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Professor Salaries

  • My wife will be finishing her PhD within the next two years. I am doing a little bit of preliminary financial research on her behalf. More than likely, whe will immediately step into some sort of professorship. Is there a web site that gives professor salary information for every (most) schools (in the US)? Or, is every school, public and private, required to publish such information? We are more than likely looking at private liberal arts and graduate schools. Any information that is more specific than industry wide, nation wide "averages" would be helpful. However, in a perfect world, the answer would be a web site that lists such information as: For PhD holding Professors: Entry Level: $XX,XXX 5 Years: $YY,YYY Tenure: $ZZ,ZZZ etc... Any help at all would be great!


  • Thank you very much for accepting my suggestion as the answer to your question. I've reposted the link below, with another link to the same site that may be of interest. The Chronicle of Higher Education: AAUP Faculty Salary Survey http://chronicle.com/stats/aaup/ The Chronicle of Higher Education: What Professors Earn http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i33/33a01301.htm Regarding the matter of whether or not private schools are required to divulge faculty salaries, I have found no indication that there is a legal requirement for a private school to release this information to the public. Privately-owned businesses typically keep such statistics to themselves, since the publication of this kind of data might lead to dissatisfaction in the ranks among those who become aware that they are underpaid. I can well imagine an angry mob of assistant professors storming the administrative offices, carrying torches and chanting "Hey hey, ho ho, chickenfeed wages have got to go." Google search strategy: Google Web Search: university OR college faculty salary ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=university+OR+college+faculty+salary I hope this helps! Please let me know if anything requires clarification. Very best regards, pinkfreud


  • Would this meet your needs? http://chronicle.com/stats/aaup/


  • Thank you very much for the five stars and the nice tip! Regarding the matter of sending in spies, these days this is called "networking," and it's a standard tool among academic job-hunters, along with the torch and the pitchfork. ;-) ~Pink


  • Pink- That web site is great! I am more than happy to accept that as an answer, however, I have a brief clarification... The site you provided, although more than thorough, is not exhausitive. It is, of course, unreasonable to expect that any site could be. In particular, I noticed that it does not list many private schools (including where I did my Bachelor's degree!), although it does list many others. However, it listed every public school that I searched for. Are private schools not bound to disclose this information? Perhaps state law has an effect on this (for example, I found ALL of the private schools I searched for in Kentucky, but very few in Indiana. Thanks for your help!


  • I'll leave the question unlocked in hopes that another Researcher will be able to find something more comprehensive for you. I am not aware of a better database of professors' salaries, but I don't know everything (yet).


  • Pink- I can certainly imagine my lovely bride in an angry mob of assistant professors with a flaming torch and a pitchfork. Nonetheless, a little information ahead of time never hurts. Thank you for your help and for your thoughts on provate schools. Maybe I need to send in spies.


  • Pink- Please close the question. The web site you found me is more than thorough enough. My clarification question was more out of curiousity than in actually hunting down every single school in the country! Thanks for your help!







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    March 10th, 2010, posted by cfz