Some Thoughts on Deadlines and Salaries
Keith Crank, ASA Assistant Director of Research and Graduate Education
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[T]he statistics discipline should be com-
peting for (some of) the $20,000,000
the Division of Mathematical Sciences
(DMS) at NSF plans to spend…
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The National Institutes of Health also will see reduced funding
under the continuing resolution, because they also received addi-
tional funding through a supplemental appropriations bill. But,
the continuing resolution does have additional funds for the U.S.
Census Bureau, as they continue to prepare for the decennial cen-
sus in 2010.
Academic Salary Survey
By the time this reaches you, we will have finished data collec-
tion for our academic salary survey. I want to thank everyone who
provided data. This year, we are performing a single data collec-
tion effort for salaries of both academic statisticians and academic
biostatisticians, though we will still prepare and publish separate
reports for these two groups. In addition, we are attempting to
separate the salary information for faculty from that of nonfaculty.
If successful, a third report for academic statisticians and biostatisti-
cians will result.
A number of people have expressed a desire to see analysis of sal-
ary data that looks across years. I have begun to do this for the aca-
demic salary data. At least two reports are available on the Caucus
of Academic Representatives area of the ASA’s web site, available at
www.amstat.org/education/car. (The web site also has the report on
the survey of departments of statistics and biostatistics.)
T
he deadline for submitting a proposal for a mathematical
sciences institute is February 27, 2009. This is not a lot of
One of the reports looks at the salary quartiles for each of the
time to prepare a proposal of this size and scope, but it is
subgroups at research universities. These are plotted across years
not impossible. I hope there are statistics groups out there planning
(2003–2007). On the same graph, we show how these compare to
a submission—the statistics discipline should be competing for
the change in the Consumer Price Index.
(some of) the $20,000,000 the Division of Mathematical Sciences
A second report goes back to the original data. An attempt was
(DMS) at NSF plans to spend on this competition.
made to identify information that came from departments of sta-
Of course, DMS may not have $20,000,000 available for this
tistics and compare it across years. A curve of salary versus years in
activity, as Congress has not passed an appropriations bill for NSF.
rank was fit to this data for each year for each of the ranks Assistant,
Most of the federal government will be operating under a con-
Associate, and Full Professor. Various plots are provided to compare
tinuing resolution through the change of administration. The con-
the curves across years for each rank. Some of these are adjusted for
tinuing resolution, which provides funding through early March,
the Consumer Price Index.
sets spending at the levels appropriated for fiscal year 2008. For
Comments, criticism, or suggestions for additional analysis in
NSF, that will actually result in a decrease, because the continuing
these reports are welcome.
resolution does not include the supplemental appropriations NSF
To contact me, send an email to
keith@amstat.org. Questions
received in 2008.
or comments about this article, as well as suggestions for future
articles, are always welcome. n
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