"Faculty salaries at UW System institutions have now fallen more than 18 percent below the national average."
Kevin Reilly on Friday, December 7th, 2012 in public remarks
UW System president says salaries are 18 percent below national average
The head of the University of Wisconsin System says it’s high time for employee pay raises after several years of freezes, cuts and furloughs.
"We will all pay the price in lost talent and sliding reputation" unless UW starts closing a pay gap between it and peer institutions nationally, System President Kevin Reilly told the Board of Regents on Dec. 7, 2012. "No operation – public or private – can keep its talent if compensation languishes for too long."
Reilly, president since 2004, said the "gap between our UW employees’ compensation and that of their peers has widened in recent years, and that gap continues to grow."
He added: "Indeed, faculty salaries at UW System institutions have now fallen more than 18 percent below the national average."
We suspect, with the state budget season fast approaching, that we’ll hear that 18 percent figure again.
more:
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2012/dec/26/kevin-reilly/uw-system-president-says-salaries-are-18-percent-b/
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