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Average Salaries of Full-Time Instructional Staff Members at 4-Year Private Nonprofit Institutions, by Gender, 2016-17

Almanac 2018
August 19, 2018

Women had the lowest overall average salaries in comparison with men at doctoral universities with the highest research activity. They also had the lowest representation on the full-time instructional staff at such universities. They slightly outnumbered men, however, at master’s institutions with larger or medium-size programs. In terms of pay, they did best in comparison with men as full-time instructors or lecturers at master’s institutions with smaller programs or at those same ranks at baccalaureate institutions that specialized in diverse fields.

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Women had the lowest overall average salaries in comparison with men at doctoral universities with the highest research activity. They also had the lowest representation on the full-time instructional staff at such universities. They slightly outnumbered men, however, at master’s institutions with larger or medium-size programs. In terms of pay, they did best in comparison with men as full-time instructors or lecturers at master’s institutions with smaller programs or at those same ranks at baccalaureate institutions that specialized in diverse fields.


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Doctoral institutions

Highest research activity

Rank Number Percent
female
Salary,
all
Men’s
salary
Women’s
salary
Women’s salary
as a % of men’s
Professor 16,102 25.0% $188,191 $192,554 $175,231 91.0%
Associate professor 7,882 40.9% $116,655 $120,375 $111,354 92.5%
Assistant professor 7,256 43.4% $101,228 $105,830 $95,337 90.1%
Instructor 1,122 52.9% $68,709 $71,063 $66,674 93.8%
Lecturer 5,063 56.3% $71,110 $76,520 $66,918 87.5%
No academic rank 2,805 47.4% $79,363 $82,694 $75,685 91.5%
All instructional staff total 40,230 37.7% $132,300 $145,190 $111,338 76.7%

Higher research activity

Rank Number Percent
female
Salary,
all
Men’s
salary
Women’s
salary
Women’s salary
as a % of men’s
Professor 4,880 25.0% $137,505 $140,030 $129,869 92.7%
Associate professor 4,846 39.7% $95,619 $96,943 $93,588 96.5%
Assistant professor 3,827 47.6% $81,515 $84,888 $77,786 91.6%
Instructor 1,881 55.8% $69,276 $73,174 $66,282 90.6%
Lecturer 1,382 52.3% $59,126 $61,155 $57,297 93.7%
No academic rank 416 47.6% $67,357 $73,387 $60,779 82.8%
All instructional staff total 17,232 40.3% $97,768 $105,185 $86,770 82.5%

Moderate research activity

Rank Number Percent
female
Salary,
all
Men’s
salary
Women’s
salary
Women’s salary
as a % of men’s
Professor 4,334 33.5% $107,549 $110,314 $102,124 92.6%
Associate professor 4,925 48.0% $83,478 $85,835 $80,951 94.3%
Assistant professor 4,929 52.7% $63,217 $62,518 $63,846 102.1%
Instructor 1,272 52.7% $49,167 $50,042 $48,400 96.7%
Lecturer 565 46.4% $59,876 $62,556 $56,807 90.8%
No academic rank 267 51.7% $62,234 $63,471 $61,107 96.3%
All instructional staff total 16,292 46.0% $79,780 $83,936 $74,940 89.3%

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Master’s institutions

Larger programs

Rank Number Percent
female
Salary,
all
Men’s
salary
Women’s
salary
Women’s salary
as a % of men’s
Professor 8,655 37.6% $96,869 $99,404 $92,692 93.2%
Associate professor 10,513 50.3% $76,536 $78,166 $74,949 95.9%
Assistant professor 11,126 57.5% $64,739 $66,269 $63,630 96.0%
Instructor 3,475 60.5% $49,381 $49,396 $49,371 99.9%
Lecturer 1,445 54.5% $57,858 $60,412 $55,727 92.2%
No academic rank 2,564 72.2% $44,511 $46,336 $43,825 94.6%
All instructional staff total 37,778 52.1% $71,679 $76,819 $67,088 87.3%

Medium programs

Rank Number Percent
female
Salary,
all
Men’s
salary
Women’s
salary
Women’s salary
as a % of men’s
Professor 3,404 38.6% $82,507 $83,396 $81,101 97.2%
Associate professor 4,048 50.0% $67,745 $68,660 $66,836 97.3%
Assistant professor 4,465 56.1% $58,439 $58,770 $58,182 99.0%
Instructor 764 63.2% $48,350 $47,858 $48,639 101.6%
Lecturer 468 55.8% $51,250 $54,089 $48,963 90.5%
No academic rank 277 52.7% $46,251 $46,226 $46,274 100.1%
All instructional staff total 13,426 50.2% $66,240 $68,561 $63,941 93.3%

Smaller programs

Rank Number Percent
female
Salary,
all
Men’s
salary
Women’s
salary
Women’s salary
as a % of men’s
Professor 1,459 34.1% $76,336 $76,344 $76,323 100.0%
Associate professor 1,775 44.7% $66,303 $67,766 $64,501 95.2%
Assistant professor 2,116 54.3% $55,712 $54,775 $56,500 103.1%
Instructor 473 60.3% $45,972 $44,541 $46,912 105.3%
Lecturer 151 59.6% $42,106 $40,268 $43,399 107.8%
No academic rank 72 50.0% $30,160 $33,149 $27,251 82.2%
All instructional staff total 6,046 47.2% $62,326 $64,037 $60,422 94.4%

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Baccalaureate institutions

Arts and sciences focus

Rank Number Percent
female
Salary,
all
Men’s
salary
Women’s
salary
Women’s salary
as a % of men’s
Professor 8,615 37.5% $106,418 $108,245 $103,381 95.5%
Associate professor 7,775 48.0% $79,208 $80,031 $78,316 97.9%
Assistant professor 7,656 53.9% $64,554 $65,242 $63,968 98.0%
Instructor 1,357 61.5% $50,845 $52,081 $50,070 96.1%
Lecturer 778 61.6% $64,478 $65,175 $64,043 98.3%
No academic rank 1,230 52.4% $66,803 $69,768 $64,107 91.9%
All instructional staff total 27,411 47.6% $81,266 $85,211 $76,933 90.3%

Diverse fields

Rank Number Percent
female
Salary,
all
Men’s
salary
Women’s
salary
Women’s salary
as a % of men’s
Professor 2,622 33.9% $68,487 $69,106 $67,278 97.4%
Associate professor 2,836 44.5% $58,263 $58,910 $57,457 97.5%
Assistant professor 3,994 52.2% $51,000 $51,980 $50,105 96.4%
Instructor 1,012 58.1% $40,742 $38,655 $42,292 109.4%
Lecturer 134 57.5% $36,723 $35,704 $37,488 105.0%
No academic rank 826 27.7% $58,539 $62,940 $46,187 73.4%
All instructional staff total 11,424 44.9% $56,258 $58,432 $53,553 91.6%

Note: Data cover full-time instructional staff members at degree-granting four-year private nonprofit 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. Medical-school instructional staff are excluded. Tribal colleges and special-focus institutions are also excluded from the above categories. More-detailed institutional and summary faculty-salary data can be viewed online here. Questions or comments on the Almanac should be sent to the Almanac editor

Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data</small></p>

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A version of this article appeared in the August 24, 2018, issue.
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