University Times

Both the highest and lowest median sala- ries among the ranks of non-unionized Pitt employees last year were in the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences.

Among the office's six executive, administrative and managerial staff, the median salary was $173,825. That included Senior Vice Chancellor Arthur S. Levine's salary of $537,000, the highest of any Pitt employee. (That's excluding consulting fees, clinical income from the UPMC Health System and other non-University compensation that many faculty members receive).

Among the 13 secretarial and clerical employees in Levine's office, the median pay was $15,900.

Those highs and lows appear in a report by Pitt's Office of Institutional Research, in accordance with Pennsylvania's financial disclosure requirements for state-funded universities.

The report reveals mean (average) and median (the middle point at which an equal number of employees earn more or less) salaries for major ranks of full-time, non-unionized faculty, staff and administrators in each Pitt responsibility unit as of Oct. 31, 2000.

"Salary" as defined by the report includes all contract salaries paid by the University, whether the source was Pitt salary funds, a research grant awarded to Pitt, an endowment or other source.

Salaries of faculty on 12-month contracts were converted to nine-month (standard academic year) contracts. Staff salaries covered 12 months.

The report, released March 29, attributes employees' salaries to the responsibility centers through which their employee records were processed.

To avoid revealing individuals' pay, the report does not list salaries for groups with three or fewer employees.

Staff/administration highs and lows The report divides staff into four categories:

* Executive, administrative and managerial employees.

* Other professionals.

* Secretarial and clerical.

* Technical, skilled and service.

It lists 20 units where executives, administrators and managers earned both mean and median salaries exceeding $60,000. Those units included: Athletics (six executives, administrators and managers) — $106,804 mean, $76,218 median.

The Bradford campus (nine) — $68,163 mean, $62,400 median.

The Office of Budget and Controller (38) — $75,856 mean, $66,300 median.

The Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Business (12) — $65,163 mean, $63,780 median.

Computing Services and Systems Development (nine) — $80,813 mean, $73,560 median.

The Office of the Chancellor (22) — $103,056 mean, $88,912 median.

The Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor (seven) — $74,429 mean, $65,304 median.

Facilities Management (seven) — $83,484 mean, $86,952 median.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences' natural sciences division (six) — $61,930 mean, $63,111 median.

The Office of the General Counsel (eight) — $103,926 mean, $93,774 median.

The Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences (six) — $179,908 mean, $173,825 median.

The Office of Human Resources (17) — $69,831 mean, $69,522 median.

Network Services (four) — $82,928 mean, $75,753 median.

The University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (six) — $79,388 mean, $65,482 median.

The Office of the Provost (58) — $104,268 mean, $102,705 median.

The School of Medicine Division, formerly called the School of Medicine Administration (18) — $129,282 mean, $66,765 median.

The Secretary of the Board of Trustees (four) — $112,730 mean, $121,500 median.

Student Affairs (14) — $78,460 mean, $83,328 median.

The University Center for Social and Urban Research (nine) — $64,957 mean, $61,200 median.

Fifteen schools and offices employed three or fewer people in the category of executives, administrators and managers, so the report does not reveal salaries for those areas.

The following staff groups earned both mean and median salaries of less than $20,000:

* Secretarial/clerical staff in the Office of Budget and Controller (52 employees), the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Business (96), the College of Arts and Sciences (12), the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' humanities division (17), the Greensburg campus (16), the Office of Human Resources (12), Network Services (six), the Office of the Provost (73), the Titusville campus (13) and the University Center for Social and Urban Research (seven).

* Technical, skilled and service workers in the School of Dental Medicine (45), the Office of Human Resources (16) and Student Affairs (five).

Faculty highs and lows Professional and Health Sciences schools, especially those with large proportions of senior professors, had the highest-paid faculties.

University Library System faculty librarians and faculty at the four regional campuses had the lowest salaries, on average.

Faculties in the following units earned both mean and median salaries exceeding $60,000: The Katz Graduate School of Business employed 70 faculty members who earned $91,025 mean and $86,030 median salaries.

That included 31 professors ($109,456 mean, $100,095 median), 18 associate professors ($74,560 mean, $72,693 median), 17 assistant professors ($84,617 mean, $80,050 median) and four faculty in the "other" category ($49,515 mean, $50,349 median).

In the School of Engineering, 95 faculty members earned $76,672 mean and $71,800 median salaries.

The total included 41 professors ($95,505 mean, $92,265 median), 33 associate professors ($67,124 mean, $65,980 median) and 21 assistant professors ($54,906 mean, $58,350 median). The salary of one faculty member in the "other" category was not listed or included in the school-wide mean and median.

