The University of Georgia is now down near the bottom of faculty salaries among comparable schools. Only one of UGA’s 15 peer institutions has a lower average salary for the most experienced professors, according to the Athens Banner-Herald. In the past 8 to 12 years, the university has fallen victim to what is called salary compression, where raises have not kept pace with inflation and industry standards.
Professors’ pay scales have fallen so far behind that U-G-A is losing important faculty members like Pulitzer Prize-winner Ed Larson and Eve Troutt-Powell, who won the MacArthur Genius Award. Former Governor Zell Miller gave professors a series of raises to combat the problem, but salaries have languished during the tenures of Governors Roy Barnes and Sonny Perdue.
Professors’ pay scales have fallen so far behind that U-G-A is losing important faculty members like Pulitzer Prize-winner Ed Larson and Eve Troutt-Powell, who won the MacArthur Genius Award. Former Governor Zell Miller gave professors a series of raises to combat the problem, but salaries have languished during the tenures of Governors Roy Barnes and Sonny Perdue.
