{"id":1172,"date":"2015-05-22T16:32:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T16:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2015-05-22T16:32:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T16:32:44","slug":"raises-during-an-economic-downturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/2015\/05\/22\/raises-during-an-economic-downturn\/","title":{"rendered":"Raises during an economic downturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>written on March 1, 2012 and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/?tag=post-tenure-posts\">saved for publication until tenure<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>OSU lifted the freeze on pay raises after a 2+ year hiatus due to the economic downturn. Across the board, faculty received a 4% raise. Additionally, &#8216;equity&#8217; raises were made to account for disparities in income between those with equivalent positions. On top of the 4% &#8216;cost of living&#8217; raise, I received an additional 6% equity raise, for a 10%, unsolicited, raise.<\/p>\n<p>My first reaction was anger. 10%. Say the average raise was 5%. Every college of engineering tenure-track (or tenured) faculty member has a salary in the 80th percentile or higher. There are roughly 130 such people. Those raises alone would be enough to hire 13 people at 50th percentile salaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>written on March 1, 2012 and saved for publication until tenure OSU lifted the freeze on pay raises after a 2+ year hiatus due to the economic downturn. Across the board, faculty received a 4% raise. Additionally, &#8216;equity&#8217; raises were made to account for disparities in income between those with equivalent positions. On top of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[187578],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-post-tenure-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}