The Chronicle: Report From Education Department Offers More Comprehensive Look at Faculty Salaries in 2004-5
The averages reported by the Education Department are a bit lower than the AAUP averages, probably because the department’s statistics are more comprehensive and include many smaller colleges that do not participate in the AAUP survey. For example, the average salary of a full professor is $87,634 according to the new report and $91,548 according to the AAUP. Both reports exclude medical faculty members, whose higher pay tends to skew the national averages.
The new report also contains data on the number of faculty members with varying degrees of tenure, at different types of institutions. And it offers statistics on what colleges spend on fringe benefits for faculty members. The largest such benefit for full-timers at nonprofit colleges are retirement plans. The biggest benefit for their counterparts in the for-profit sector are medical and dental plans.
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