AAUP Faculty Compensation Survey

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Compensation

Average Salary

ranges from $55,900 to $201,700

Average Salary Change

ranges from -3% to 7%

Average Total Compensation

ranges from $0 to $251,800

States

InstitutionCategoryState Avg. Salary
Full Professors
 Avg. Change
Continuing Full Professors
 Countsort ascending
Full Professors
 Avg. Total Compensation
Full Professors
 Salary Equity
Full Professors
University of Georgia Doctoral GEORGIA $130,000 0.3% 755 $164,800 93.8
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Doctoral GEORGIA $169,300 1.2% 522 $219,400 92.7
University of Missouri-Columbia Doctoral MISSOURI $125,100 3.2% 374 $159,900 81.4
Washington University in St Louis Doctoral MISSOURI $201,700 N/A 359 $251,800 92.4
Georgia St U Doctoral GEORGIA $124,600 4.8% 286 - 77.8
Missouri State University-Springfield Master MISSOURI $84,600 0.6% 229 $111,100 96.0
Kennesaw St U Master’s GEORGIA $88,500 2.6% 218 $115,300 93.2
Georgia Southern University Doctoral GEORGIA $82,500 0.1% 203 $107,300 94.8
Saint Louis University Doctoral MISSOURI $118,500 2.5% 181 $157,900 93.1
University of Missouri-Kansas City Doctoral MISSOURI $110,500 1.6% 160 $143,800 80.9

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About the Data

The compensation data above are collected annually by the American Association of University Professors. Participation in the AAUP survey is optional; over 950 institutions submitted data for the 2018-19 academic year. 

The salary and compensation data cover instructional and research staff members who work full time and whose primary role (more than 50 percent) is instruction, regardless of their official faculty status. The calculations exclude part-time faculty members, medical school faculty members, professors at military institutions who are compensated on a military pay scale, those with faculty status who are primarily administrative officers, and graduate teaching assistants. Some institutions include data for professional school faculty members. 

Salary figures exclude summer teaching, stipends and other non-contracted forms of remuneration. When instructors are compensated for 11 or 12 months' work, their salaries are adjusted to a nine-month academic-year basis. Salary figures are rounded to the nearest $100. 

The compensation figure for a faculty member includes an institution's contribution to benefits as well as salary; it does not include faculty contributions. The counted benefits include retirement contributions, medical insurance, disability income protection, tuition for faculty dependents, Social Security, unemployment insurance, group life insurance, workers’ compensation insurance, and other benefits with cash value such as moving expenses and housing allowances.

"Salary Equity" refers to the ratio between the average salary for women by rank divided by the average men’s salary, times 100. For example, if an institution had an average woman’s salary for an assistant professor of $100,000 and an average man’s salary for an assistant professor of $100,000, the gender equity ratio would be at 100.0, or parity. A ratio below 100 indicates the cents on the dollar of an average woman’s salary below a man’s average salary at that rank, and a ratio above 100 indicates the average woman’s salary above a man’s average salary at that rank.

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