Chronicle: Faculty Salaries Rise by 3.4%; Law Professors Still Earn the Most

Interesting article in this morning's Chronicle of Higher Education:  Faculty Salaries Rise by 3.4%; Law Professors Still Earn the Most, by Scott Smallwood:

Faculty salaries rose 3.4% this year, just a little more than last year, according to a survey by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. Salaries at private institutions increased 3.7%, while those at public institutions rose 3.1%....

Law professors continue to lead the list. According to the survey, full professors in the field earn an average annual salary of $136,634. Even new assistant professors in law make nearly $80,000 a year. That is about the same average salary that full professors in history earn. New assistant professors in history average about $45,000....

The survey, which reports salaries for 2005-6, includes responses from 844 institutions and covers almost 226,000 professors.

Here are the average salaries by rank for ten disciplines:

Field	Prof	Assoc Prof	Ass’t Prof	Instructor
Business	$102,702	$84,895	$78,151	$49,271
Computer & Info Science	$98,705	$78,944	$69,178	$46,672
Education	$78,179	$60,615	$50,296	$40,344
Engineering	$107,961	$80,206	$70,019	$49,592
English	$76,413	$57,921	$47,249	$34,712
History	$80,706	$59,470	$47,994	$38,030
Law	$136,634	$98,430	$81,005	$56,667
Library Science	$77,583	$65,296	$47,972	$41,059
Math	$84,059	$61,647	$51,547	$37,761
Philosophy	$82,030	$59,429	$48,162	$37,906

For further coverage, see Faculty Salaries Up 3.4%, Inside Higher Ed.