University of Washington chapter
American Association of 
University Professors  

 Supplemental Data and Reports
 State of the Faculty Record Card 2006

Compression
Sabbatical Squeeze
Duane Storti Lawsuit

Compression: Three reports use different ways to measure compression and inversion.

 Office of Institutional Studies inversion analysis:  (inversion is defined here as someone of superior rank making less than the highest paid individual of inferior ranks) 

• There were 304 professors paid less than the highest paid associate professor in the same department,
• there were 62 professors paid less than the highest paid assistant professor in the same department, and
• there were 185 associate professors paid less than the highest paid assistant professor in the same department.

 Working Group on Policy choices for Allocating $2 Million to Address Compression in Faculty Salaries   Report October 18, 2005

 The Provost appointed this working group and used its recommendations in setting guidelines for the allocation of compression funds.

Salary Inversion and Compression Within Departments at the University of Washington

Report prepared by David Lovell 

Faculty Legislative Representative and Associate Professor of Psychosocial & Community Health David Lovell prepared this report at the request of AAUP and shared it with the Working Group on Policy Choices. It defines thresholds for compression and inversion and offers these and other findings: 

·         Of 64 departments included in this analysis, there were 44 (69%) with at least one full or associate professor with an inverted salary (Figure 1).

·         Of 1172 regular teaching faculty at the associate or full professor ranks, there were 138 (12%) with inverted salaries, including 26 full professors classified with severely inverted pay, i.e., less than the median of assistant professors in the same department (Figure 2).

·         Of 64 departments, there were 59 (92%) with at least one associate or full professor paid a compressed salary (Figure 1).

·         Of 1172 regular teaching faculty at the associate or full professor ranks in the 64 departments, there were 279 (24%) with compressed salaries (Figure 2).   

Sabbatical Squeeze: Two tables follow. The first shows university wide allocations of sabbatical quarters by college for the academic years 2000-01 and 2005-06. The second shows Arts and Science requests and allocations by division 2005-06. All of these tables understate the “quarters requested,” since some applications for leave never reach the deans and others are renegotiated at that level. 

SABBATICAL QUARTER ALLOCATIONS BY COLLEGES 2000-01 and 2005-06 

 Prepared by Academic Human Resources 10/13/05 

Totals:
347 allocated 2000-01 
353 allocated 2005-06

Duane Storti Lawsuit: The university agreed that the following classes of faculty are covered by the settlement:

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Without Tenure
Acting Assistant Professor Pending Ph.D.
Assistant/Associate/Full Research Professor
Lecturer Full-Time
Senior/Principal Lecturer
Artist in Residence
Senior Artist in Residence
clinical professors holding multi-year promotional pathway appointments