Raises
In order to compare treatment of already hired employees, we compare changes in base salary over the period from 11 September 2015 to 6 September 2019. These changes are the result of regular raises, promotional raises, discretionary raises, or changes in position or assignment. We reduce statistical noise by ignoring all employees who were not full-time for both paychecks, or who changed college-level units, or who switched from 9-month to 12-month or vice versa.
We will look at average in salary change per year over those four years. Fellow wonks will recall that "average" can mean all kinds of things; the computation of "average" here is described at the end of this article. Let's start with the largest college-level unit, the USF Tampa College of Arts & Sciences. Among the employees we looked at, the median average pay raise was 2.3 % per year. We can break that down. 5 % of the employees had an average pay raise of less than 1 % (and some salaries went down); this is the dark blue slice labeled "0". 35 % had an average pay raise of at least 1 % but still less than 2 %; this is the red slice labeled "1". And so on up to the 7 % who received an average pay raise of at least 6 % but less than 7 % (the lavender slice labeled "6"), followed by the 8 % who received an average raise of at least 7 % (the pink slice labeled "over"):
We now turn to the next ten largest units.
The USF Tampa College of the Arts:
The USF Tampa College of Behavioral and Community Sciences:
The USF Tampa College of Business:
The USF Tampa College of Education:
The USF Tampa College of Engineering:
The USF Health Sciences Center (those departments that are within the UFF USF Bargaining Unit):
The USF Tampa Library:
The USF College of Marine Science:
The USF Saint Petersburg Campus:
The USF Sarasota / Manatee Campus:
About these "averages": The average raise is the raise which, if an employee had received that raise each year, the result would have been the same net increase in salary over those four years. For example, the contractually mandated merit raises over the last four years were, for 2015 - 16, 0 % (readers may recall that the Administration - which represents the Board - took a long time to bargain); for 2016 - 17, 3 %; for 2017 - 18, 2 %; and for 2018 - 19, 2 %. Increasing pay by these amounts would add up to an increase of 7.16 % (raises are compounded). A raise of 1.744 % each of the four years produces the same increase of 7.16 % over four years, so we call 1.744 % the average raise.
(For comparison, inflation went up 7.91 % over those same four years - for an average increase of 1.92 % per year.)
The Future of Forensics
Jason Lewis is an Instructor of Computer Science & Engineering. He received a $500 travel scholarship to attend and assist in the 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland in February, 2019. This is his account.
Thanks in part to a travel grant from the UFF USF Chapter, I was able to attend the 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, where I am a member of the Digital and Multimedia Forensic Sciences Section. At this meeting I was not only able to attend numerous presentations on results from recent research in my field, but I was also able to help facilitate a Student Academy. The student academy is an event where students are presented with case studies and have to apply skills from their discipline to find the "clues" (evidence) from the case. This academy is a great way to bring the "real world" to the students and let them experience recent cases while working with current forensic examiners/investigators.