Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 47.92
Liaison Sara McIntyre
Submission Date June 20, 2013
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Sewanee - The University of the South
PAE-11: Sustainable Compensation

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 8.00 / 8.00 Amy Turner
Director of Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability
Office of Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability
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Total number of employees working on campus (including contractors):
617

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Number of employees (including contractors) that the institution ensures earn sustainable compensation:
617

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A brief description of how the institution ensures that its lowest-paid workers (including contractors, if applicable) receive sustainable compensation:
We do a survey each year of wages for particular jobs and check the cost of living wage for Franklin County as well as Nashville and Chattanooga. At that point we determine if we need to adjust our hourly rates for non-exempt. Which we adjusted drastically last year by raising the entry level wage to 9.15/hour from 8.19. We do not ensure anything but offer employment with these wages and the employee is free to accept or not.

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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

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The website URL where information about the institution’s compensation policies and practices is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Using the MIT Living Wage calculator, all of our employees receive a living wage as a single parentless family unit. Other factors cannot be calculated in or are not known.

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