UW's faculty salaries have fallen from second place among
     Ontario's big universities last year to fifth this year,
     according to figures prepared at the University of Western
     Ontario.
 
          The drop is smaller according to UW's own office of
     operations analysis: from second place to third. It all
     depends on how you do the calculations.
 
          Province-wide salary calculations are of vital
     importance at Western, where the salary formula requires a
     special pay increase if UWO salaries aren't up to the
     average paid at the ten major universities in the province.
     But they're also of interest at Waterloo, where faculty
     association president Dr. Gordon Andrews is drawing
     attention to them.
 
          "Although some people would have you think otherwise,"
     he writes in the March issue of the faculty association's
     Forum@, "the faculty salary settlement at UW last year was
     restrained significantly."
 
          Waterloo has generally ranked second behind the
     University of Toronto. In 1990-91 and again in 1991-92,
     McMaster was third in the province.
 
          But this year Waterloo has fallen to fifth place behind
     Toronto, Guelph, Windsor and McMaster, according to the way
     UWO's faculty association calculates things.
 
          The UWO averages are calculated from Statistics Canada
     data.  They include full, associate and assistant professors
     other than those in medical and dental schools. Not included
     are faculty members, such as department heads and deans, who
     receive stipends for administrative duties on top of their
     normal pay as professors.
 
          The figures for 1990-91 show Toronto's average faculty
     salary as $75,984; Waterloo, $71,365; McMaster, $70,345.
 
          For 1991-92: Toronto, $80,240; Waterloo, $76,288;
     McMaster, $75,679.
 
          For 1992-93: Toronto, $85,537; Guelph, $79,393;
     Windsor, $78,781; McMaster, $78,427; Waterloo, $78,298.
 
          For UW, that amounts to a 6.9 per cent increase in the
     average in 1991, and a 2.6 per cent increase in 1992.
 
          The office of operations analysis last week provided
     data calculated in the way that's usually used for salary
     negotiations at UW -- although there are no salary
     negotiations going on this year.  The figures do include
     department heads (but not deans) and the stipends they
     receive.  The result of including those people is to
     increase Toronto's average figure by about $800 a year,
     McMaster's by $1,200 and Waterloo's by $1,400.
 
          The figures from operations analysis show Waterloo in
     second place behind Toronto and ahead of McMaster in 1990-91
     and 1991-92, but fallen to third place in 1992-93 behind
     Toronto and Guelph, while McMaster is in fourth.
 
          The averages for 1990-91: Toronto, $76,696; Waterloo,
     $72,555; McMaster, $71,805.
 
          For 1991-92: Toronto, $81,024; Waterloo, $77,651;
     McMaster, $76,966.
 
          And for 1992-93: Toronto, $86,384; Guelph, $80,564;
     Waterloo, $79,695; McMaster, $79,643.
 
          There's a third way to calculate UW averages, the one
     used in the university budget each year. That arrangement
     includes both department heads and deans, but not the
     dollars of the stipends they receive.  The averages:
     1990-91, $72,204; 1991-92, $76,854; 1992-93, $78,988.