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Average Salaries of Full-Time Instructional Staff at For-Profit Colleges, by Gender and Carnegie Classification, 2015-16

Almanac 2017
August 13, 2017

Average salaries for all full-time staff members with faculty status exceeded $50,000 in only five of 25 types of for-profit institutions in 2015-16. The greatest disparity between men’s and women’s salaries was found at two-year technology-related schools, where female faculty members earned only 84 percent of what men did.

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Average salaries for all full-time staff members with faculty status exceeded $50,000 in only five of 25 types of for-profit institutions in 2015-16. The greatest disparity between men’s and women’s salaries was found at two-year technology-related schools, where female faculty members earned only 84 percent of what men did.


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Average salaries

Carnegie classificationAllMen’s salaryWomen’s salaryWomen’s salary as a percentage of men’s
Doctoral universities: moderate research activity $56,587 $58,047 $55,734 96.0%
Master’s: larger programs $46,682 $47,154 $46,091 97.7%
Master’s: medium programs $48,045 $47,217 $48,958 103.7%
Master’s: smaller programs $64,425 $67,025 $62,194 92.8%
Baccalaureate colleges: diverse fields $48,574 $49,799 $47,309 95.0%
Baccalaureate/associate: mixed $42,985 $42,852 $43,054 100.5%
Baccalaureate/associate: associate dominant $39,444 $39,206 $39,626 101.1%
Associate: high transfer; high nontraditional students $43,943 $44,616 $43,868 98.3%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; high traditional students $41,707 $43,183 $40,039 92.7%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; mixed traditional/nontraditional students $38,904 $40,229 $37,019 92.0%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; high nontraditional students $34,684 $36,592 $32,871 89.8%
Associate: high career and technical; high traditional students $32,089 $32,137 $32,028 99.7%
Associate: high career and technical; mixed traditional/nontraditional students $36,558 $37,030 $36,027 97.3%
Associate: high career and technical; high nontraditional students $36,358 $37,905 $35,591 93.9%
Special-focus 2-year: health professions $42,320 $41,289 $42,676 103.4%
Special-focus 2-year: technology-related schools $36,199 $36,812 $30,974 84.1%
Special-focus 2-year: arts and design $39,436 $40,519 $37,698 93.0%
Special-focus 2-year: other fields $38,298 $40,718 $36,801 90.4%
Special-focus 4-year: health-professions schools $52,547 $55,509 $51,699 93.1%
Special-focus 4-year: technical-professions schools $46,212 $45,050 $48,170 106.9%
Special-focus 4-year: business and management schools $56,449 $59,137 $53,438 90.4%
Special-focus 4-year: arts, music, and design schools $48,254 $49,283 $46,675 94.7%
Special-focus 4-year: law schools $84,343 $88,741 $80,809 91.1%
Special-focus 4-year: other special-focus institutions $43,781 $44,121 $42,971 97.4%
No classification $38,087 $36,638 $39,080 106.7%

Note: Data cover full-time instructional staff members at degree-granting two-year and four-year for-profit institutions in the United States that are eligible to participate in Title IV financial-aid programs. Summary data are given for average salaries within each Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Classifications with fewer than 10 full-time instructional staff members were excluded. Health-professions schools do not include medical schools. Technical-professions schools do not include engineering schools. The salaries are adjusted to a standard nine-month work year, and averages are weighted. More-detailed institutional and summary faculty-salary data can be viewed online at data.chronicle.com.

Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data

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A version of this article appeared in the August 18, 2017, issue.
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