Salaries too Low - Anonymous employee Colby College Employee Review

Many salaries do not keep up with industry standards. The only way to get a significant pay increase is to threaten to leave at which time you might be given a pay increase. Annual salary increases are meager around 1.5% for top-performers. I generally wouldn't complain, but there's a dichotomy when letters go out stating tuition costs are going up 5% to keep up with cost of living increases, but pay increases for workers are much below that.