For your information only.
I started to teach at UTC as an adjunct in January 1990.
By my record I got raises  5 times, which are:-
SPRING 1993  4%
SPRING 1995  2%
SPRING 1998  2%
SPRING 1999  2%
SPRING 2000  3%
When I get a 2% raise, it gives me approximately $27 more for 3-cr lecture
course and $10 more for 1-cr lab course.
I won 4 awards worth $900 during 13.5 years of teaching at UTC.

Chantana Lane

I can not say that the other adjuncts recieved the same rate as mine,
because I found that there are different between department to department.

>I just read Harold Climer's response to Charles Lippy's email and I think
>the raises he mentioned for  "fulltime faculty and staff" should be put in
>perspective from a statistical point of view.
>
>Since October 1994(the famous election year raise), the percentages below
>represent the percentage raises of a fellow UTC tenured faculty member who
>has kept his pay stubs  over the past 9 years (it excludes the $300 raise
>for health insurance this past year and exceptional merit which have not
>been given since who can remember). I daresay that it probably mirrors the
>raises of the majority of the faculty over this period.
>
>August 1996     2.12%
>January 1998    2%
>January 1999    2%
>August  2000    3.5%
>August  2001    2.5%
>January 2002   2.5%
>January 2003   2%
>
>This computes to a compounded raise of 17.84181% over a period of 9 years.
>That is,
>(1.0212)(1.02)...(1.025)(1.02)=1.1784181
>
>This total % raise computes to an average raise (compounded) of 1.84% per
>year
>in some of  the best of economic times in this country. That is,
>(1 + r)^9=1.1784181 yields r = .0184 = 1.84%
>
>This, of course, excludes the raises this past January bringing a select few
>up to 80% of market value and creating a myriad of compression problems. For
>instance, in our department, the average salary of assistant professors is
>roughly the same as that of associates, many of whom have been teaching more
>than 20 years, while all the salaries of full professors are now bunched
>together.
>
>I would hope that when Dr. Ernst does his comparison of administrative
>raises with faculty that he uses a model such as the one above as a basis
>for comparison. And I would hope that, to give a better overall picture, he
>extends this study to this 9 year window rather than the past 5 years he
>mentioned in last week's newspaper article.
>
>Also, in this morning's paper it was stated that the average salary of a
>full professor was $69K+. In our department two full professor salaries are
>above this figure, those of the department head and the chair of excellence
>(who came from PhD granting schools). Were outliers thrown out when the
>average salary of a full professor was computed? If not, I do not think the
>average salary is indicative of the salary compression that most faculty
>have experienced in the past decade. Rather, it gives undue weight to the
>salaries of endowed chairs and the newly formed SIM program. In statistics
>it is understood that, for salary and price issues,  the median (the middle
>measurement) rather than the mean is a better indicator of the central
>tendency of the data. This is because the median reduces the effect of
>outliers. Without a careful analysis of this issue the term "average" salary
>is probably not meaningful.
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Harold Climer" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 3:56 PM
>Subject: Re: [UTCSTAFF] Salaries
>
>
>> At 11:11 AM 8/29/03 -0400, Charles Lippy wrote:
>> >My personal outrage at the way salary inequity is being perpetuated stems
>> >as much from the demeaning remarks reported in the press this morning as
>> >from administrators getting hired at inflated salaries or being given
>> >raises approaching ten percent (in order to be competitive, we're told).
>> >All of us deserve a competitive salary. But the statement attributed to a
>> >top-level administrator that administrators work harder than faculty and
>> >were being asked to do more in tough financial times (aren't we all?) was
>> >hard to swallow. So, too, was the "let them eat cake" type of statement
>> >reported when another, even more senior adminstrator was quoted as saying
>> >that it was easier to fix a few salaries than 250. In good conscience I
>had
>> >to rescind my acceptance of an invitation to the Chancellor's home for
>> >faculty on a school night at that. After all, I did not want to add to
>the
>> >perception that as a mere faculty member I had nothing to do on a weekend
>> >but socialize. Perhaps the UTC administration has taken too many lessons
>> >from Schumacher.
>> >Chuck Lippy
>> >LeRoy A. Martin Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies
>>   I know I do not rate very highly here at UTC(monetarily speaking), just
>> being an adjunct instructor in Physics, despite what our
>>   contracts say each semester..It is true that our faculty are underpaid,
>> but most the
>> full time faculty and staff have had several raises since adjuncts had
>one.
>> It could be worse, full time people could be in the same boat as we are .
>>



Chantana Israngkul Lane
UTC Physics Department, 318 Grote Hall, Office telephone:  423-425-5247
823 Oak Street, Chattanooga, TN. 37403-2409, Home telephone: 423-265-7804