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Nic Salaries Are $4,000 Higher Than Pay At Southern Idaho

Associated Press

Keeping faculty salaries at the College of Southern Idaho competitive with those in other Western states has become a priority for college administrators, who have learned instructors have fallen below average on the pay scale.

The school’s starting salary remains competitive, but its average faculty pay has fallen about $1,100 below the average of 52 colleges in the Rocky Mountain States Community College Association.

Salt Lake Community College’s Office of Business Affairs prepared the salary survey, but the College of Southern Idaho released information only about itself and group averages.

The report showed the average faculty salary at the colleges was $36,634 compared with $35,522 at the College of Southern Idaho.

North Idaho College in Coeur d’Alene, the state’s other community college, reports its average faculty salary at $39,575. That is more than $4,000 above the pay at College of Southern Idaho, a school of roughly the same size.

NIC gets more money from property taxes and puts it into salaries, said Curtis Eaton, state Board of Education member in Twin Falls.

NIC estimates it will draw $5.5 million in property taxes this year compared with an estimated $4.1 million at the College of Southern Idaho, said Keith Hasselquist, chief fiscal officer for the state board.