Muhlenberg College
PA-12: Employee Compensation

Dining Services currently has 183 employees. 46 (25%) are paid above $15.78. Sodexo is the only on-site contractor that Muhlenberg utilizes. There are 183 Sodexo employees, which includes full-time, part-time, and student employees. Student employees start at $8.00 and Student Interns $10.00. To make sure its employees receive sustainable compensation, Sodexo North America’s human resources department uses a wage matrix. A wage matrix is a system where the starting wages of employees are gaged using average wages of employees of other companies with similar positions in the same geographic area. This way, Sodexo can offer competitive wages to avoid losing talent to other businesses in the industry. Also, all employees’ wages are increased by roughly 3% annually so their purchasing power can keep up with inflation.

The College has adopted a compensation philosophy, approved by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Trustees, that aims to pay competitive salaries and provide comprehensive affordable benefits to all employees. We compare salaries using CompData local survey (both state and local data) including standards within the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges(LVAIC).
Salary information:
Regular, full-time employees
Housekeeping staff are the lowest hourly paid regular full-time employees. Start rate is $11.80/hour, $24,544/year; Benefits for this position would include: health insurance coverage (with a payroll deduction within the Affordable Care Act guidelines); reimbursement of $400 of the individual $500 in-network deductible annually (all eligible employees making less than $32,000/yr get $400 of the $500 in-network deductible reimbursed); tuition scholarship plan which includes full tuition coverage for dependents to attend Muhlenberg after the employee has two years of service; employer-paid life insurance and long-term disability plans; retirement accounts funded at 10% of salary per year with no employee contribution required for all full-time employees after two years of service.
Regular, part-time employees(same)
This would be part-time LSC desk staff, $8.37/hour. Part-timers have no benefits unless working 800+ hours/year (at 800 hours they get pro-rated vacation), or 1000+ hours/year (at 1000 hours they get the college retirement contribution).
Temporary (non-regular) staff
Same pay rates as above, Temporary employees are not eligible for benefits.
Temporary (non-regular, adjunct or contingent) faculty
Part-time/temporary/adjunct faculty are paid per course, and are not eligible for benefits. An adjunct for a regular one unit class is paid $4,340/course. This exceeds the living wage on an hourly basis.
Student employees
Minimum wage

The information reported is accurate to the knowledge of:
Peter Stark, Operations Manager of Campus Dining, peterstark@muhlenberg.edu
John Pasquarello, General Manager of Campus Dining, johnpasquarello@muhlenberg.edu