Williams College Employee Handbook

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Faculty Salaries

Procedures for Determining Salaries

In April the President recommends salaries for individual faculty members to the Board of Trustees. Salary recommendations are based on the College's goals of 1) recruiting and retaining an excellent faculty, 2) recognizing exceptional merit, and 3) maintaining equity in salaries both within and between different faculty cohorts. The criteria on which merit recommendations are based are the same as those used in determining reappointment and promotion: teaching effectiveness, scholarly activity, and contribution to the operation of the College in such areas as committee work, advising, and departmental duties.

Because the College attempts to make clear to Assistant Professors its evaluation of their work through annual feedback based on Department reports to the CAP, Assistant Professors may receive equity salary adjustments, but do not ordinarily receive merit adjustments.

Salaries for the following academic year are communicated by letter each May to continuing members of the faculty. Non-tenured members of the faculty should feel free to discuss their salary situation with either their department chair or the Dean of the Faculty; tenured faculty should see the Dean of the Faculty.

Timing of Salary Payments

The College schedules its bi-weekly payroll over a twelve-month period beginning July 1 previous to the teaching year and ending on June 30. Thus faculty members are in effect paid in advance during the months of July and August, and those faculty whose contracts expire, or who resign at the end of the academic year, are paid in full with the last salary payment in June of that year. Those who resign from the College during the summer months will return any salary payments received during July or August. Faculty who hold visiting one-semester appointments are normally paid from September through December for first semester appointments, and February through May for second-semester appointments.

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