A study of job satisfaction of community college faculty with level of education, academic rank, and salary as predictor

The main purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between level of education, academic rank and salary, and job satisfaction of full-time community college faculty. For this purpose, the writer measured job satisfaction using the Job Descriptive Index (JDI), which had six subscales--work, pay, promotion, supervision, coworkers, and job in general--and identified demographic characteristics of the faculty.;The study was done at four community colleges located in the State of Ohio in March-April, 1989. From 300 selected full-time faculty, 204 persons (68%) responded to the questionnaires sent.;The results of the study included: (1) the proportion of variance in satisfaction with pay explained by level of education, academic rank and salary was significant; (2) the increment in variance of satisfaction with pay accounted for by salary after level of education and academic rank had been taken into account was significant; (3) the proportion of variance in satisfaction with promotion accounted for by level of education, academic rank and salary was significant; (4) the relationship between academic rank and satisfaction with promotion, after controlling level of education and salary, was significant; (5) the proportion of variance in satisfaction with supervision contributed by level of education, academic rank and salary was significant; (6) the unique contribution of level of education on satisfaction with supervision beyond academic rank and salary was significant; (7) the association between gender and satisfaction with pay was significant; (8) the relationship between race and satisfaction with coworkers was significant; and (9) college location was significantly related to satisfaction with pay, satisfaction with promotion, satisfaction with supervision, and satisfaction with job in general.;The major conclusions reached were: (1) level of education, academic rank and salary were related to job satisfaction in three aspects: pay, promotion and supervision; and (2) there were three rival factors--gender, race and college location--which also had impact on particular domains of job satisfaction.