The American Association of University Professors today released It’s Not Over Yet: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2010-11:
The overall increase in salary level … was 1.4% between 2009–10 and 2010–11. This is barely higher than the overall change reported last year, when we described it as “the lowest year-to-year change recorded in the fifty years of this comprehensive survey.” It seems that this year has been just as tough as the previous one on full-time faculty salaries. The … change in average salary at public institutions was lower (0.9%) than the change in private-independent (2.1%) or religiously affiliated (1.8%) institutions.
Among the many interesting charts and tables is this distribution of faculty salaries at doctoral institutions:
The Chronicle of Higher Education has extensive coverage of the AAUP report:
- AAUP Salary Data (search tool)
- Salary Explorer (search tool)
- Distribution of Average Faculty Salaries, 2010-11
- Faculty Experience Doesn’t Always Pay: As Annual Raises Lag, Professors Look Askance at Salaries for New Hires
- Faculty Salaries Vary by Institution Type, Discipline
Inside Higher Ed also covers the AAUP report in Losing Ground on Salaries, with these charts detailing the Ten Schools with the highest faculty salaries:
Top Private Universities in Faculty Salaries for Full Professors, 2010-11
University Average Salary 1. Harvard University $193,800 2. Columbia University $191,400 3. University of Chicago $190,400 4. Stanford University $188,400 5. Princeton University $186,000 6. Yale University $177,100 7. New York University $175,900 8. University of Pennsylvania $175,100 9. California Institute of Technology $171,500 10. Northwestern University $169,500 Top Public Universities in Pay for Full Professors, 2010-11
University Average Salary 1. New Jersey Institute of Technology $158,700 2. University of California at Los Angeles $153,700 3. University of California at Berkeley $149,100 4. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor $146,900 5. University of Maryland at Baltimore $144,800 6. Rutgers University at Newark $144,700 7. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $143,300 8. Rutgers University at New Brunswick $142,700 9. SUNY Brooklyn Health Sciences Center $142,100 10. Georgia Institute of Technology $140,400 Top 10 Liberal Arts Colleges in Salaries for Full Professors
College Average Salary 1. Wellesley College $146,100 2. Claremont McKenna College $145,200 3. Barnard College $140,200 4. Amherst College $137,200 5. Pomona College $135,100 6. Harvey Mudd College $132,100 7. Williams College $132,000 8. Wesleyan University $130,200 9. Smith College $130,000 10. Colgate University $129,000
- New York Times, Survey Finds Small Increase in Professors’ Pay
