Professors’ Pay Raises Beat Inflation; So Much for the Good News

by E Wayne Ross on April 13, 2009

The Chronicle: Professors’ Pay Raises Beat Inflation; So Much for the Good News

Faculty pay has been battered by the deepening national recession, but you can’t tell that from the American Association of University Professors’ new annual report on the economic status of the profession. The average salary of a full-time faculty member rose 3.4 percent in 2008-9, it says, a rate well above inflation.