Each year, all public sector organizations in Nova Scotia are required to publicly report the names and salaries of all employees whose compensation (salary, benefits and pension) exceeds $100,000. The report is for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2021.
Dalhousie鈥檚 report for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2021 is now available to view on the Government of Nova Scotia鈥檚 website.
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Details of the report
There are 1,108 Dalhousie faculty and administrative staff whose compensation totaled $100,000 or more in 2020-2021, an increase of 42 individuals over last year鈥檚 report. Of these, 923 (83.3%) are faculty, while the remaining 185 (16.7%) are administrators or senior university staff (with no academic affiliation).
Salaries at the University generally increase each year, as the University鈥檚 collective agreements and contracts are designed to take cost-of-living increases into account. Given the COVID-19 pandemic and the fiscal restraints that were necessary, senior administrators鈥� salaries were frozen in 2020, and no increase will be applied for this time period.
In 2021, new collective agreements were reached with Dalhousie Faculty Association (DFA) and the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union (NSGEU) Local 77, which resulted in a one percent salary increase effective July 1, 2020, and 1.25 percent effective July 1, 2021, for both employee groups. Non-unionized employees (DPMG, etc.) were given the same salary adjustments in June 2021.
鈥淲e are one of the largest employers in Atlantic Canada and enrolment is growing. We have more employees on the list due to our sheer size,鈥� says Gitta Kulczycki, vice-president, finance and administration.
鈥淚n order to attract and retain the best people as outlined in our new Strategic Plan, Third-Century Promise, we remain committed to offering competitive salaries that reflect employees鈥� contributions to the university and compare well with other universities,鈥� adds Kulczycki. 鈥淲e are the only U-15 leading research-intensive university in Atlantic Canada and we often need to recruit for researchers, faculty and staff across North America and internationally.鈥�
President Deep Saini received compensation this year of $492,001. The president鈥檚 salary increases each year based on the review and recommendations of the Board of Governors. Dr. Saini鈥檚 contract is public and is available on our website.
How Dal compares
According to Statistics Canada data for 2019/2020 (the latest year comparative data is available) the average salary of full-time teaching staff in Canada was $132,586. Dalhousie鈥檚 average salary for full-time teaching staff (including deans and medical/dental faculty) sits at $141,343. Dalhousie benchmarks its academic salaries against a group of comparator research-intensive universities across Canada to ensure its salaries are competitive to continue to recruit and retain excellent faculty.
The most current data available from the Canadian Association of University Business Officers (CAUBO) for 2018- 2019 show Dalhousie鈥檚 administrative spending at 6.4 per cent of total expenses. Among the U15 group of universities, Dalhousie鈥檚 administrative costs are the second lowest.
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