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Compensation Data

How Much Has Faculty Pay Changed Over Time?

By Brian O’Leary and Julia Piper April 1, 2025

This page collects the most recently available federal salary data for faculty at institutions of higher education. Data is available for 3,500 institutions and is broken down by gender and academic rank.

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Here’s a sector-by-sector look at changes in average annual pay for faculty members at institutions of higher education in 2023-24. Click the row to reveal salary data from 2012-13 to 2023-24. Filter by academic rank to view salary averages for professor, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor, or lecturer ranks. For more compensation data, visit our companion page about noninstructional-employee pay.

Salary data for the 2023-24 academic year:

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About the Data

Data come from the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), which comprises degree-granting U.S. colleges that participate in Title IV funding. The faculty data refer to full-time, nonmedical, instructional staff members (either “instructional only” or “instructional combined with research and/or public service”) as of November 1 of the corresponding academic year.

Academic rank is usually assigned by each institution and includes professors, associate professors, assistant professors, instructors, lecturers, and those with no academic rank. “All ranks” includes all faculty members.

In reporting faculty-pay data since 2012-13, IPEDS provides the total number of faculty members, categorized by gender and length of contract, as well as the total amounts paid to them.

“Type” is based on highest degree granted. Only colleges with at least three faculty members in a given set (rank and gender) will display an average salary.

Average salaries for the United States, states, and types are generated by multiplying the nine-month-equivalent average salary of an institution by the number of faculty members at that rank. Those numbers are then divided by the total number of faculty members in each category (U.S., state, or type).

We welcome your thoughts and questions about this article. Please email the editors or submit a letter for publication.
Correction (April 11, 2024, 2:04 p.m.): Because of incorrect data for Elmhurst University submitted to IPEDS, all 2022 values for the institution have been corrected. The changes will also affect summary values for U.S., private four-year, Illinois, and Ill. private four-year.

Correction (April 11, 2024, 5:45 p.m.): Because of incorrect data for Trinity Washington University submitted to IPEDS, all 2022 values for the institution have been corrected. The changes will also affect summary values for U.S., private four-year, District of Columbia, and D.C. private four-year.

Correction (April 15, 2024, 11:22 a.m.): Because of incorrect data for Muhlenberg College submitted to IPEDS, all 2022 values for the institution have been corrected. The changes will also affect summary values for U.S., private four-year, Pennsylvania, and Pa. private four-year.

Correction (April 24, 2024, 3:15 p.m.): Because of incorrect data for St. John's College (Md.) submitted to IPEDS, all 2022 values for the institution have been corrected. The changes will also affect summary values for U.S., private four-year, Maryland, and Md. private four-year.

Correction (April 29, 2024, 5:24 p.m.): 2021 data was also corrected for St. John's College (Md.). These changes are from the institution to correct figures misreported to IPEDS. Related summary values have also been corrected.
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Brian O’Leary
Brian O’Leary is an interactive news editor at The Chronicle, where he builds data visualizations and other interactive news products. Email him at brian.oleary@chronicle.com.
Julia Piper
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Julia Piper
Julia Piper, a data coordinator, compiles Gazette and manages production of the Almanac and Executive Compensation. Email her at julia.piper@chronicle.com.

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