Abstract
This study presents the use of two methods to determine whether compression existed in the salaries of the faculty employed during the 1999-2000 academic year at Ashland University, a private university in the mid-west. One of the methods assessed salary compression by determining whether the variable representing the faculty members’ numbers of years of experience served as a negative suppressor variable in a regression model. The other method examined salary compression by statistically testing the mean difference between the predicted and actual salaries of junior faculty, where the predicted salaries were obtained from a regression model that assumed they were senior faculty. The application of these two methods to the university's faculty salaries for the 1999-2000 academic year, which produced results suggesting faculty salaries were not compressed, may serve as a guide for other institutions.
Recommended Citation
Fraas, John W.
(2002)
"Assessing Faculty Salary Compression: An Application of Two Methods,"
Mid-Western Educational Researcher: Vol. 15:
Iss.
4, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/mwer/vol15/iss4/6
