Want to know who is well compensated in higher education and who is less well paid, or to explore the divisions between full-time professors and faculty members working on temporary contracts? Examine these and other factors in this collection of 27 tables.
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NewsFears of Disrupting a Faculty Pipeline
At small, out-of-the-way colleges, and in departments of all kinds, some people worry that the supply of qualified faculty members from abroad may diminish. -
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Average Salaries of Instructional Staff at 4-Year Institutions
Women made up about a quarter of professors at doctoral institutions with the highest and higher research activity, and a third elsewhere. -
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Colleges That Pay Full Professors the Most
Public institutions that paid the most tended to be in states with high costs of living, like California and New York. -
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Colleges With the Highest Shares of Nonresident-Alien Teaching-Staff Members
Nearly two-thirds of nonresident-alien employees were tenured faculty members at the University of Kentucky and Reed College. -
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Gender, Race, and Ethnicity of College Administrators, Faculty, and Staff
Both Asians and nonresident aliens were most highly represented in the occupational category “graduate assistants.” -
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Median Salaries of Deans, by Discipline
Deans of medicine, dentistry, and law earned the highest median pay. -
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Pay Gap for Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Executive Posts
In just one such executive post did racial and ethnic minorities represent more than 20 percent of job holders. -
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Highest-Paid Chief Executives at Private Nonprofit Colleges
The most highly compensated chief executive earned $5.5 million. Most of that came from a deferred payout. -
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Highest-Paid Chief Executives at Public Universities
Three of the eight leaders who made $1 million or more were in Texas. -
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Characteristics of College Presidents
Over five years, the proportion of presidents who were members of minority groups climbed by about four percentage points. -
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Pathways to the College Presidency
Nearly two-thirds of college presidents who worked their way up within higher education were previously provosts. -
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Gender and Average Salaries of Teaching Staff at Distance-Education-Only Colleges
Two-year and four-year for-profit institutions paid higher average salaries than completely distance-education institutions in other sectors did. -
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Pay Gap for Female College Executives
In two of the three executive positions in which women’s median salaries exceeded men’s, female representation was relatively low. -
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Average Salaries of Teaching Staff at Public Associate Colleges
Salaries were highest among professors at institutions that mainly served traditional full-time, degree-seeking students. -
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Average Salaries of Teaching Staff at HBCUs and Tribal Colleges
Just under half of the full-time instructional staff at tribal and historically black colleges were female. -
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Average Salaries of Teaching Staff at For-Profit Colleges
Average salaries at most institutions were below $50,000. -
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Colleges With the Most Graduate Assistants
Twenty-five public and three private nonprofit universities employed more than 3,000 graduate assistants each. -
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Top Producers of U.S. Fulbright Scholars
Three research institutions had at least 10 Fulbright scholars in the 2016-17 academic year. -
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Pay Gap for Female College Administrators
Women’s pay was closest to men’s in the position with the lowest female representation: top executive. -
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Average Salaries of Staff Members
The largest occupational category was office and administrative support, representing more than 20 percent of such employees. -
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Median Salaries of Faculty Members in 5 Disciplines
Public institutions paid professors in the health professions more, on average, than private nonprofit institutions did. -
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Full-Time Teaching Staff, by Rank
Nearly half of the instructional staff employed at American institutions of higher education worked at doctoral universities. -
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Tenure Status of Faculty Members
Only a third of faculty members at all colleges were tenured or on the tenure track in the fall of 2015. -
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Contract Lengths of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members
Of the more than 900,000 faculty members in the U.S. without tenure status, nearly half were on contracts of less than a year’s duration. -
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Median Increase in Senior Administrators’ Salaries
Overall percentage pay increases for administrators have exceeded the inflation rate for the past five years. -
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Median Salaries of Library and Museum Professionals
The head of a campus museum had the greatest median salary at four-year institutions, and a Level-1 library cataloger had the lowest. -
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Median Percentage Increases in Faculty Salaries
Instructors at private, independent institutions got the highest increase, followed by instructors at public institutions. -
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Colleges With the Most Staff Members per 1,000 Students
Many institutions on the list are medical colleges or health-science centers, or comprise them.
