{"id":603,"date":"2013-03-09T18:42:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/?p=603"},"modified":"2013-03-09T18:42:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T16:42:12","slug":"the-matter-of-money-and-the-weather-more-on-mobility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/2013\/03\/09\/the-matter-of-money-and-the-weather-more-on-mobility\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MATTER OF MONEY (AND THE WEATHER): MORE ON MOBILITY<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

My previous post (sorry it was so long) leads to this second post on teacher mobility, also connected with the Wert report. El Diario Monta\u00f1\u00e9s<\/em>, published an article on 24 February with the title \u201cRector UAB: el sueldo de los docentes es poco competitivo para atraer talento\u201d (http:\/\/www.eldiariomontanes.es\/agencias\/20130224\/mas-actualidad\/sociedad\/rector-uab-sueldo-docentes-poco_201302241101.html<\/a>). In this article, Ferran Sancho, interviewed by EFE, explains that \u201cSunshine and good weather\u201d are not enough to attract major international talent to our universities, considering that the basic salary for a tenured teacher is only 33,000 euros a year (with no complements). Apparently, Dutch university teachers make twice more (though if you check the website http:\/\/www.prospects.ac.uk\/higher_education_lecturer_salary.htm<\/a>, you\u2019ll see that in Britain, the salary for lecturers ranges from 35 to 46,0000 euros at junior level).<\/p>\n

Sancho claims that a full professor may be making 80,000 a year (after taxes) by the time s\/he retires at 70. I\u2019ll add that this might be so after being tenured for 40 years at least and having completed all research assessments to satisfaction (5 or 6). I doubt that many full professors even reach 65,000 euros. Apparently, Sancho, just appointed president of the Asociaci\u00f3n Catalana de Universidades P\u00fablicas (ACUP) plans to run a study comparing retributions for all Spanish universities. I\u2019m not sure what for, as we already know that Catalan teachers get less money than anyone else and also that for those of us living in ultra-expensive Barcelona our salaries are a joke. We\u2019re just glorified blue-collar workers.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll complete the figures: 33,000 \u2013 27% taxes = 24090 : 14 = 1720. Basically, a tenured junior university teacher makes less than 2,000 or around 2,000 euros a month, since soon we start getting complements for antiquity (they do not count for pensions). This after, on average, 10 years or more of gruelling preparation for tenure. The supposedly very-well paid full professor would make 4,200 at the most. This might seem a lot but please remember that very few tenured teachers ever become full professors and, so, most make around 2,500 or less even after 20 years (or more) teaching. Also remember that our salaries are not only frozen but also decimated by both the Catalan and the Spanish governments, who have decided to rob us of part of our wages (the June and December \u2018extra wages\u2019 are not a bonus but a deferred payment for our work each semester).<\/p>\n

\u201cSunshine and good weather\u201d are not enough for us, national \u2018talent\u2019, either. As happens with the medicine doctors, we are all vocational professionals only too happy to have the chance to work at something we love doing. This is why we accept salaries that do not compensate at all for the many years of preparation and the hard work we need to do every day. Having said that, I\u2019ll finish by stressing what students often ignore: it\u2019s much, much worse in the case of associates, now 50% of our staff, paid less than 800 euros a month for teaching 3 subjects \u2013what many full professors do\u2013 and doing in addition much research that benefits all, as they patiently wait years and years for tenure that never materialises…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My previous post (sorry it was so long) leads to this second post on teacher mobility, also connected with the Wert report. El Diario Monta\u00f1\u00e9s, published an article on 24 February with the title \u201cRector UAB: el sueldo de los docentes es poco competitivo para atraer talento\u201d (http:\/\/www.eldiariomontanes.es\/agencias\/20130224\/mas-actualidad\/sociedad\/rector-uab-sueldo-docentes-poco_201302241101.html). In this article, Ferran Sancho, interviewed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,34],"tags":[408],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-teaching-tools-and-rules","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}