To the Editor:
Whose faculty salary is $68,000 a year? I wish it were true!
Most faculty members’ base salaries are below their years in age. The fact is that UMS faculty salaries rank 47th in the nation.
Overall, the seven campus average faculty salary is $51,896 with the Orono faculty receiving the lion’s share with an average salary of $55,200.
As of Oct. 30, 2001, average faculty salaries at USM were $53,340. Salaries vary by rank and length of service. Average assistant professor salaries are $43,372; associate professors earn $54,000 and the 74 full professors have an average salary of $67,500.
The salary situation at USM continually deteriorates. We live in the area of the state with the highest cost of living but the Orono salaries are much higher and we are below salaries of comparable institutions nationwide.
Don Anspach
President, USM’s full-time faculty union