Women outnumbered men as members of the full-time instructional staff in all institutional classifications below except mixed baccalaureate/associate institutions, which conferred more than 10 percent of degrees at the baccalaureate level. Highest pay over all was found at associate institutions that were classified as “high transfer; high traditional students,” meaning that fewer than 30 percent of awards were granted in career and technical programs, and that many students were under 25, attended full time, and were studying in areas meant to prepare them for transfer to a four-year college.
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Baccalaureate/associate institutions
Mixed
| Professor | 681 | 43.2% | $71,966 | $73,647 | $69,769 | 94.7% |
| Associate professor | 854 | 46.4% | $66,109 | $68,521 | $63,346 | 92.4% |
| Assistant professor | 941 | 50.3% | $57,101 | $59,025 | $55,205 | 93.5% |
| Instructor | 492 | 44.9% | $55,256 | $56,179 | $54,144 | 96.4% |
| Lecturer | 117 | 48.7% | $43,081 | $41,940 | $44,283 | 105.6% |
| No academic rank | 1,255 | 52.4% | $55,966 | $55,546 | $56,351 | 101.5% |
| All instructional staff total | 4,340 | 48.4% | $60,274 | $61,726 | $58,730 | 95.1% |
Associate dominant
| Professor | 1,238 | 48.9% | $69,653 | $70,436 | $68,824 | 97.7% |
| Associate professor | 1,392 | 54.2% | $62,388 | $63,058 | $61,823 | 98.0% |
| Assistant professor | 1,506 | 55.0% | $53,000 | $53,568 | $52,535 | 98.1% |
| Instructor | 2,682 | 51.3% | $57,967 | $57,731 | $58,189 | 100.8% |
| Lecturer | 148 | 68.2% | $44,338 | $41,681 | $45,594 | 109.4% |
| No academic rank | 2,231 | 55.6% | $52,358 | $51,962 | $52,676 | 101.4% |
| All instructional staff total | 9,197 | 53.3% | $57,762 | $58,172 | $57,403 | 98.7% |
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Associate institutions
High transfer; high traditional students
| Professor | 3,681 | 53.7% | $80,235 | $82,425 | $78,357 | 95.1% |
| Associate professor | 2,865 | 57.2% | $67,157 | $67,877 | $66,620 | 98.1% |
| Assistant professor | 3,233 | 59.7% | $58,669 | $59,787 | $57,917 | 96.9% |
| Instructor | 10,520 | 55.0% | $73,261 | $74,479 | $72,268 | 97.0% |
| Lecturer | 495 | 55.4% | $57,139 | $57,614 | $56,759 | 98.5% |
| No academic rank | 2,287 | 58.2% | $53,514 | $53,527 | $53,505 | 100.0% |
| All instructional staff total | 23,081 | 56.1% | $69,330 | $70,845 | $68,147 | 96.2% |
High transfer; mixed traditional/nontraditional students
| Professor | 3,618 | 53.5% | $74,943 | $76,860 | $73,279 | 95.3% |
| Associate professor | 2,918 | 57.5% | $63,816 | $64,334 | $63,435 | 98.6% |
| Assistant professor | 3,009 | 58.6% | $57,329 | $57,676 | $57,084 | 99.0% |
| Instructor | 5,855 | 56.0% | $66,458 | $67,573 | $65,586 | 97.1% |
| Lecturer | 239 | 54.0% | $48,692 | $48,299 | $49,030 | 101.5% |
| No academic rank | 3,944 | 56.7% | $57,114 | $57,979 | $56,451 | 97.4% |
| All instructional staff total | 19,583 | 56.3% | $64,063 | $65,253 | $63,140 | 96.8% |
High transfer; high nontraditional students
| Professor | 1,055 | 53.6% | $70,169 | $70,245 | $70,103 | 99.8% |
| Associate professor | 627 | 53.7% | $61,773 | $62,484 | $61,167 | 97.9% |
| Assistant professor | 864 | 56.3% | $57,180 | $58,806 | $55,919 | 95.1% |
| Instructor | 2,486 | 54.4% | $68,533 | $69,158 | $68,015 | 98.3% |
| Lecturer | 101 | 61.4% | $42,840 | $45,632 | $41,056 | 90.0% |
| No academic rank | 1,424 | 52.2% | $60,789 | $61,842 | $59,816 | 96.7% |
| All instructional staff total | 6,557 | 54.1% | $64,619 | $65,466 | $63,902 | 97.6% |
Mixed transfer/career and technical; high traditional students
| Professor | 1,246 | 57.3% | $65,744 | $66,921 | $64,871 | 96.9% |
| Associate professor | 791 | 59.0% | $58,122 | $57,922 | $58,262 | 100.6% |
| Assistant professor | 820 | 57.3% | $52,937 | $53,825 | $52,287 | 97.1% |
| Instructor | 7,622 | 55.0% | $66,774 | $67,371 | $66,285 | 98.4% |
| Lecturer | 38 | 57.9% | $52,063 | $51,355 | $52,559 | 102.3% |
| No academic rank | 2,994 | 57.2% | $50,486 | $50,322 | $50,609 | 100.6% |
