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

Almanac 2017

August 13, 2017

At associate and baccalaureate/associate colleges, salaries were highest among professors at associate institutions that mainly served traditional full-time, degree-seeking students and were preparing them to transfer to a four-year college to complete their degrees. With two exceptions, women earned at least 90 percent of what men did at every rank and at every type of associate institution.

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Carnegie classification	Rank	All	Men’s salary	Women’s salary	Women’s salary as percent of men’s
Baccalaureate/associate colleges: mixed	Professor	$64,633	$66,779	$62,179	93.1%
Baccalaureate/associate colleges: mixed	Associate professor	$65,362	$67,056	$63,396	94.5%
Baccalaureate/associate colleges: mixed	Assistant professor	$56,529	$59,075	$53,881	91.2%
Baccalaureate/associate colleges: mixed	Instructor	$54,194	$54,973	$53,310	97.0%
Baccalaureate/associate colleges: mixed	Lecturer	$40,123	$41,312	$38,817	94.0%
Baccalaureate/associate colleges: mixed	No academic rank	$57,047	$56,265	$57,795	102.7%
Baccalaureate/associate colleges: mixed	All instructional staff total	$59,464	$60,949	$57,863	94.9%
Baccalaureate/associate colleges: associate dominant	Professor	$70,348	$71,284	$69,365	97.3%
Baccalaureate/associate colleges: associate dominant	Associate professor	$60,394	$60,720	$60,118	99.0%
Baccalaureate/associate colleges: associate dominant	Assistant professor	$52,294	$52,931	$51,770	97.8%
Baccalaureate/associate colleges: associate dominant	Instructor	$58,809	$58,792	$58,826	100.1%
Baccalaureate/associate colleges: associate dominant	Lecturer	$42,349	$40,250	$43,509	108.1%
Baccalaureate/associate colleges: associate dominant	No academic rank	$56,233	$57,563	$55,138	95.8%
Baccalaureate/associate colleges: associate dominant	All instructional staff total	$58,648	$59,478	$57,917	97.4%
Associate: high transfer; high traditional students	Professor	$79,315	$81,883	$77,096	94.2%
Associate: high transfer; high traditional students	Associate professor	$65,827	$67,009	$64,952	96.9%
Associate: high transfer; high traditional students	Assistant professor	$57,371	$57,817	$57,069	98.7%
Associate: high transfer; high traditional students	Instructor	$70,154	$71,654	$68,913	96.2%
Associate: high transfer; high traditional students	Lecturer	$53,436	$52,650	$54,127	102.8%
Associate: high transfer; high traditional students	No academic rank	$51,838	$51,910	$51,787	99.8%
Associate: high transfer; high traditional students	All instructional staff total	$66,986	$68,628	$65,694	95.7%
Associate: high transfer; mixed traditional/nontraditional students	Professor	$73,460	$75,151	$71,972	95.8%
Associate: high transfer; mixed traditional/nontraditional students	Associate professor	$63,570	$64,497	$62,868	97.5%
Associate: high transfer; mixed traditional/nontraditional students	Assistant professor	$57,180	$57,485	$56,962	99.1%
Associate: high transfer; mixed traditional/nontraditional students	Instructor	$65,164	$66,474	$64,150	96.5%
Associate: high transfer; mixed traditional/nontraditional students	Lecturer	$48,938	$49,179	$48,769	99.2%
Associate: high transfer; mixed traditional/nontraditional students	No academic rank	$58,703	$59,600	$58,027	97.4%
Associate: high transfer; mixed traditional/nontraditional students	All instructional staff total	$63,702	$64,986	$62,705	96.5%
Associate: high transfer; high nontraditional students	Professor	$68,553	$69,300	$67,888	98.0%
Associate: high transfer; high nontraditional students	Associate professor	$61,706	$62,219	$61,266	98.5%
Associate: high transfer; high nontraditional students	Assistant professor	$55,958	$57,785	$54,622	94.5%
Associate: high transfer; high nontraditional students	Instructor	$67,713	$68,559	$67,034	97.8%
Associate: high transfer; high nontraditional students	Lecturer	$43,227	$44,482	$42,287	95.1%
Associate: high transfer; high nontraditional students	No academic rank	$63,767	$63,647	$63,885	100.4%
Associate: high transfer; high nontraditional students	All instructional staff total	$64,483	$65,270	$63,819	97.8%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; high traditional students	Professor	$64,699	$65,859	$63,816	96.9%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; high traditional students	Associate professor	$59,046	$59,727	$58,576	98.1%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; high traditional students	Assistant professor	$53,662	$54,454	$53,105	97.5%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; high traditional students	Instructor	$62,909	$64,160	$61,885	96.5%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; high traditional students	Lecturer	$51,881	$48,902	$54,441	111.3%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; high traditional students	No academic rank	$49,488	$49,668	$49,355	99.4%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; high traditional students	All instructional staff total	$59,571	$60,665	$58,717	96.8%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; mixed traditional/nontraditional students	Professor	$67,431	$69,204	$65,958	95.3%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; mixed traditional/nontraditional students	Associate professor	$58,188	$58,464	