University Times

Among the 363 full professors in Pitt’s School of Medicine, the average nine-month contract salary was $123,911 during the 2002-03 fiscal year.

That’s not counting consultation fees, clinical income from the UPMC Health System and other non-Pitt compensation that those professors may have received.

Meanwhile, the 12 secretarial and clerical staff at the Titusville campus earned average salaries of $17,317 for 12 months’ work.

Those highs and lows appear in a recent report by Pitt’s Office of Institutional Research. It reveals mean (average) and median (the point at which an equal number of employees earn higher and lower salaries) pay for major ranks of full-time, non-unionized faculty, staff and administrators in each Pitt responsibility unit as of Oct. 31, 2002.

Institutional Research released the report last month. It’s an in-house companion to a financial disclosure report that the University is required to give Harrisburg annually.

In the past, Pitt had to report on its end-of-October salaries the following spring. But last year, the state changed its deadline from spring to Dec. 31. That’s why Pitt only last month was reporting salary information from October 2002.

Excluded from the report are salaries of research associates, part-time employees, faculty on leave of absence without pay, and academic administrators at the level of dean or above who are classified as “executive staff” or “senior administrative staff.”

To avoid revealing individuals’ pay, the report also does not list salaries for employee groups with three or fewer members.

“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 attributes employees’ salaries to the responsibility centers through which their employee records were processed.

Staff/administration highs & lows

The report divides staff into four categories:

• Executive, administrative and managerial employees.
• Other professionals.
• Secretarial and clerical.
• Technical, skilled and service.

It lists 21 units where executives, administrators and managers earned both average and median salaries exceeding $60,000. Those units included:

Arts and Sciences (A&S) dean’s office (five executives, administrators and managers) — $78,907 average, $70,386 median.

A&S natural sciences division (five) — $64,322 average, $68,580 median.

Athletics (nine) — $102,490 average, $80,022 median.

Bradford campus (10) — $73,106 average, $67,956 median.

Office of the Vice Chancellor for Budget and Controller (40) — $83,100 average, $76,512 median.

Business operations (10) — $61,066 average, $61,773 median.

Katz Graduate School of Business (14) — $68,778 average, $63,354 median.

Office of the Chancellor (31) — $105,908 average, $83,214 median.

Computing Services and Systems Development (seven) — $89,000 average, $78,996 median.

Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor (15) — $94,846 average, $89,556 median.

Facilities Management (eight) — $78,910 average, $76,560 median.

Office of the General Counsel (nine) — $108,679 average, $98,100 median.

Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences (seven) — $184,827 average, $177,249 median.

Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resources (13) — $72,412 average, $74,634 median.

Office of the Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement (42) — $75,533 average, $60,558 median.

School of Medicine Division Administration (20) — $115,333 average, $66,552 median.

Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor and Provost (55) — $117,643 average, $108,426 median.

Graduate School of Public Health (11) — $72,995 average, $66,360 median.

Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (eight) — $78,357 average, $72,480 median.

Office of the Secretary of the Board of Trustees (four) — $122,466 average, $132,750 median.

Student Affairs (14) — $78,599 average, $75,259 median.

Of the 20 remaining responsibility centers, nine (all of them academic units) paid their executives, administrators and managers average and/or median salaries of less than $60,000.

Another 11 academic units employed three or fewer people in the category of executives, administrators and managers, so the report does not reveal their salary averages and medians.

At the opposite end of the staff salary spectrum, the following staff earned average and median salaries of less than $22,000:

• Secretarial and clerical staff in the Arts and Sciences (A&S) dean’s office (four employees), the A&S humanities division (20), the A&S social sciences division (14), the College of Arts and Sciences (11), the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Budget and Controller (41), Business Operations (90), Computing Services and Systems Development (five), the School of Dental Medicine (36), the College of General Studies (13), the Greensburg campus (17), the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resources (seven), the Johnstown campus (47), the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor and Provost (69), the Titusville campus (12), the University Center for International Studies (nine), the University Center for Social and Urban Research (six), the University Libraries System (34) and the education school’s University Service Programs (four).

• Technical, skilled and service workers in the School of Dental Medicine (44), the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resources (18), the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (four), the Graduate School of Public Health (seven) and Student Affairs (five).

Faculty salaries

The following were the average and median faculty salaries paid by Pitt schools and other academic units last year, in descending order based on average salary.

The report gave division-level rather than school-wide salary figures for the School of Arts and Sciences.

See separate story on A&S salaries.

The school that paid the highest average and median salaries was the Katz Graduate School of Business, where 75 faculty members earned an average salary of $101,360 and a median salary of $98,000.

The total included 32 professors ($123,763 average, $113,005 median), 18 associate professors ($83,165 average, $80,085 median), 20 assistant professors ($94,904 average, $93,005 median) and five “others” ($49,300 average, $49,080 median).

The average salary among 1,727 faculty employed by the School of Medicine, Pitt’s largest academic unit, was $87,781. The median salary was $85,890.

The total included 363 professors ($123,911 average, $115,583 median), 386 associate professors ($93,496 average, $97,961 median), 840 assistant professors ($76,396 average, $73,620 median) and 138 instructors ($46,064 average, $36,259 median). The salaries of two “other” faculty members were excluded.

The School of Medicine Division Administration employed one professor, one associate professor and three assistant professors — not enough in any category for salary numbers by rank. Combined, the five professors earned an average salary of $87,276 with a $63,719 median.

At the Learning Research and Development Center, two professors and two associate professors collectively earned an average salary of $87,164 with a median of $88,063.

