ol_comp: Calculate Overload Compensation for One Instructor

Description

Computes prorated overload pay and qualified credit hours for a single instructor based on course credit hours, enrollment, and institutional overload rules.

Usage

ol_comp(
  instructor_schedule,
  L = 4,
  U = 9,
  rate_per_cr = 2500/3,
  reg_load = 12,
  favor_institution = TRUE
)

Value

A tibble with course-level compensation and a human-readable summary block.

Arguments

instructor_schedule: A data frame of the instructor's courses, with columns INSTRUCTOR, ENRLD, and HRS.
L: Lower enrollment threshold for overload pay qualification (default = 4).
U: Upper limit of proration; courses with ENRLD > U get full-rate pay (default = 9).
rate_per_cr: Base overload pay per credit hour (default = 2500/3).
reg_load: Regular teaching load in credit hours (default = 12).
favor_institution: Logical: if TRUE (default), prioritizes high-enrollment courses for regular load.

Details

If favor_institution = TRUE (default), the function assigns high-enrollment qualified courses to the regular load first, resulting in lower compensation because only low-enrollment courses are left for overload pay — this favors the institution.

If favor_institution = FALSE, the function assigns low-enrollment qualified courses to the regular load first, preserving high-enrollment courses for compensation — this favors the instructor.

Note: This function assumes that instructor_schedule is already filtered for one instructor. Use get_instructor_schedule() to extract an instructor’s schedule using flexible, case-insensitive pattern matching (regex supported, e.g., "smith|jones").