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Average Salaries of Full-Time Instructional Staff at HBCUs and Tribal Colleges, by Rank and Gender, 2015-16

Almanac 2017 August 13, 2017

Among full-time instructional staff over all, tribal colleges had about the same proportion of women in 2015-16 as historically black colleges and universities did — just under half. Tribal colleges, however, had lower female representation than HBCUs did among professors, associate professors, and assistant professors. Tribal colleges — where “instructors” predominated — had relatively few staff members of either sex at the three professorial ranks. At both HBCUs and tribal colleges, women’s average earnings were very close to men’s at the rank with the greatest number of employees.

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Among full-time instructional staff over all, tribal colleges had about the same proportion of women in 2015-16 as historically black colleges and universities did — just under half. Tribal colleges, however, had lower female representation than HBCUs did among professors, associate professors, and assistant professors. Tribal colleges — where “instructors” predominated — had relatively few staff members of either sex at the three professorial ranks. At both HBCUs and tribal colleges, women’s average earnings were very close to men’s at the rank with the greatest number of employees.


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Historically black colleges and universities

Faculty rankTotalMenWomenShare of womenAvg. salary for allAvg. men’s salaryAvg. women’s salaryWomen’s pay as a % of men’s
Professor 2,605 1,800 805 30.9% $68,922 $69,363 $68,670 99.0%
Associate professor 3,700 2,054 1,646 44.5% $58,014 $58,419 $57,843 99.0%
Assistant professor 3,957 1,871 2,086 52.7% $53,586 $53,757 $53,334 99.2%
Instructor 1,671 678 993 59.4% $43,407 $42,570 $43,587 102.4%
Lecturer 650 283 367 56.5% $46,413 $47,088 $47,556 101.0%
No academic rank 960 453 507 52.8% $45,441 $47,223 $43,740 92.6%
All instructional staff total 13,543 7,139 6,404 47.3% $53,442 $54,765 $51,939 94.8%

Tribal colleges

Faculty rankTotalMenWomenShare of womenAvg. salary for allAvg. men’s salaryAvg. women’s salaryWomen’s pay as a % of men’s
Professor 3 3 0 0.0% $60,408 $60,408 — —
Associate professor 24 16 8 33.3% $67,374 $67,365 $54,720 81.2%
Assistant professor 36 22 14 38.9% $56,385 $57,555 $55,080 95.7%
Instructor 711 358 353 49.6% $43,416 $43,029 $43,848 101.9%
Lecturer 8 5 3 37.5% $42,462 $43,479 $40,779 93.8%
No academic rank 100 58 42 42.0% $40,590 $41,139 $36,189 88.0%
All instructional staff total 882 462 420 47.6% $43,299 $43,047 $43,650 101.4%

Note: Data cover degree-granting historically black and tribal institutions in the United States that are eligible to participate in Title IV financial-aid programs. Salaries are adjusted to a standard nine-month work year, and averages are weighted. Of the 100 historically black institutions represented in the table, 39 are public four-year institutions, 50 are private nonprofit four-year institutions, 10 are public two-year institutions, and one is a private nonprofit two-year institution. The 35 tribal colleges represented in the data were weighted more toward two-year institutions, with eight public four-year institutions, five private nonprofit four-year institutions, 19 public two-year colleges, and three private nonprofit two-year colleges. 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

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