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FACULTY SALARY PLAN
DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE - CLINICAL FACULTY

JULY 1, 1948

Head of the Department of Surgery and Gynecology: salary from the University $10,000,
plus $5,000 guaranteed from departmental earnings - total $15,000. Fees from limited
private practice credited to departmental earnings.

Head of the Department of Internal Medicine: salary from the University $10,000,
plus $5,000 guaranteed from departmental earnings - total $15,000. Fees from
limited private practice credited to departmental earnings.

Salary scale of other faculty members, exclusive of those in the Departments of
Clinical Pathology, Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, where special arrangements
obtain, is shown below.


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ANNUAL COMPENSATION 
Basic
Salary
 
Limit from
Private
Practice
 
Total  INTERVAL IN
CALENDAR
MONTHS
BETWEEN STEPS
 
INCREASE IN
ANNUAL RATE
 
INSTRUCTOR 
Basic salary not to exceed $3,000. 
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 
$3,000  $ 5,000  $ 8,000  12  $ 750 
3,000  5,750  8,750  12  750 
3,000  6,500  9,500  12  750 
3,000  7,250  10,250  12  750 
3,000  8,000  11,000  --  --- 
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 
4,000  8,000  12,000  18  1,000 
4,000  9,000  13,000  18  1,000 
4,000  10,000  14,000  18  1,000 
4,000  11,000  15,000  18  1,000 
4,000  12,000  16,000  --  ----- 
PROFESSOR 
5,000  15,000  20,000  --  ----- 

The University does not guarantee any of the income over and above the basic salary.

All professors of grades Full, Associate, and Assistant are required to contribute
20 per cent of current earnings from private practice for running expenses of their
respective departments, including support of research.

Fifty per cent of the annual surpluses above ceilings from private practice earnings
after all departmental expenses for operation and research, as approved by the Dean,
have been paid, is to be allowed to accumulate and remain intact, to be placed in a
common fund from which to draw for the improvement and development of the Medical School
as a whole.

The budgets of all departments must be approved by the Dean of the Medical School. All
financial transactions must clear through the Office of the Bursar and be subject to
pre-audit.

The salaries of all employees of medical departments other than doctors are to be brought
in line with the State Classification Plan for such employees.