Dear All:
Just before the Holiday break, I asked managers at public U.S.
Universities about how the salary of the primary manager/director is
funded. Many asked for a summary of the results. I apologize for my
colleagues at non-U.S. institutions (and industry), but I'm unfamiliar
how things work in other locations around the world (so I wouldn't know
how to include those results).
Many responses included a detailed explanation of how things are done,
and there is a lot of variety, especially at those places at which the
manager's salary is not a 100% hard-money, budgeted salary line. I
decided to evaporate the data to the bare essentials, and I even made
some pie-charts to visualize the results. These can be found at
http://chemnmr.colorado.edu/ammrl/surveys.html .
I will summarize here also. I received 47 responses from public
universities in the U.S. Out of the 47:
At 36 of the 47 Universities, the primary manager/director salary is
fully state-funded as a regular (budgeted) salary-line. No user-fees
are used to recover salary costs for the primary manager. Some of these
institutions do use user-fees to recover salary costs for other facility
staff.
6 of the 47 responses indicated that some (less than 50%) of the primary
manager's salary is charged to user-fees. It wasn't always clear if the
other fraction was "hard-money" or soft-money (i.e. from grants or
return of indirect costs from grants).
5 of the 47 responses indicated that over 50% of the primary manager's
salary is charged to user-fees. One of my pie-charts breaks this down
further (as a percentage of total salary).
Only one of the 47 indicated that 100% of the manager's salary is
charged to user-fees.
I don't know if this will help anyone, but it seems that many of us are
under the proverbial microscope as budgetary belts get tightened. I
hope some of you find this information useful in your discussions or
negotiations with your respective institutions.
Happy 2003 to everyone!
-Rich Shoemaker
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Richard K. Shoemaker, Ph.D.
NMR Facility Director
University of Colorado at Boulder
Phone: (303) 492-7062 Fax: (303) 492-5894
E-Mail: Richard.Shoemaker_at_Colorado.edu
Received on Fri Jan 03 2003 - 17:57:31 MST