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Compensation & Benefits Committee

Charge

Working closely with the Provost’s office, the Senate Committee on Compensation and Benefits will further knowledge about faculty compensation and benefits, identify and/or develop resources to assist faculty in learning about compensation and benefits, and report to the Senate when issues of concern arise. The Committee will catalog, foster an understanding of, and seek to understand differing approaches to compensation and benefits across schools and will be a resource to faculty councils in understanding distinctions between university and school-level domains in relation to compensation and benefits.

Meetings: Contact committee chair for the date/locations of the committee meetings.

Specific Charges for the 2024-25 Academic Year

The Senate Compensation and Benefits Committee is tasked with the following charges:

  1. Salary Transparency. The committee will continue to monitor the information that School and department/unit administrators throughout the university share with their faculty following the annual salary process and work with Faculty Councils to establish best practices for these communications. The Committee will evaluate whether schools are implementing Senate Resolution 22-23-02 by sharing the faculty salary ranges they are required to provide to individuals under SB 1162.
  2. Other compensation issues. The committee will also consider additional issues that are brought up in internal conversations with Faculty Council chairs, including (a) compensation issues relating to adjunct faculty and (b) faculty composition issues and their relation to pay/benefits differences across faculty types (e.g., adjunct vs. part-time vs. full-time RTPC). The committee will report to the Senate when issues of concern arise.

Co-Chairs

Paul Adler, padler@marshall.usc.edu, Marshall School of Business

T.J. McCarthy

T.J. McCarthy, tjmccart@usc.edu, Price School of Public Policy

Committee members

Reports