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Negotiations: The Job Offer

Appointment title or titles (all special titles are typically renewable after five years rather than permanent)
Units (for joint appointment, specify fraction of appt. in each unit)
Tenure status
Starting date (January 1, September 1, etc.)
Starting salary (options: bonuses; additional time off for consulting; additional contributions to retirement account)
Living expense (housing, housing allowance, housing bonus)
Benefits (healthcare; dental; insurance; maternity leave; spousal benefits, time off)
Tuition benefit for children
Spousal job opportunities
Reimbursement of moving expense (may be capped at 10% of salary)
Travel budget (including travel for projects and for continuing education)
Facilities / Space (amount and nature of the space commitment. For a joint appointment, generally expect only one office. Check the average allocation of space in the unit – often public record).
Office furniture and computer equipment (on campus and/or at home)
Parking fees
Staff support (direct and indirect)
Nine month or twelve month appointment (or a variation)
Immigration and Naturalization contingency
Research support or continuing research support (amount, fungibility and source of start-up funds (fungibility = degree to which money can be used for different purposes). Specify length of time during which start-up funds must be used (e.g., first three years)
Research equipment
Research staff (full-time)
Graduate student fellowships
Post-doc support
Normal teaching duties in the unit(s) (option of selection of courses)
Particular teaching expectations (for joint appointment, clarify distribution of teaching responsibilities among units)
Number and source of summer ninths (number paid from general fund)
Number of course releases (and any temporal constraints on this)
Center or Institute affiliations – support for
Service expectations (committee duties)
Sabbatical – any recognition of sabbatical equity accrued elsewhere (can take the form of a Duty Off Campus Leave rather than early sabbatical)
Date by which candidate should respond
Need for candidate to resign from current position