Tom Fuentes to inspect faculty salaries

The October meeting of the SOCCCD board of trustees will occur on Monday, Oct. 26. (The closed session is at 5:00 p.m.; the open session starts at 6:00.)

As usual, the meeting will be held in the "Ronald Reagan Board of Trustees Room," which is attached to the Health Sciences Building, Saddleback College.

Item 7.5 concerns “Salaries of College Professors.” Reference is made to Exhibit A.

You’ll recall that Mr. Fuentes, a fellow who contemns district faculty, requested this information two or three months ago.

Exhibit A explains that this report is “a comparison of the faculty salaries at SOCCCD with those of other institutions of higher education in OC…."

Below is the main part of the graph that appears there:

Exhibit A explains that the “last column is entitled, 'All', which represents the average of actual salaries paid to all faculty members.”

As you can see, according to this report, average salaries (at OC community colleges) are as follows:

NOCCCD -- $102,816

CCCD -- $93,681
SOCCCD -- $92,785
RSCCD -- $90,464

Our district's full-time faculty have the 3rd highest salaries of the four districts.

Salaries at the NOCCCD are more than $10,000 higher than those of the SOCCCD.