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April 14, 2008
AAUP Releases 2007-08 Faculty Salary Data
The American Association of University Professors today released Where Are the Priorities? The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2007–08. Here are some highlights from the press release:
- Overall average salaries for full-time faculty rose 3.8% this year, the same as the increase reported last year. But with inflation at 4.1% percent for the year, the purchasing power of faculty salaries has declined for the third time in four years.
- The salaries paid to head football coaches at Division I-A universities are ten times as high as the salaries of senior professors.
- The gap between faculty salaries and salaries paid to administrators continues to grow.
Here are the 2007-08 average salaries for three faculty ranks:
- Full professor $103,521
- Associate professor $73,275
- Assistant professor $61,359
Here are the Top 10 schools with the highest average salaries for full professors:
- Rockefeller University $191,200
- Harvard University $184,800
- Stanford University $173,700
- Princeton University $172,200
- University of Chicago $170,800
- Yale University $165,100
- University of Pennsylvania $163,300
- Columbia University $162,500
- New York University $162,400
- California Institute of Technology $162,200
Press and blogopshere coverage:
- Chronicle of Higher Education: Gap Persists Between Faculty Salaries at Public and Private Institutions, by Richard Byrne
- Inside Higher Ed: Faculty Salaries and Priorities, by Scott Jaschik
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The salaries paid to head football coaches at Division I-A universities are ten times as high as the salaries of senior professors.
Professors have tenure and don't have to win ten football games every season.
Posted by: Woody | Apr 15, 2008 9:58:25 AM
Good point Woody! I am PhD student, so a future faculty prospect. I am frankly appalled by the fact that professors complain about money. I think they only do it so that no one takes note of the comfortable life they have with a lax gig and upper-middle class status. Fine... I am just as appalled by the money spent on athletics, not to mention the corruption that comes with success. And I am appalled by the fact that University decision makers pay themselves more and more relative to professors. But the whole system contributes to one thing, and one thing only: a monopoly-esque market for education with tuition rates through the roof! Who loses? The students! Coaches got into their trade for supposedly different reasons than educators and researchers (and most deans, etc. started out with the same ambitions in mind). Money comes with their business. Why does it HAVE to come with ours? Universities are very competitive in the US. There is competition for professors, grants and students. But the main attractions for undergrads are facilities and athletics... not professors. That doesn't happen until Grad school, and Grad students don't pay a dime. So professors technically aren't generating any revenue for the university.
The undergraduate student gets the poop end of the stick. Prices go up every year, because all coaches, faculty and administrators HAVE to get a raise proportionate to the inflation rate. And every university has its $100 million dollar project going on on the side. Tuition rates are raising ridiculously, and the families of students have no choice but to go in debt to pay them, because the college diploma has become the high school diploma of the 70s and 80s. If you don't have one, you will probably get stuck in the cycle of poverty that plagues more uneducated Americans than we'd like to admit.
I think professors of all people should take a stand. Do you know what professors in Europe get paid? Why do you think they are all for adopting an Anglo-American system? The research institution works wonders for a Grad program...
But that concept coupled with the apparent notion that universities and colleges are "selling" an invaluable product, instead of "educating" is the root and manifestation of so many problems in this country.
TAKE A STAND!
Posted by: Mike | Apr 28, 2008 11:45:37 PM
