Since I came to WMU, we have had years, including this one, where small 
amounts were awarded on the basis of merit. It's not that uncommon, and 
it's often much larger sums than we get at WMU. For example, University 
of South Florida distributes "Performance/Market" pay from a salary 
pool equal to 5% of the faculty salary base.

If you're affiliated with the NEA, you may wish to take advantage of 
their Higher Education Contract Analysis System (HECAS) to find other 
universities with collective bargaining agreements that use "pay for 
performance" instead of or in addition to uniform across the board 
salary increases:

http://www2.nea.org/he/research.html

Norm

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Norman Hawker, Associate Professor
Western Michigan University
269 387-6118
http://www.wmumea.org

On Feb 11, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Thomas Giordano wrote:

> I am a member of the collective bargaining team of my faculty union at 
> St. John’s University.  I was wondering if any of my colleagues at 
> unionized institutions were receiving annual salary increases based on 
> a “pay for performance” or “recognition pay” model rather than uniform 
> across the board salary increases for all faculty members.  I hope 
> this is an appropriate topic for discussion.  If it isn’t, please 
> disregard this message.  Thank you.
>
> Tom Giordano