what is shadow salary
Shadow Salaries. Shadow salary arrangements are created to protect salary paid from General Purpose Operating Funds (GPOF) for a full-time faculty member in the tenure stream and will normally arise in the following circumstances:1  when an outside funding agency agrees to cover a part of a faculty memberâs GPOF salary,his procedure allows for the tracking of GPOF slots for these faculty members to ensure that the funding is available on his or her full-time return to GPOF or to the home department (for administrative positions). Shadow salaries should be set up in advance of the salary distribution.