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Faculty Pay

Faculty pay keeps rising, but the rewards are not evenly distributed across sectors. See where faculty members make the most, and where women’s earnings fall well below men’s.


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Women earned, on average, less than 90 percent of what men did at doctoral institutions.
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Women had the lowest overall average salaries in comparison with men at doctoral universities with very high research activity.
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Women outnumbered men as members of the full-time instructional staff at nearly all classifications of associate institutions.
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Institutions with “very high research activity” predominated among colleges that paid their full professors the most.
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Full professors got the lowest percentage raises in all sectors in 2018-19, but their average pay increases still outpaced the inflation rate.
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Part-time faculty members earned the highest average amount for a standard three-credit course at religiously affiliated doctoral institutions.
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