University Times

The average salary among the 14 executives, administrators and managers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) was $205,656 as of Oct. 31, 1995.

Meanwhile, the nine secretaries and clerical workers at the Titusville campus were pulling in an average of $13,233.

Those numbers represent the high and low salary ranges for full-time, non-union Pitt and UPMC faculty and staff, according to a report by the University's Office of Institutional Research.

The report includes mean (average) and median (mid-range) salaries for major ranks of faculty, staff and administrators in each responsibility unit, as of Oct. 31. University-wide data also is included. See table on this page.

"Salary," as defined by the report, includes all contract salary paid by the University — regardless of whether the funding source was Pitt hard money salary funds, a research grant awarded to Pitt, an endowment for a chaired professorship or some other source.

An employee's salary was attributed to the unit through which his or her employee record was processed. Salaries for faculty with 12-month contracts were converted to standard (nine-month) academic contracts.

To avoid revealing individuals' salaries, the report does not list salaries for specific ranks and job classes when the number of employees in those categories is three or fewer. For example, the nursing school has just three full professors and one "executive, administrative and managerial" employee, so the report does not list salary figures for those people.

Staff/administration The report divides staff into four categories: "executive, administrative and managerial," "other professionals," "secretarial and clerical" and "technical, skilled and service." It lists seven units where executives, administrators and managers earned mean and median salaries exceeding $80,000. Besides the UPMC administration, those units include: The Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences (six senior staff members) — $159,182 mean, $139,542 median. That includes Senior Vice Chancellor Thomas Detre's salary of $411,596.

The Office of the Provost (28 senior staff) — $113,280 mean, $110,844 median. That includes Provost James Maher's $162,000 salary.

The School of Medicine administration (four senior staff) — $97,203 mean, $83,427 median.

The Office of the Chancellor (eight senior staff) — $94,158 mean, $79,986 median. That includes Interim Chancellor Mark Nordenberg's salary of $198,000.

The Office of Computing and Information Services (seven senior staff) — $85,521 mean, $84,882 median.

The Office of Human Resources (four senior staff) — $84,685 mean, $81,207 median.

According to the report, the two lowest-paid ranks and job classes at Pitt were "secretarial and clerical" and "technical, skilled and service" staff. Three employee groups earned mean and median salaries of less than $15,000: Titusville campus secretarial and clerical staff (13) — $13,233 mean, $12,900 median.

Human Resources technical, skilled and service staff (13) — $13,243 mean, $13,674 median.

Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Business secretarial and clerical staff (135) — $14,506 mean, $13,632 median.

The remaining staff category specified in the report, "other professionals," is also the least defined. Average salaries in this category ranged from $42,689 for 59 staff in the athletics department to $21,228 for 96 staff in the University Library System.

Faculty Professional schools with relatively large proportions of senior professors had the highest-paid faculties. The four regional campuses had the lowest-paid faculties.

Faculties at six schools earned average salaries exceeding $60,000: Medicine had 1,339 faculty members who earned mean and median salaries of $93,719 and $83,359, respectively. That total included 260 full professors, who earned a mean salary of $137,001 and median salary of $122,328. The school also employed 352 associate professors ($96,990 mean salary, $86,355 median), 672 assistant professors ($77,830 mean, $72,000 median), 47 instructors ($38,942 mean, $34,553 median) and eight faculty in "other" ranks ($199,648 mean, $227,359 median).

The Katz Graduate School of Business had 64 total faculty members who earned a $75,450 mean salary and a $69,235 median salary. That total included 28 full professors ($93,214 mean salary, $88,655 median), 20 associate professors ($65,671 mean, $64,164 median), 12 assistant professors ($56,952 mean, $57,500 median) and four others ($75,450 mean, $69,235 median).

Law had 48 total faculty members who received $71,809 mean and $72,447 median salaries. That included 23 full professors ($95,832 mean, $98,000 median), seven associate professors ($69,964 mean, $69,000 median), seven assistant professors ($51,820 mean, $40,991 median), five instructors ($36,065 mean, $36,409 median) and six others ($71,809 mean, $72,447 median).

The Graduate School of Public and International Affairs had 39 total faculty members who earned a mean salary of $67,078 and a $68,771 median. The total included 17 full professors ($81,785 mean, $79,790 median), 16 associate professors ($61,693 mean, $62,792 median) and six assistant professors ($39,773 mean, $44,661 median). Salary figures for two faculty members in the "other" category were not listed.

Engineering's 104 total faculty members received a $61,642 mean salary and a $56,750 median salary. That included 39 full professors ($79,479 mean, $77,900 median), 39 associate professors ($54,030 mean, $55,400 median) and 26 assistant professors ($46,307 mean, $47,000 median). One other faculty member was listed in the "other" category.

In the Graduate School of Public Health, 99 total faculty members earned a $60,774 mean salary and a $51,545 median salary. The total included 24 full professors ($96,161 mean, $83,855 median), 25 associate professors ($59,102 mean, $55,579 median) and 50 assistant professors ($44,624 mean, $43,072 median).

One other academic unit, the Learning Research and Development Center, had exceptionally high mean and median faculty salaries ($90,216 and $85,364, respectively). But LRDC employs only four faculty members, all of them full professors.

The regional campuses had the lowest average faculty salaries.

The Johnstown campus's 147 total faculty earned a mean salary of $41,030 and a $40,250 median salary. That included 17 full professors ($56,946 mean, $56,050 median), 74 associate professors ($43,122 mean, $43,715 median), 26 assistant professors ($32,555 mean, $32,000 median), 19 instructors ($31,073 mean, $29,780 median) and 11 others ($39,599 mean, $42,250 median).

At Greensburg, 60 total faculty earned a $37,890 mean salary and a $37,458 median salary. That included 9 full professors ($51,140 mean, $51,430 median), 25 associate professors ($41,058 mean, $41,185 median), 14 assistant professors ($32,189 mean, $32,100 median) and 12 instructors ($28,006 mean, $28,185 median). Three other faculty members were listed in the "other" category.

Bradford employed 70 faculty members earning mean and median salaries of $37,496 and $36,175, respectively. That included 10 full professors ($50,326 mean, $50,257 median), 16 associate professors ($42,775 mean, $43,474 median), 31 assistant professors ($34,452 mean, $33,854 median), nine instructors ($27,638 mean, $27,000 median) and four others ($30,076 mean and $29,451 median).

Titusville is the only Pitt academic unit that does not offer four-year degrees. It also does not employ any full professors. Predictably, it was the campus with the lowest mean and median faculty salaries: $31,924 and $32,480, respectively, among 22 total faculty in the survey. That included 10 associate professors ($34,906 mean, $34,855 median), seven assistant professors ($30,696 mean, $31,000 median) and five instructors ($27,678 mean, $26,533 median). Three other faculty members were listed in the "other" category.

— Bruce Steele