Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 50.16
Liaison Tony Gillund
Submission Date March 27, 2013
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Purdue University
PAE-11: Sustainable Compensation

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 8.00 / 8.00 Michael Gulich
Director of University Sustainability
University Sustainability
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Total number of employees working on campus (including contractors):
15,376

Number of employees (including contractors) that the institution ensures earn sustainable compensation:
15,376

A brief description of how the institution ensures that its lowest-paid workers (including contractors, if applicable) receive sustainable compensation:

The University conducts an audit every two weeks to ensure that all Purdue employees are earning at or above minimum wage. In addition, the Office of the Vice President for Human Resources compiles a Governance Report to the Board of Trustees on Faculty and Staff Compensation annually. The intent of this report is to benchmark Purdue’s salaries and total compensation against a peer group of institutions in higher education.


The most recent year total compensation for the institution’s lowest-paid workers (including contractors, if applicable) was evaluated to ensure that it was sustainable:
2,012

The website URL where information about the institution’s compensation policies and practices is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Governance Report to the Board of Trustees on Faculty and Staff Compensation – May 2012 (https://www2.itap.purdue.edu/bot/viewDocument.cfm?id=5358)


Governance Report to the Board of Trustees on Faculty and Staff Compensation – May 2012 (https://www2.itap.purdue.edu/bot/viewDocument.cfm?id=5358)

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