Merit Pay in Structured and Unstructured Salary Systems

Abstract

about the characteristics of faculty salary systems, even though considerable numbers of colleges and universities take pride in using the term to describe their approach to rewarding faculty members. This article will try not only to put merit pay in the context of two quite different salary systems in higher education, but also to emphasize that merit must be viewed from two distinctly different vantage points. It will then point out how assessments of individual merit and dif-