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March 12, 2007

Faculty Salaries Up 3.8%

This academic year is featuring better raises for most faculty members than they received last year. Data being released today by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources show a 3.8 percent increase in median salaries in 2006-7. That compares to 3.4 percent last year and 3.2 percent the year before.

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Administrators are also having a good year — their median salaries are up 4 percent, according to data released by CUPA-HR last month. As with administrators, faculty salary increases were greater at public institutions than at private institutions — a reversal from last year. For faculty salaries, the gap was 3.9 percent vs. 3.7 percent.

There are two major faculty salary surveys each year: the CUPA-HR study (which focuses on disciplines) and the American Association of University Professors (which focuses on institutional averages). The next AAUP study is due out in April.

As in past years, the CUPA-HR study found wide variations in pay rates by discipline. Law, engineering and business top the list for both public and private institutions, while the lowest paying fields vary (medicine isn’t covered as a category). Across all sectors, a full law professor earned an average of $121,301 — almost $50,000 more than a full professor of English on average. The average salary earned by a new assistant professor of engineering of $69,510 is almost $20,000 more than the average for a new assistant professor of education.

In many disciplines, the study found that new assistant professors are earning more than assistant professors on average because of the competition to attract new talent. Fields with particularly high percentages of new professors this year include area, ethnic and gender studies and the physical sciences.

Average Salaries by Discipline and Rank, 2006-7

Discipline

Full Prof

Assoc Prof

Asst Prof

New Asst Prof

Instructor

Agriculture

$82,089

$65,567

$55,614

$57,329

$41,656

Architecture

$88,652

$68,950

$55,194

$55,591

$45,289

Area, Ethnic and Cultural Studies

$91,065

$67,082

$54,414

$54,625

$41,783

Biological sciences

$82,612

$62,677

$52,510

$52,275

$41,103

Business

$98,384

$82,347

$75,835

$81,842

$51,939

Comm. and journalism

$77,307

$59,549

$50,027

$48,637

$41,230

Comm. technologies

$80,400

$60,032

$49,955

$51,721

$40,144

Computer science

$91,181

$74,780

$65,622

$68,390

$47,505

Education

$76,089

$60,276

$51,086

$50,237

$42,285

Engineering

$102,954

$79,759

$69,896

$69,510

$51,535

Engineering technologies

$78,288

$64,900

$57,542

$57,672

$44,232

English language and literature — letters

$74,040

$57,598

$47,724

$47,357

$37,573

English language and literature — general

$73,693

$56,868

$47,405

$47,006

$37,612

Family and consumer sciences

$78,255

$61,948

$51,238

$50,869

$40,320

Foreign languages

$78,279

$59,836

$49,897

$48,174

$39,137

Health professions

$84,923

$67,713

$56,756

$56,429

$48,143

History

$76,049

$58,206

$48,219

$47,145

$39,048

Law and legal studies

$121,301

$91,509

$78,294

$81,009

$61,095

Liberal arts
—general humanities

$75,029

$58,144

$48,137

$48,879

$42,894

Library science

$79,309

$60,583

$49,382

$49,044

$45,195

Mathematics

$77,963

$60,723

$51,677

$52,108

$39,377

Multi/
interdisciplinary
studies

$83,519

$63,231

$51,524

$53,730

$40,502

Natural resources

$83,644

$63,094

$53,726

$52,599

$43,619

Parks, recreation and leisure studies

$73,474

$59,352

$49,617

$50,287

$41,034

Philosophy and religious studies

$77,577

$59,290

$49,162

$47,894

$39,405

Physical sciences

$81,329

$62,031

$52,659

$52,395

$40,076

Physical sciences —chemistry

$79,790

$60,386

$51,293

$51,646

$39,789

Psychology

$76,949

$60,091

$50,722

$50,406

$41,179

Public
administration

$80,073

$62,978

$52,643

$51,928

$44,102

Security and protective services

$77,336

$61,360

$50,901

$49,237

$41,400

Social sciences

$81,501

$63,008

$52,826

$52,619

$42,019

Social sciences
—political science

$79,648

$61,247

$50,207

$50,207

$41,591

Social sciences
—sociology

$78,061

$59,919

$49,935

$49,142

$39,817

Theology and religious vocations

$66,706

$55,518

$47,310

$45,665

$39,732

Visual and performing arts

$72,940

$57,881

$47,928

$46,917

$40,148

Visual and performing arts
—music

$71,853

$56,768

$47,299

$46,212

$39,716

An executive summary of the salary report is available free and the full report may be ordered on CUPA-HR’s Web site.

— Scott Jaschik

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