• Assign each member of the faculty a percentile score that is determined by that faculty’s current salary, and its place in the distribution of salaries for faculty with the same rank and seniority.
• Use the annual merit rating to define a faculty member’s “target salary”
• Assume that (for a given department) faculty with an average merit rating should earn at least the 50th percentile on the national distribution. Faculty with a merit rating one standard deviation above the average should be at least at the 75th percentile
• And so on….

• Current salary
• Percentile score
• Percentile target given the merit
• Salary associated with the target percentile
• The raise required to eliminate slippage

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