University Times

The Office of Institutional Research recently released its report on the salaries of full-time Pitt employees as of Oct. 31, 2003.

The highest average salaries paid to members of a University responsibility center went to 7 executives, administrators and managers in the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences, who earned an average salary of $166,700 and a median salary of $181,966.

At the lower end of the spectrum, 12 secretaries and clerical workers at the Titusville campus earned an average of $17,758, with a median of $16,728.

The Office of Institutional Research reports the salaries and other data to fulfill financial disclosure requirements for state-funded universities in the Commonwealth. The state required the University to report its October 2003 salary figures in December 2004. The salaries report was presented at the Feb. 18 meeting of the University budget policies committee.

The report revealed mean (average) and median (the middle point at which an equal number of employees earn more or less) salaries for all full-time staff and faculty. Employees’ salaries were attributed to the responsibility centers through which their employee records were processed.

The 12-month salaries of faculty were converted into a nine-month equivalent for reporting purposes.

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

The salaries did not include consultation fees, clinical income from the UPMC Health System and other non-Pitt compensation.

Also excluded from the report were salaries of research associates, part-time employees and faculty on leave of absence without pay.

Staff salaries

The report divides staff into four categories: Executive, administrative and managerial employees; other professionals; secretarial and clerical, and technical, skilled and service.

The units where executives, administrators and managers earned both mean and median salaries exceeding $60,000 include:

Senior Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences (7 executives, administrators and managers) – $166,700 average, $181,966 median.

School of Medicine Division Administration (20) — $126,193 average, $76,709 median.

Senior Vice Chancellor and Provost (57) — $120,748 average, $108,045 median.

General Counsel (9) — $111,811 average, $102,576 median.

Chancellor’s office (34) — $109,728 average, $80,739 median. Athletics (8) — $100,259 average, $81,479 median.

Executive Vice Chancellor (15) — $96,850 average, $86,372 median.

Secretary of the Board of Trustees (5) — $96,014 average, $78,911 median.

Computing Services and Systems Development (CSSD) (7) — $93,246 average, $82,156 median.

Vice Chancellor, Budget and Controller (40) — $87,887 average, $78,425 median.

School of Engineering (4) — $87,842 average, $87,170 median.

University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (8) — $83,409 average, $76,657 median.

Student Affairs (13) — $83,069 average, $79,159 median.

Arts and Sciences (A&S)-dean’s office (5) — $81,426 average, $73,729 median.

Facilities Management (8) — $81,280 average, $79,355 median.

Associate Vice Chancellor, Human Resources (13) — $77,614 average, $77,246 median.

Vice Chancellor, Institutional Advancement (43) — $76,718 average, $62,718 median.

Katz Graduate School of Business School (13) — $75,177 average, $72,072 median.

Bradford campus (11) — $72,473 average, $67,859 median.

Johnstown campus (7) — $68,455 average, $66,211 median.

School of Education (9) — $67,380 average, $66,549 median.

School of Law (4) — $66,529 average, $64,306 median.

A&S-natural sciences (5) — $65,733 average, $70,284 median.

Business Operations (9) — $62,508 average, $67,751 median.

Of the 21 remaining responsibility centers, seven paid their executives, administrators and managers average and/or median salaries of less than $60,000. Another 14 centers employed three or fewer people in this category.

On the lowest end of the staff salary range, the following staff earned average and median salaries of less than $22,000:

Secretarial and clerical staff in the A&S-social sciences division (12 employees), A&S undergraduate studies (13), Business Operations (89), Chancellor for Budget and Controller (41), CSSD (4), Education-University Service Programs (5), Greensburg campus (16), Senior Vice Chancellor and Provost (69), Titusville campus (12), University Center for International Studies (9), University Library System (33) and Vice Chancellor for Budget and Controller (41).

Technical, skilled and service workers in the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor of Human Resources (18), the Graduate School of Public Health (5), School of Dental Medicine (42), Office of Student Affairs (5) and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (7).

 

Faculty salaries

The following were the average and median faculty salaries paid by Pitt schools and other academic units, in descending order based on average salary. The salaries of faculty were not listed in classifications where there were three or less members.

The responsibility center that paid the highest average and median salaries was the A&S Dean’s Office where 11 faculty – all full professors — earned an average salary of $126,368 and a median salary of $119,215.

In the School of Medicine Division Administration, 5 faculty earned an average salary of $121,978 and a median salary of $78,528. This category included one professor, one associate professor and three assistant professors – not enough in any one classification to list salaries by rank.

At the Katz Graduate School of Business, 74 faculty members earned $104,445 on average and a $98,900 median salary. That included 31 professors ($127,750 average, $118,730 median), 17 associate professors ($87,378 average, $81,520 median), 20 assistant professors ($97,871 average, $94,880 median) and 6 lecturers ($54,306 average, $58,491 median).