| All instructional staff total | 13,511 | 56.1% | $61,776 | $62,392 | $61,294 | 98.2% |
Mixed transfer/career and technical; mixed traditional/nontraditional students
| Professor | 1,491 | 54.3% | $67,901 | $69,002 | $66,981 | 97.1% |
| Associate professor | 852 | 58.2% | $58,284 | $58,597 | $58,061 | 99.1% |
| Assistant professor | 1,018 | 53.7% | $52,952 | $53,675 | $52,335 | 97.5% |
| Instructor | 4,470 | 54.6% | $62,805 | $63,942 | $61,862 | 96.7% |
| Lecturer | 1 | 100.0% | - | - | - | - |
| No academic rank | 3,992 | 58.5% | $54,775 | $55,056 | $54,574 | 99.1% |
| All instructional staff total | 11,824 | 56.1% | $59,573 | $60,482 | $58,862 | 97.3% |
Mixed transfer/career and technical; high nontraditional students
| Professor | 2,665 | 50.9% | $71,909 | $72,301 | $71,524 | 98.9% |
| Associate professor | 1,356 | 57.7% | $62,958 | $64,464 | $61,850 | 95.9% |
| Assistant professor | 1,664 | 55.9% | $54,193 | $53,826 | $54,485 | 101.2% |
| Instructor | 4,095 | 51.6% | $59,654 | $61,379 | $58,019 | 94.5% |
| Lecturer | 36 | 33.3% | $42,203 | $42,416 | $41,787 | 98.5% |
| No academic rank | 3,165 | 52.9% | $62,254 | $63,600 | $61,058 | 96.0% |
| All instructional staff total | 12,981 | 52.9% | $62,409 | $63,593 | $61,347 | 96.5% |
High career and technical; high traditional students
| Professor | 310 | 56.8% | $58,849 | $57,422 | $59,921 | 104.4% |
| Associate professor | 335 | 50.4% | $53,300 | $55,216 | $51,439 | 93.2% |
| Assistant professor | 164 | 45.7% | $46,654 | $46,783 | $46,502 | 99.4% |
| Instructor | 2,239 | 52.8% | $56,610 | $56,395 | $56,800 | 100.7% |
| Lecturer | 3 | 33.3% | - | - | - | - |
| No academic rank | 2,575 | 54.3% | $57,174 | $58,364 | $56,164 | 96.2% |
| All instructional staff total | 5,626 | 53.4% | $56,498 | $56,902 | $56,146 | 98.7% |
High career and technical; mixed traditional/nontraditional students
| Professor | 366 | 52.5% | $66,005 | $66,495 | $65,568 | 98.6% |
| Associate professor | 290 | 51.0% | $52,852 | $54,451 | $51,307 | 94.2% |
| Assistant professor | 224 | 56.7% | $49,086 | $52,929 | $46,197 | 87.3% |
| Instructor | 2,348 | 51.1% | $53,604 | $55,627 | $51,709 | 93.0% |
| Lecturer | 2 | 50.0% | - | - | - | - |
| No academic rank | 2,684 | 53.8% | $52,645 | $55,342 | $50,308 | 90.9% |
| All instructional staff total | 5,914 | 52.6% | $53,675 | $55,974 | $51,617 | 92.2% |
High career and technical; high nontraditional students
| Professor | 774 | 54.9% | $72,964 | $75,493 | $70,886 | 93.9% |
| Associate professor | 456 | 60.1% | $64,294 | $65,099 | $63,754 | 97.9% |
| Assistant professor | 480 | 56.3% | $60,955 | $61,141 | $60,808 | 99.5% |
| Instructor | 3,508 | 52.7% | $58,872 | $58,459 | $59,245 | 101.3% |
| Lecturer | 7 | 85.7% | $33,821 | $35,210 | $33,590 | 95.4% |
| No academic rank | 2,428 | 51.2% | $56,073 | $56,751 | $55,421 | 97.7% |
| All instructional staff total | 7,653 | 53.1% | $59,716 | $59,911 | $59,544 | 99.4% |
Note: Data cover full-time instructional staff members at degree-granting associate and baccalaureate/associate public institutions in the United States that are eligible to participate in Title IV financial-aid programs. Institutions are categorized by the 2015 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, and summary data are given for average salaries within each relevant classification. 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 classified on the basis of how much they focused on career and technical fields that require only an associate degree, compared with fields that require transfer to another institution for further education to obtain related employment. They are also classified by their traditional versus nontraditional student mix: the share of degree-seeking, full-time, and younger students compared with non-degree-seeking, part-time, and older students. If there were fewer than four instructional staff members at a particular rank in a classification, salary data were suppressed. 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>
