AAUP Faculty Compensation Survey

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Compensation

Average Salary

ranges from $0 to $259,700

Average Salary Change

ranges from -14% to 16%

Average Total Compensation

ranges from $0 to $320,000

States

InstitutionCategoryState Avg. Salarysort ascending
Full Professors
 Avg. Change
Continuing Full Professors
 Count
Full Professors
 Avg. Total Compensation
Full Professors
 Salary Equity
Full Professors
Columbia University in the City of New York Doctoral NEW YORK $259,700 3.5% 766 $316,500 88.4
Stanford University Doctoral CALIFORNIA $256,100 4.7% 667 $312,600 94.7
Princeton University Doctoral NEW JERSEY $248,000 4.1% 490 $320,000 92.9
Harvard University Doctoral MASSACHUSETTS $244,300 3.4% 1 019 $305,500 92.5
University of Chicago Doctoral ILLINOIS $241,900 N/A 614 $288,900 85.7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Doctoral MASSACHUSETTS $232,200 4.4% 637 $287,600 102.0
Yale University Doctoral CONNECTICUT $230,900 4.9% 614 $278,500 94.7
University of Pennsylvania Doctoral PENNSYLVANIA $223,600 3.7% 636 $286,600 92.4
New York University Doctoral NEW YORK $218,300 2.5% 882 $290,700 89.7
Northwestern University Doctoral ILLINOIS $215,200 2.1% 647 $271,200 89.8

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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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