SEMO pay raises, public vs. private schools
Posted Friday, July 11, 2008 @ 02:21 pm

I've gotten a few questions about faculty pay raises at Southeast Missouri State University. On Wednesday I reported the Board of Regents approved a budget that included a 3.25 percent pay raise for faculty and staff.
The 3.25 raise is an average for all faculty. It includes raises associated with promotions.
Out of the 3.25 average raise, 75 percent of it went to a base raise and 25 percent went to promotions. That means regular faculty members received a 2.44 percent raise. The remaining .81 percent was spent on promoting about 60 faculty members. Promotions, such as raising from assistant professor to professor, range from $5,000 to $7,900.
Here is a list of people who received promotions.
The university employs over 400 full-time faculty members, which means a majority of faculty will only receive the 2.44 percent raise.
Thank you, readers, for pointing this out. And thanks to Mona Hughey, budget office director, for providing me clarification.