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
| 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