Changes: Rhetoric/Composition Salaries for AY 2013-14

Revision as of 03:54, 14 March 2013

If you wish, please feel free to use this page to share information about salaries offered for positions in Rhetoric and Composition. This would be helpful to all current and future seekers. If you're willing to do this, make a note of the kind of job, the level (asst/assoc/full), the region, the kind of university, the salary, and any very significant perks/incentives (if any), male or female, and if you negotiated.

Example: "Assistant Prof TT, South, Public University, $62,500 9 month contract, + summer teaching extra, $5,500 moving, $5000 startup, female (negotiated moving expense)"

See 2009 Detailed Hiring Info (for Rhet/Comp jobs), Rhetoric / Composition 2010 Positions and Details, Rhetoric/Composition Positions and Salaries 2011-12 AND Rhetoric/Composition Salaries 2012-13 for results from the last several seasons.

Salaries for TT Jobs starting in AY 2013-14 - Asst. or Assoc. Professor of Rhet/Comp

Asst. Prof. TT, $63,800, with pay raise each year (negotiated $2500 from original offer). $3,000 moving (negotiated from $2000), $2000 start-up, $1000/yr travel funds, new computer, optional summer teaching.

Asst. Prof. TT, West (public), $67,500; $3,500 research start up; $3,500 unrestricted first year bonus; up to $2,000 moving reimbursed; $500 annual travel, optional summer and winter session teaching (at 10% base salary per course); new computer, laptop, iPad, and any reasonable software requests; female. [Negotiations: I went up on salary by $1000, asked for the maximum research startup that I offered to justify with my research estimates if needed, and ensured I would have the Adobe Creative Suite. The three hardware devices were part of the original offer package and may send me into a technology loop .]

Assistant prof TT, male, midwest public U, 2/2 teaching load, $56k, a few k in startup pay, 6k moving, 6k research, more than 1k per year research/travel. Negotiated startup pay.

Asst. Prof TT, female, South private, 4/4 teaching load, $44k, $500/year travel/research, $1k moving.

Asst. Prof TT, female ABD, South, public, 50k (negotiated), very generous travel funding, 1k moving, choice of new computer, course release.

Salaries for TT Technical/Professional Writing Positions starting in AY 2013-14

Assistant prof, female, midwest (urban area). 60K + optional summer overload and generous research stipends, 8K moving expenses and NTT position for spouse. Folks, keep that TC salary data comin'.

Assistant prof, female, south (public). $60K, very generous start-up, 6K moving, new computer, summer optional; 2/2. Tried to negotiate salary--unsuccessful.

Assistant prof, female, north (public). $65K, $2000 moving, $5000 research/start-up, new computer, no summer teaching; 2/2. Negotiated $2500 more in salary.

Assistant prof, female, south (public). $57K, no moving (state law), new computer, $500 start-up; 3/3. Salary negotiations unsuccessful.

Asst. Prof, TT, Midwest, Public University. 61K (9 month contract + summer teaching extra), 10K start-up (renewable for up to three years), 8K technology (computers, software, etc.), 3K moving expenses, and NTT position for spouse. Female, ABD.

Assistant prof, southeast (public). $70K + optional summer teaching. $7K startup summer bonus. $7K moving expenses. $2K annual research. New computer + iPad + specialty software. Male, ABD.

Salaries for WPA Positions starting in AY 2013-14

Salaries for VAP / Lecturer [non-TT] Postions starting in AY 2013-14

VAP Multi-year appointment. Southern institution. Male. 45k initial offer. Negotiated to 47k, 1k moving expenses. Sadly, request for pony was rejected.

Comments / Questions

Hey, I see a few of the posters above have negotiated startup funds. What are such funds used for in our discipline? What kinds of tactics might you take to negotiate more of them? Thanks in advance!

Uses: I likely can't anticipate all of the uses/justifications for startup or research funds but in our field they may be used for books/monographs (to stay current/build your library), to cover translation fees of primary sources, to provide nominal remuneration to interview subjects (for transportation or participation) in qualitative research, very typically it is used as a publication subvention for an anticipated book contract (and sometimes for image or other cited source permissions). As a "last resort" it can also go toward research-related travel, but my advisor said that is less desirable if there is already a set conference travel fund or at least campus-wide competitions.

Tactics: My gut is your sense is right: it would be sound to reference particulars when seeing if that amount can negotiate upward rather than just saying "I want more." I have also read that institutions sometimes bound by less ability for salary negotiation may be able to be more flexible in this area or on moving costs. Even beyond particulars, it might be a good idea to crate a very "drafty budget" of anticipated or typical research costs to be able to justify asking for more. For example, I do anticipate needing to work with a translator so I returned to my video/audio/transcripts that I possessed already and created a ballpark estimate of how many hours/words I had and what transcription and translation costs might be (based on a few queries I made to professional translation services/translators). One might also consider researching typical publication subvention amounts with publishers in our field. "Typical" permission rates are much harder, since those range very broadly based on the source. While I never submitted the draft of the translation budget, I did reference it when we discussed the startup amount.

Running average of Rhet / Comp salaries: 56K. Running average of Technical / Professional writing salaries: 62.1K.

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 ==Comments / Questions==
 Hey, I see a few of the posters above have negotiated startup funds. What are such funds used for in our discipline? What kinds of tactics might you take to negotiate more of them? Thanks in advance!
+'''Uses: '''I likely can't anticipate all of the uses/justifications for startup or research funds but in our field they may be used for books/monographs (to stay current/build your library), to cover translation fees of primary sources, to provide nominal remuneration to interview subjects (for transportation or participation) in qualitative research, '''very''' typically it is used as a publication subvention for an anticipated book contract (and sometimes for image or other cited source permissions). As a "last resort" it can also go toward research-related travel, but my advisor said that is less desirable if there is already a set conference travel fund or at least campus-wide competitions.
+'''Tactics:''' My gut is your sense is right: it would be sound to reference particulars when seeing if that amount can negotiate upward rather than just saying "I want more." I have also read that institutions sometimes bound by less ability for salary negotiation may be able to be more flexible in this area or on moving costs. Even beyond particulars, it might be a good idea to crate a very "drafty budget" of anticipated or typical research costs to be able to justify asking for more. For example, I do anticipate needing to work with a translator so I returned to my video/audio/transcripts that I possessed already and created a ballpark estimate of how many hours/words I had and what transcription and translation costs might be (based on a few queries I made to professional translation services/translators). One might also consider researching typical publication subvention amounts with publishers in our field. "Typical" permission rates are much harder, since those range very broadly based on the source. While I never submitted the draft of the translation budget, I did reference it when we discussed the startup amount.
 Running average of Rhet / Comp salaries: 56K.  Running average of Technical / Professional writing salaries: 62.1K.