News & Views item - March 2011

 

Table of Average US Faculty Salaries. (March 9, 2011)

The Chronicle of Higher Education has published a table of current average academic salaries in the United States. The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources released the data for salary levels at 812 four-year public and private institutions in the 2010-11 academic year.

 

The Chronicle of Higher Education notes that: "At public colleges, only assistant professors who started their jobs in 2010-11 received higher pay than did such faculty members in the previous year, according to the survey results. Those professors received an average of 1.4 percent more this year than the same group did last year. Pay for other faculty ranks was flat. In contrast, faculty members across all academic ranks at private institutions received increases of at least 1 percent."

 

Perhaps it says something about US society that the most highly paid professors are those in Legal professions and studies, $134,162 while those at the bottom of the heap are professors of Theology and religious vocations, $74,267 and the Visual and performing arts, $79,768.

 

However, the Physical sciences do come in higher than Philosophy and religious studies which are, nevertheless just above Mathematics and statistics: $89,280, $85,073 and $84,942 respectively.