The Graduate School of Public and International Affairs employed 31 faculty members earning an $84,614 average and $89,128 median salary.

That included 15 professors ($99,979 average, $99,818 median), nine associate professors ($82,425 average, $84,899 median) and seven assistant professors ($54,503 average, $59,294 median).

The 48 School of Law faculty members earned an average salary of $84,314 and a median of $82,033.

That included 22 professors ($115,515 average, $115,009 median), 11 associate professors ($62,062 average, $50,927 median), nine assistant professors ($65,537 average, $74,025 median) and six “other” faculty ($38,871 average, $37,048 median).

In the School of Engineering, 104 faculty members earned $83,339 average and $78,090 median salaries.

The total included 43 professors ($106,985 average, $105,495 median), 31 associate professors ($73,039 average, $72,622 median) and 30 assistant professors ($60,089 average, $61,618 median). The salary of one faculty member in the “other” category was not listed or included in the school-wide average and median numbers.

In the Graduate School of Public Health, 120 faculty members earned average and median salaries of $77,811 and $63,351, respectively.

The total included 33 professors ($116,697 average, $117,877 median), 28 associate professors ($77,948 average, $70,149 median) and 59 assistant professors ($55,995 average, $53,892 median). Salaries of one instructor and one “other” faculty member were excluded.

The 86 School of Dental Medicine faculty members were paid an average of $77,668 and a median salary of $68,095.

That included 11 professors ($111,741 average, $113,042 median), 26 associate professors ($84,693 average, $79,905 median), 44 assistant professors ($66,034 average, $59,608 median) along with three instructors and two “other” faculty members whose salary averages were not listed but were figured into the school-wide salary average and median.

In the School of Information Sciences, 33 faculty members earned an average salary of $74,133 and a median of $70,725.

That included nine professors ($90,777 average, $85,033 median), 12 associate professors ($73,189 average, $70,481 median) and 12 assistant professors ($62,594 average, $61,617 median). Salaries of two “other” faculty members did not figure into the school average or median.

The School of Pharmacy employed 77 faculty members earning a $68,560 average and $61,800 median salary.

They included 17 professors ($91,323 average, $81,886 median), 14 associate professors ($74,414 average, $72,704 median), 42 assistant professors ($59,239 average, $57,237 median) as well as three instructors and one “other” faculty member whose salary averages were not listed but were figured into the school-wide salary numbers.

In the School of Education, 97 faculty members were paid an average salary of $63,828 with a median of $61,350.

That included 20 professors ($82,910 average, $81,819 median), 41 associate professors ($66,225 average, $63,797 median), 19 assistant professors ($52,126 average, $50,691 median) and 17 “other” faculty members ($48,679 average, $47,775 median). The salary of one instructor was excluded.

In the School of Social Work, 32 faculty members earned average and median salaries of $61,355 and $59,259, respectively.

They included six professors ($83,808 average, $85,894 median), nine associate professors ($72,566 average, $76,587 median), 10 assistant professors ($55,575 average, $54,649 median) and seven instructors ($35,953 average, $32,874 median). Salaries of three “others” were excluded.

The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences’ 74 faculty members earned an average salary of $60,437 with a $55,472 median.

Included were nine professors ($89,685 average, $88,359 median), 16 associate professors ($74,286 average, $73,779 median), 31 assistant professors ($56,516 average, $55,430 median) and 18 instructors ($40,254 average, $38,502 median).

In the School of Nursing, 67 faculty members were paid an average of $57,632 with a median salary of $55,104.

Among them were four professors ($98,630 average, $94,540 median), 15 associate professors ($65,957 average, $64,041 median), 23 assistant professors ($53,559 average, $54,499 median) and 25 instructors ($49,824 average, $45,489 median).

The Johnstown campus employed 135 faculty members earning $48,463 average and $47,766 median salaries.

The total included 15 professors ($63,716 average, $62,594 median), 59 associate professors ($53,860 average, $53,107 median), 34 assistant professors ($42,258 average, $41,432 median) and 27 instructors ($36,012 average, $35,065 median). Salaries for three “other” faculty members were not listed and were not figured into the campus salary average and median.

At the Bradford campus, 70 faculty members (the total does not include one in the “other” category) earned a $47,721 average and $45,844 median salary.

The total included eight professors ($64,061 average, $61,956 median), 23 associate professors ($53,209 average, $50,819 median), 33 assistant professors ($42,514 average, $42,630 median) and six instructors ($33,535 average, $32,151 median).

The Greensburg campus’s 74 faculty members earned a $47,303 average and $43,938 median salary.

That included 10 professors ($65,166 average, $67,126 median), 24 associate professors ($51,614 average, $52,301 median), 31 assistant professors ($41,560 average, $40,306 median) and nine instructors ($35,739 average, $36,973 median).

At the Titusville campus, 19 faculty members earned a $41,874 average and $41,381 median salary.

That included eight associate professors ($44,623 average, $44,059 median) and 11 assistant professors ($39,875 average, $40,991 median). Salaries for two full professors and one instructor were not listed and were not figured into the campus-wide average and median.

The 71 librarians in Pitt’s University libraries earned an average of $38,188 with a median salary of $35,924.

Among them were four librarians in the Librarian IV classification ($57,290 average, $51,337 median), 31 Librarian IIIs (43,851 average, $39,621 median), 15 Librarian IIs ($35,694 average, $34,598 median) and 21 at the Librarian I level ($27,972 average, $26,553 median). The salary of one Librarian V (the highest-paying classification) was not figured into the total.

—Bruce Steele