The Features,Problem and Inspirations of Faculty Performance-based Salary System in American Colleges and Universities

The faculty salary system combines performance-based salary system with annual salary system in American colleges and universities.Its main features are: high degree of marketization;much attention on work performance;overall high level salary but a large disparity in individual salary and sound legal system.These characteristics not only have kept the university more attractive to high-level professionals and raised their work efficiency,but also brought about many problems.This system has provided beneficial reference and enlightenment for faculty salary system reform in Chinese colleges and universities: the market regulating based on faculty's performance should be restricted;faculty salary in colleges and universities should keep a high level external competitivity;the internal competitivity among teachers should be moderated and a sound coordination mechanism especially legal system for faculty's benefits should be built.