Faculty Salaries as a Percentage of Market

UC Faculty Salaries as a Percentage of Market (PDF 41KB) Attracting quality faculty and staff to UCSF and retaining them are critical to achieving UCSF's mission of advancing health worldwide™. The UCSF Strategic Plan specifically recommends that the University "improve the financial aspects of recruitment and retention to compensate for the high cost of living in the Bay Area." In the Promoting a Supportive Work Environment section, the strategic plan states that "UCSF is facing a crisis due to the high cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area. The lack of affordable, desirable housing, child care and education is formidable. UCSF must work to provide more attractive and competitive compensation packages, assist with affordable child care and provide greater financial aid, among other efforts to recruit and retain faculty, staff, students and trainees." Previous cuts to UC's and UCSF's budgets have resulted in significant disparities in faculty and staff salaries as compared with the market. As this display shows, UC faculty salaries currently lag the market by nearly 10 percent and there is a similar problem with respect to staff salaries, according to the UC Office of the President. In 2007-2008, UC has initiated an accelerated four-year plan to bring faculty salaries back to market levels by 2010-2011. To achieve the goal of maintaining a market-based, competitive compensation package program for its employees, the University's budget plan for 2008-2009 includes a compensation package of 5 percent for faculty and staff salaries funded from state and UC General Funds and student fee income.

University of California 2008-09 Budget for Current Operations