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Colleges With the Highest Average Pay for Associate Professors, 2017-18

By Chronicle Staff

June 30, 2019

Most institutions with the highest average pay for associate professors in 2017-18 were on the East Coast or the West Coast or in Illinois. Eight of the public doctoral institutions that paid their associate professors the most were University of California campuses. Of all the public institutions that were ranked highest for their average salaries for associate professors, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor employed the most professors at that rank, nearly 600. Of the highest-ranked private nonprofit institutions, Cornell University employed the most associate professors, nearly 400. See The Chronicle’s database of faculty salaries.

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Public institutions

Doctoral

Rank	Institution	Salary	Number of associate professors
1.	U. of California at Berkeley	$130,525	311
2.	U. of California at Los Angeles	$129,966	268
3.	U. of Texas at Dallas	$122,941	148
4.	New Jersey Institute of Technology	$118,683	91
5.	Rutgers U. at Newark	$117,086	149
6.	U. of Virginia	$116,397	380
7.	U. of California at Irvine	$114,893	244
8.	U. of California at San Diego	$112,792	221
9.	U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor	$112,360	597
10.	U. of Massachusetts at Lowell	$112,103	163
11.	City U. of New York Graduate Center	$110,230	43
12.	U. of California at Santa Cruz	$109,412	133
13.	U. of Massachusetts at Amherst	$109,018	326
14.	U. of Washington	$108,648	461
15.	U. of California at Davis	$108,433	308
16.	U. of California at Merced	$108,430	68
17.	U. of Massachusetts at Boston	$108,007	233
18.	U. of Maryland at College Park	$107,853	426
19.	U. of California at Santa Barbara	$107,368	146
20.	U. of Delaware	$107,227	363
	Median for 193 institutions	$87,448	232

Master’s

Rank	Institution	Salary	Number of associate professors
1.	Pennsylvania State U.-Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies	$126,749	13
2.	City U. of New York Bernard M. Baruch College	$117,722	128
3.	U. of Washington at Bothell	$109,101	42
4.	U. of North Texas at Dallas	$103,127	8
5.	Pennsylvania State U.-Harrisburg	$102,395	64
6.	City U. of New York Hunter College	$102,362	206
7.	City College of City U. of New York	$102,324	155
8.	U. of Washington at Tacoma	$102,288	53
9.	City U. of New York John Jay College of Criminal Justice	$99,240	160
10.	City U. of New York Brooklyn College	$98,675	156
11.	U. of Baltimore	$98,565	59
12.	City U. of New York Herbert H. Lehman College	$98,088	117
13.	City U. of New York Queens College	$97,989	184
14.	California State U.-Dominguez Hills	$97,806	59
15.	City U. of New York College of Staten Island	$97,670	114
	Median for 266 institutions	$73,037	73

Baccalaureate

Rank	Institution	Salary	Number of associate professors
1.	U.S. Merchant Marine Academy	$103,016	31
2.	City U. of New York, New York City College of Technology	$96,774	128
3.	City U. of New York Medgar Evers College	$95,923	39
4.	City U. of New York, York College	$95,636	78
5.	Pennsylvania State U. at Erie, The Behrend College	$94,022	58
	Median for 85 institutions	$67,846	24

Associate and baccalaureate/associate

Rank	Institution	Salary	Number of associate professors
1.	Pennsylvania College of Technology	$108,750	55
2.	Stella and Charles Guttman Community College	$104,089	6
3.	Westchester Community College	$99,986	34
4.	Elgin Community College	$97,477	31
	City Colleges of Chicago Harry S. Truman College	$96,360	10
	Median for 405 institutions	$60,707	21

Private nonprofit institutions

Doctoral

Rank	Institution	Salary	Number of associate professors
1.	Stanford U.	$157,690	195
2.	California Institute of Technology	$149,012	6
3.	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	$147,358	216
4.	Columbia U.	$145,614	201
5.	U. of Pennsylvania	$140,052	223
6.	Northwestern U.	$134,788	312
7.	Yale U.	$134,454	126
8.	Harvard U.	$132,561	142
9.	Princeton U.	$129,463	95
10.	Georgetown U.	$129,416	229
11.	U. of Chicago	$125,780	221
12.	Duke U.	$125,415	265
13.	Cornell U.	$124,011	392
14.	Northeastern U.	$123,819	254
15.	Boston U.	$123,690	341
16.	Teachers College, Columbia U.	$122,436	54
17.	Dartmouth College	$122,100	151
18.	Washington U. in St. Louis	$121,226	174
19.	U. of Notre Dame	$119,155	276
20.	Boston College	$118,529	275
	Median for 115 institutions	$99,528	138

Master’s

Rank	Institution	Salary	Number of associate professors
1.	Bentley U.	$120,643	68
2.	Santa Clara U.	$115,218	144
3.	Keck Graduate Institute	$105,313	12
4.	Bryant U.	$101,931	37
5.	Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey	$100,358	15
6.	Long Island U.-C.W. Post	$100,148	97
7.	Roger Williams U.	$99,920	71
8.	U. of New Haven	$99,621	67
9.	Fairfield U.	$99,434	90
10.	New York Institute of Technology	$98,889	102
	Median for 383 institutions	$66,770	33

Baccalaureate

Rank	Institution	Salary	Number of associate professors
1.	Claremont McKenna College	$119,273	49
2.	Barnard College	$118,746	30
3.	Pomona College	$114,824	65
4.	Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art	$111,328	16
5.	Washington and Lee U.	$109,340	59
6.	Swarthmore College	$108,816	42
7.	Harvey Mudd College	$108,480	17
8.	U. of Richmond	$108,202	134
9.	Hamilton College (N.Y.)	$107,336	45
10.	Amherst College	$107,110	30
	Median for 357 institutions	$61,869	22

Associate and baccalaureate/associate

Rank	Institution	Salary	Number of associate professors
1.	Oxford College of Emory U.	$83,546	21
2.	Johnson & Wales U. at Charlotte (N.C.)	$81,845	39
3.	Johnson & Wales U. at Denver	$80,617	23
4.	St. Augustine College (Ill.)	$65,694	5
5.	Mount Aloysius College	$65,430	16
	Median for 24 institutions	$57,613	9

Note: Figures are based on data from degree-granting public or private nonprofit institutions in the United States that are eligible to participate in federal Title IV financial-aid programs and that fall into the following 2018 Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education: baccalaureate, master’s, or doctoral for four-year institutions, and associate or baccalaureate/associate for two- and four-year institutions combined. The data, which are current as of November 1, 2017, cover full-time, nonmedical staff members who are engaged primarily in instruction. Salaries are adjusted to a standard nine-month work year. Institutions with fewer than four full professors and for-profit institutions are excluded. Questions or comments on the Chronicle List should be sent to Ruth Hammond.

Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data