. For us, the relevant comparison class is Canada,
and then the United states - since SFU competes for academics
largely on the North American market. It is surprising, if true,
that Canadian salaries should be higher, on average, than US ones.
Not so much so for entry level ones, but but for ones at the top. Still, there are rather large differences between the US and Canadian systems. One is that US academics often (perhaps usually) only get paid for 8 or 9 months a year, have the summers off, and are free to take other employment then. The other is that there are huge differences in salaries between states and between institutions. Salaries at a state college in rural Alabama are likely to be half of what they are, say, Harvard or Washington University, St. Lewis. Differences on that scale simply do not exist in Canada. So the average salary is not very informative. The question of where SFU fits, and where it ought to fit, on that spectrum is a really a difficult one to answer. Martin On 07/11/2013 7:19 PM, Neil Abramson
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