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The union that represents teachers in the California State University system have issued a report criticizing administrators for allowing salaries to fall behind other education systems during the past 10 years.
About half the faculty in the California State system are part-time employees, and the average faculty member earns $45,000 a year before taxes and other deductions, according to multiple reports.
The report, titled “Race to the Bottom: CSU’s 10-Year Failure to Fund its Core Mission,” was released Tuesday.
Members of California Faculty Association claim that the average salary would have been $63,000 a year last fall if all teachers were full-time employees. As it is, Cal State teachers’ salaries are below automobile sales people and accountants, the report stated.
California State officials dismissed much of the report, saying it did not address a 1.3 percent increase in teachers’ salaries that was implemented during the 2013-14 academic year.
That raised the pay of full-time instructors by about $960 annually.
The faculty association represents about 23,000 faculty and staff throughout the California State system, the reports stated.
