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Using full-time equivalent staffing data and salary schedules summarized by the National Tertiary Education Union, the note updates earlier work, highlighting where higher proportions of senior grades occur. 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In 2017, higher proportions of general staff in more senior grades could be found at the University of Technology Sydney, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, the University of Canberra, and Monash and Macquarie Universities. Similarly, based on the median salary classification across Australian universities, the universities offering the highest salaries to staff in the median classification were the University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales, Macquarie University, the University of Melbourne and Curtin University of Technology.  \nKeywords: general staff, professional staff, university salaries, non-academics (sic)  \nIntroduction  \nSeveral years ago, I did some work that identified the better-paying universities and identified those that had more of their general staff classified in relatively senior classifications (Dobson, 2009) . In one sense, this paper is an update of that work, and it has been based on data from two sources: staff numbers obtained from the Department of Education and Training, and salaries information summarised by the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) .  \nStaff expressed as ‘full-time equivalents’ (FTE) were provided in table form by the University Statistics Section of the federal Department of Education and Training. Customised tables had to be obtained because the Department’s online uCube system (accessible at [http://](http://)[ ](http://)[highereducationstatistics.education.gov.au/](highereducationstatistics.education.gov.au/)) does not provide information on general staff by level, in contrast with the more detailed provision on staff with academic appointments. It should also be noted that only staff on permanent or limited-term contracts of employment have been included, and therefore casually-employed staff have been excluded. Obtaining reliable data on casual staff is difficult, and figures for ‘actual casual’ staff are not  \navailable until year following that to which they relate.The term‘general staff’ has been used in this paper to indicate university staff not employed in academic classifications. I grew up with ‘general staff’, but these days,‘professional staff’ is also commonly used as the appropriate descriptor.  \nAs an aside, it is a pity that the government department responsible for universities continues to refer to this staff grouping as ‘non-academic’ staff (sic), thereby failing to appreciate that it is not appropriate to describe university workers in terms of what they are not. In fact, this observation could also be made about several universities, and many academic staff. There has been a reasonable amount of commentary on the inappropriate terminology in the past (see for example, Moodie, 1996; Rodan, 1997; Conway, 2000; Dobson, 2000), but it seems that the path to redemption is a slow-moving one. Of course, we should remember that academic staff are in the minority, representing about 43 per cent of the total university staff in 2017 (Department of Education and Training, 2018: Table 1.2) .  \nMost general staff at Australian universities are employed according to a schedule of levels from one to ten, generally referred to as ‘higher education worker’ (HEW) levels. Although the terminology used within an individual  \nvol. 60, no. 2, 2018 Salary diversity Ian R Dobson 77  \nA U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W  \nuniversity can differ, many describe their general staff as being classified in groups from HEW 1 to HEW 10. In addition, staff employed at some universities as trainees or apprentices (for example) are employed at ‘Below HEW 1’, and senior management staff, employed at salary ra","cbCaij21MaBFMxXV","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaij21MaBFMxXV","pdf",216622,11,"English","# Introduction\n## Distribution of staff by HEW level\n## Salary scale information sources","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of this statistical note on salary diversity?\",\"answer\":\"It updates earlier work on salaries paid to general staff in Australia’s public universities and examines the levels at which universities classify those staff.\"},{\"question\":\"Which data sources are used for the analysis?\",\"answer\":\"Staff numbers are taken from the Department of Education and Training, and salary information is summarized by the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU).\"},{\"question\":\"How does the note define “general staff” and how are they classified?\",\"answer\":\"“General staff” refers to university staff not employed in academic classifications, often also called “professional staff.” Many universities classify such staff across HEW levels from 1 to 10, with some additional categories like Below HEW 1 or Above HEW 10.\"}]","Australian Universities’ Review - Salary diversity | PDF",1792079871,28]