University Times

In accordance with Pennsylvania’s public school code, the four state-related universities must submit annual reports that include full-time faculty/staff pay, retirement and tuition benefit policies, revenues and expenditures and certain goods and services contracts that exceed $1,000.

The individual schools’ documents, totaling hundreds of pages, are posted at www.education.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/the_snyder_report/12959.

However, the Joint State Government Commission (JSGC)’s “Information Disclosure of the State-related Universities” report boils down the data into a 69-page statistical comparison. The authors caution that differences in the internal organizations of the universities, such as differences in their academic and administrative units, “make direct comparisons between the universities difficult for most data elements.”

Pitt reported a total of 33,905 full-time equivalent (FTE) students for the 2009-10 academic year; Penn State reported 79,378; Temple, 34,665, and Lincoln, 2,593.

The following are selected data from the most recent report, which is based on 2009-10 data submitted by the schools.

Executive, administrative and management staff, number and average salary

Pitt: 586; average salary $100,597.

Penn State: 1,089; average salary $110,637.

Temple: 1,000; average salary $81,909.

Lincoln: 161; average salary $51,215.

Other professional non-faculty staff, number and average salary

Pitt: 4,373; average salary $43,162.

Penn State: 5,145; average salary $54,457.

Temple: 1,350; average salary $53,384.

Lincoln: 19; average salary $27,888.

Clerical/secretarial staff, number and average salary

Pitt: 673; average salary $25,890.

Penn State: 2,234; average salary $33,258.

Temple: 617; average salary $39,331.

Lincoln: 69; average salary $38,289.

Technical, skilled and service staff, number and average salary

Pitt: 1,187; average salary $33,079.

Penn State: 3,590; average salary $36,550.

Temple: 903; average salary $42,567.

Lincoln: 80; average salary $33,833.

Faculty by rank, number and average salary

• Professor

Pitt: 922; average salary $117,623.

Penn State: 1,214; average salary $136,784.

Temple: 567; average salary $141,961.

Lincoln: 29; average salary $94,088.

• Associate professor

Pitt: 997; average salary $78,942.

Penn State: 1,134; average salary $97,799.

Temple: 542; average salary $103,514.

Lincoln: 32; average salary $71,926.

• Assistant professor

Pitt: 1,676; average salary $59,707.

Penn State: 1,149; average salary $90,885.

Temple: 726; average salary $81,993.

Lincoln: 34; average salary $52,271.

• Instructor

Pitt: 274; average salary $43,066.

Penn State: 647; average salary $50,188.

Temple: 97; average salary $55,818.

Lincoln: 3; average salary $53,796.

• Lecturer/other

Pitt: 1,245; average salary $36,490.

Penn State: 1,491; average salary $56,150.

Temple: 46; average salary $51,966.

Lincoln: 11; average salary $45,288.

2009-10 operating revenues (excluding auxiliary enterprises); amount, percentage of total and percentage increase from prior year:

• Tuition and fees

Pitt: $600,771,856; 53.5 percent; +6.8 percent.

Penn State: $1,324,683,572; 67.0 percent; +7.6 percent.

Temple: $562,617,000; 67.8 percent; +6.9 percent.

Lincoln: $29,849,890; 55.2 percent; +4.3 percent.

• State appropriations

Pitt: $185,406,477; 16.5 percent; +4.2 percent.

Penn State: $335,414,000; 17.0 percent; +10.3 percent.

Temple: $178,516,000; 21.5 percent; unchanged.

Lincoln: $13,623,000; 25.2 percent; unchanged.

• Grand total revenues

Pitt: $1,123,620,534; +7.6 percent.

Penn State: $1,977,387,770; +8.1 percent.

Temple: $829,817,134; +6.5 percent.

Lincoln: $54,124,748; +7.5 percent.

Operating expenditures: amount, percentage of grand total, increase from prior year:

• Instructional, salary and wages

Pitt: $453,392,130; 40.5 percent; +0.7 percent.

Penn State: $841,047,303; 46.9 percent; +1.4 percent.

Temple: $378,959,466; 46.3 percent; +0.1 percent.

Lincoln: $25,428,005; 47.4 percent; +3.8 percent.

• Employee benefits

Pitt: $151,596,676; 13.6 percent; +1.8 percent.

Penn State: $369,095,518; 20.6 percent; +8.3 percent.

Temple: $114,983,019; 14.0 percent; +4.4 percent.

Lincoln: $7,779,213;14.5 percent; +7.5 percent.

Grand total expenditures: amount, percentage of total, increase from prior year:

Pitt: $1,118,743,594; +6.9 percent.

Penn State: $1,794,363,260; +3.2 percent.

Temple: $818,595,049; +6.2 percent.

Lincoln: $53,653,569; +4.2 percent.

Contracts by vendor location and percentage of total:

With the exception of Lincoln, figures provided include only vendor contracts exceeding $1,000 that used unrestricted (general fund) dollars or auxiliary fund dollars.

They exclude vendor contracts such as those used for sponsored research, within restricted funds (including some plant/construction contracts), etc.

• Total contracts reported:

Pitt: $297,477,993.

Penn State: $426,570,140.

Temple: $368,460,148.

Lincoln: $29,457,007.

• Pennsylvania vendors:

Pitt: $105,772,581; 35.6 percent.

Penn State: $260,356,835; 61 percent.

Temple: $241,037,716; 65.4 percent.

Lincoln: $15,506,608; 52.6 percent.

• Out-of-state vendors

Pitt: $191,705,412; 64.4 percent.

Penn State: $166,213,305; 39 percent.

Temple: $127,422,431; 34.6 percent.

Lincoln: $13,950,399; 47.4 percent.

(Penn State’s out-of-state figure includes $11.8 million where the vendor location was unknown; Temple’s figure includes $3.9 million and Lincoln’s includes $2,500 to vendors in unknown locations.)

The full report can be viewed at http://jsg.legis.state.pa.us/.

—Kimberly K. Barlow