Empirical Research on the Influencing Factors of College Teacher's Salary Satisfaction - Taking Private Colleges in Sichuan Province as an Example

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to investigate the current satisfaction of college teachers with their salaries; to judge the influencing factors of college teachers' satisfaction with their salaries according to the relevant analysis results; to summarize the factors influencing college teachers' satisfaction with their salaries. This qualitative research adopted questionnaire survey to collect data, selected six universities in Chengdu through stratified sampling, and then used simple random sampling to select 300 teachers to distribute questionnaires, and recovered 264 valid questionnaires. Finally, statistical analysis and regression analysis were used to analyze the current situation of private university teachers' salary satisfaction and the factors affecting private university salary satisfaction. Major results include, the overall salary satisfaction of teachers in private universities in Sichuan is relatively low; the factors affecting the overall salary satisfaction of university teachers mainly include gender, age, school type, external fairness and internal fairness;  there is a positive correlation between the age, school type and salary fairness satisfaction of university teachers. The older the university teachers, the higher their salary fairness satisfaction; the better the school, the higher their salary fairness satisfaction.