$57,985	99.2%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; mixed traditional/nontraditional students	Assistant professor	$52,574	$53,460	$51,829	96.9%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; mixed traditional/nontraditional students	Instructor	$58,864	$60,642	$57,454	94.7%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; mixed traditional/nontraditional students	Lecturer	$63,176	$62,134	$64,205	103.3%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; mixed traditional/nontraditional students	No academic rank	$52,736	$53,184	$52,418	98.6%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; mixed traditional/nontraditional students	All instructional staff total	$57,399	$58,582	$56,481	96.4%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; high nontraditional students	Professor	$71,386	$71,386	$71,386	100.0%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; high nontraditional students	Associate professor	$62,220	$63,460	$61,314	96.6%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; high nontraditional students	Assistant professor	$53,246	$53,043	$53,407	100.7%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; high nontraditional students	Instructor	$59,452	$60,421	$58,574	96.9%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; high nontraditional students	Lecturer	$41,490	$42,191	$40,651	96.4%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; high nontraditional students	No academic rank	$60,037	$61,106	$59,070	96.7%
Associate: mixed transfer/career and technical; high nontraditional students	All instructional staff total	$61,443	$62,267	$60,709	97.5%
Associate: high career and technical; high traditional students	Professor	$54,770	$54,173	$55,196	101.9%
Associate: high career and technical; high traditional students	Associate professor	$49,725	$51,536	$47,793	92.7%
Associate: high career and technical; high traditional students	Assistant professor	$42,916	$43,442	$42,453	97.7%
Associate: high career and technical; high traditional students	Instructor	$55,853	$56,214	$55,523	98.8%
Associate: high career and technical; high traditional students	Lecturer	$30,067	$30,067	—	—
Associate: high career and technical; high traditional students	No academic rank	$57,399	$57,995	$56,928	98.2%
Associate: high career and technical; high traditional students	All instructional staff total	$55,559	$55,984	$55,195	98.6%
Associate: high career and technical; mixed traditional/nontraditional students	Professor	$63,369	$64,341	$62,494	97.1%
Associate: high career and technical; mixed traditional/nontraditional students	Associate professor	$49,900	$50,445	$49,315	97.8%
Associate: high career and technical; mixed traditional/nontraditional students	Assistant professor	$46,229	$49,254	$43,921	89.2%
Associate: high career and technical; mixed traditional/nontraditional students	Instructor	$54,270	$55,647	$52,952	95.2%
Associate: high career and technical; mixed traditional/nontraditional students	Lecturer	$58,620	$58,858	$58,222	98.9%
Associate: high career and technical; mixed traditional/nontraditional students	No academic rank	$47,400	$47,537	$47,284	99.5%
Associate: high career and technical; mixed traditional/nontraditional students	All instructional staff total	$51,094	$52,001	$50,271	96.7%
Associate: high career and technical; high nontraditional students	Professor	$69,833	$71,413	$68,589	96.0%
Associate: high career and technical; high nontraditional students	Associate professor	$62,824	$64,041	$61,910	96.7%
Associate: high career and technical; high nontraditional students	Assistant professor	$56,487	$59,058	$54,461	92.2%
Associate: high career and technical; high nontraditional students	Instructor	$60,192	$59,867	$60,503	101.1%
Associate: high career and technical; high nontraditional students	Lecturer	$35,011	$44,956	$34,619	77.0%
Associate: high career and technical; high nontraditional students	No academic rank	$53,260	$53,436	$53,102	99.4%
Associate: high career and technical; high nontraditional students	All instructional staff total	$59,064	$59,322	$58,834	99.2%

Note: Data cover degree-granting associate and mixed baccalaureate/associate public 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 relevant Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The salaries are adjusted to a standard nine-month work year, and averages are weighted. Baccalaureate/associate colleges include those that offered at least one bachelor’s-degree program but conferred more than 50 percent of degrees at the associate level. Such colleges are classified as mixed if they conferred more than 10 percent of degrees at the baccalaureate level and as associate dominant if less than 10 percent. Associate colleges are categorized on the basis of how much they focused on career and technical fields that required only an associate degree, compared with fields that required transfer to another institution for further education to obtain related employment. They are also classified by their mix of traditional and nontraditional students: the share of degree-seeking, full-time, and younger students compared with non-degree-seeking and part-time students. Tribal colleges and special-focus institutions are excluded from other categories. 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