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[jacobi1804]

I'm in a renewable, non-research department position focused on teaching and undergraduate affairs.  The grapevine has it that I'll be asked to become Director of Undergraduate Studies next year.  I'm looking forward to the new opportunities and responsibilities, but I would also appreciate a commensurate raise in compensation.

I looked at Chronicle figures but I can't find any that single out raises for faculty roles like this.  Do you have any advice on what it would be appropriate to ask for? 

[seniorscholar]

Standard at my university for all positions within a department except chair of a largish department (who gets a real chair stipend) is course release(s) -- when I was DUS (and later DGS), my load went from 2-2 to 1-1; when someone who is not graduate faculty does the DUS job the load goes from 3-2 to 2-2 (yes, they get screwed, but they're not expected to be producing research every year as graduate faculty are).

IF the position requires presence on campus during the summer either for the entire summer session or for a month or six weeks at certain times (for advising, placement exams, supervising summer-session faculty, etc.) there's a summer stipend that's equivalent to teaching two summer school courses each summer term.

No one, including the department chair (who serves a five-year term, while everyone else serves at the will of the chair but usually for 3 years at a stretch), gets an actual "raise." When the term is over, the salary and teaching load return to normal; although since our union contract has annual COL raises plus "merit units" of about $500 each that go to base for publication, teaching excellence, or service, the person who has been DUS or DGS generally gets 2 or 3 merit units for the last year in the position unless s/he has done a really lousy job.

[jacobi1804]

That's very informative, thanks.  I could use a teaching reduction for sure since I'm at 3-2 now. I haven't had any COLA or merit raise since I started 2 years ago.