In the School of Information Sciences, 28 faculty members earned a mean salary of $66,497 and a median of $65,494.

That included six professors ($75,887 mean, $78,871 median), 13 associate professors ($67,775 mean, $65,499 median) and nine assistant professors ($58,389 mean, $56,870 median). Salaries of two "other" faculty members did not figure into the school mean and median.

The 47 School of Law faculty members earned a mean salary of $81,615 and a median of $84,449.

That included 23 professors ($111,070 mean, $113,076 median), 11 associate professors ($56,635 mean, $48,247 median), six assistant professors ($63,046 mean, $64,025 median) and seven "other" faculty members ($40,004 mean, $32,988 median).

The Learning Research and Development Center employed three professors, one associate professor and two assistant professors — not enough in any category for salary numbers by rank. Combined, the six earned $81,696 mean and $82,759 median salaries.

The School of Medicine, Pitt's largest academic unit, employed 1,556 faculty members (107 more than the year before) who earned mean and median salaries of $87,448 and $84,145, respectively.

The total included 316 professors ($125,508 mean, $115,609 median), 365 associate professors ($90,972 mean, $90,423 median), 728 assistant professors ($75,634 mean, $72,306 median), 137 instructors ($45,335 mean, $34,200 median) and 10 others ($193,102 mean, $184,091 median).

In the School of Pharmacy, 68 faculty members earned $63,377 mean and $60,588 median salaries.

That included 14 professors ($80,424 mean, $75,772 median), 12 associate professors ($64,001 mean, $65,824 median), 36 assistant professors ($55,890 mean, $53,341 median) and six "other" faculty members ($67,276 mean, $68,276 median). The salary of one instructor was excluded.

The Graduate School of Public and International Affairs employed 29 faculty members who earned a $79,621 mean and $83,023 median salary.

That included 15 professors ($93,014 mean, $93,189 median), eight associate professors ($76,383 mean, $77,463 median) and six assistant professors ($50,457 mean, $54,990 median). The salary of one "other" faculty member was excluded.

In the Graduate School of Public Health, 108 faculty members earned mean and median salaries of $70,781 and $60,167, respectively.

The total included 28 professors ($103,890 mean, $101,266 median), 29 associate professors ($72,553 mean, $68,983 median) and 51 assistant professors ($51,596 mean, $50,010 median). The salaries of one instructor and two "other" faculty members were excluded.

The 115 faculty in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences social sciences division also earned mean and median salaries exceeding $60,000. So did seven faculty members who report to the FAS dean's office. See FAS salaries story on this page.

As in the past years, the University Library System (ULS) and regional campuses had the lowest average faculty salaries.

In ULS, 56 faculty librarians earned a mean salary of $36,111 and a median of $33,336.

That included 24 librarians in the Librarian III category ($41,393 mean, $36,690 median), 14 Librarian IIs ($33,383 mean, $31,618 median) and 14 Librarian Is ($26,573 mean, $26,153 median). The salaries of three Librarian IVs and one Librarian V were not figured into the total.

At the Bradford campus, 70 faculty members (the total does not include two in the "other" category) earned a $43,478 mean and $42,840 median salary.

The total included seven professors ($59,066 mean, $58,563 median), 23 associate professors ($49,381 mean, $48,316 median), 31 assistant professors ($38,937 mean, $38,895 median) and nine instructors ($31,910 mean, $30,961 median).

The Greensburg campus's 69 faculty members earned a $43,432 mean and $41,241 median salary.

That included nine professors ($57,562 mean, $60,084 median), 24 associate professors ($48,334 mean, $49,348 median), 23 assistant professors ($38,935 mean, $38,160 median), nine instructors ($32,794 mean, $34,551 median) and four "other" faculty members ($32,017 mean, $30,793 median).

The Johnstown campus employed 137 faculty members earning $46,150 mean and $45,286 median salaries.

The total included 16 professors ($61,013 mean, $59,964 median), 60 associate professors ($49,823 mean, $49,631 median), 32 assistant professors ($39,241 mean, $38,267 median), 20 instructors ($34,284 mean, $33,587 median) and nine "others" ($46,177 mean, $45,286 median).

At the Titusville campus, 22 faculty members earned a $38,980 mean and $38,327 median salary.

Seven associate professors at the UPT campus earned $41,599 mean and $41,150 median salaries. For nine assistant professors, the mean was $35,728 and the median $36,874. Salaries for one full professor, two instructors and three "others" were not specified but were figured into the total.

— Bruce Steele