ABSTRACT
Higher education institutions are deeply affected by their political, social, and cultural environments. Situated in a social democratic society, Norwegian universities and colleges have stronger traditions for implementing egalitarian institutional policy measures than those in many other countries (Vabø and Aamodt 2009). This also applies to academic salaries, but over the last two decades market considerations and research achievements have increasingly affected wage policies. While all professors earlier had the same salary independent of discipline, seniority, research performance, and market value, there is now much more leeway for individual differentiation.