The School of Law employed 48 faculty members who earned an average salary of $89,718 and a median salary of $99,064. That included 23 professors ($122,305 average, $121,721 median), 12 associate professors ($69,027 average, $62,906 median), seven assistant professors ($61,185 average, $69,530 median) and six lecturers ($39,470 average, $38,262 median).

The 33 faculty in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs earned $87,225 on average with a median salary of $88,441. That included 15 professors ($106,650 average, $102,813 median), 11 associate professors ($81,209 average, $78,229 median) and 7 assistant professors ($55,051 average, $58,349 median).

In the School of Engineering, 108 faculty were paid an average salary of $87,183 and a median salary of $80,590. That included 45 professors ($110,535 average, $108,932 median), 28 associate professors ($77,067 average, $78,616 median) and 35 assistant professors ($65,251 average, $68,280 median).

The average salary among 1,724 faculty employed by the School of Medicine, Pitt’s largest academic unit, was $82,616. The median salary was $81,800. That included 370 professors ($113,687 average, $115,583 median), 378 associate professors ($91,448 average, $97,757 median), 854 assistant professors ($71,483 average, $69,530 median), 122 instructors ($38,949 average, $34,910 median).

The 27 faculty in the School of Information Sciences earned an average salary of $79,586 and a median salary of $74,833. That included 6 professors ($103,317 average, $91,019 median), 12 associate professors ($75,874 average, $73,554 median) and nine assistant professors ($68,715 average, $71,500 median).

The Graduate School of Public Health employed 127 faculty members who were paid an average salary of $75,964 and a median salary of $64,906. That included 34 professors ($110,801 average, $103,805 median), 33 associate professors ($77,787 average, $72,810 median) and 60 assistant professors ($55,221 average, $54,944 median).

In the A&S-social sciences division, 121 faculty were paid an average salary of $73,112 and a median salary of $69,945. That included 48 professors ($97,094 average, $90,704 median), 32 associate professors ($65,405 average, $60,907 median), 25 assistant professors ($58,957 average, $53,000 median) and 16 lecturers ($38,697 average, $35,764 median).

The 253 faculty in the A&S-natural sciences division earned an average salary of $70,068 and a median salary of $63,982. That included 85 professors ($97,667 average, $94,535 median), 63 associate professors ($64,795 average, $63,440 median), 65 assistant professors ($57,951 average, $57,839 median), 8 instructors ($24,526 average, $22,321 median) and 32 lecturers ($43,139 average, $39,471 median).

The School of Dental Medicine employed 87 faculty members with an average salary of $69,784 and a median salary of $64,980. That included 13 professors ($103,249 average, $94,821 median), 22 associate professors ($75,134 average, $74,815 median), 47 assistant professors ($62,497 average, $63,980 median) and five instructors ($27,729 average, $26,336 median).

At the School of Pharmacy, 77 faculty were paid an average salary of $69,679 and a median salary of $63,981. That included 15 professors ($91,192 average, $83,933 median), 13 associate professors ($75,929 average, $75,496 median) and 49 assistant professors ($61,435 average, $58,896 median).

The 114 faculty in the School of Education earned an average salary of $64,300 and a median salary of $63,473. That included 22 professors ($88,223 average, $85,519 median), 44 associate professors ($68,719 average, $65,980 median), 23 assistant professors ($53,557 average, $52,240 median), 6 instructors ($46,298 average, $42,500 median) and 19 lecturers ($45,057 average, $44,362 median).

The School of Social Work paid 33 faculty an average salary of $62,107 and a median salary of $61,075. That included 7 professors ($83,974 average, $90,107 median), 9 associate professors ($73,222 average, $69,575 median), 9 assistant professors ($58,301 average, $58,710 median) and 8 instructors ($34,751 average, $31,977 median).

In the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, 71 faculty earned an average salary of $60,648 and a median salary of $58,784. That included 10 professors ($86,346 average, $85,197 median), 16 associate professors ($72,517 average, $63,038 median), 31 assistant professors ($54,267 average, $55,731 median) and 14 instructors ($42,858 average, $42,712 median).

The 265 faculty in the A&S-humanities division received an average salary of $56,989 and a median salary of $52,250. That included 66 professors ($91,984 average, $81,409 median), 75 associate professors ($58,640 average, $57,000 median), 38 assistant professors ($48,279 average, $48,041 median), 17 instructors ($30,304 average, $28,643 median) and 69 lecturers ($33,094 average, $30,404 median).

The School of Nursing paid 72 faculty members an average salary of $56,293 and a median salary of $52,678. That included 4 professors ($83,710 average, $80,310 median), 16 associate professors ($66,328 average, $64,461 median), 27 assistant professors ($51,806 average, $51,943 median) and 25 instructors ($50,330 average, $45,956 median).

At the Bradford campus, 69 faculty earned an average salary of $50,161 and a median salary of $47,435. That included 11 professors ($65,139 average, $63,273 median), 22 associate professors ($54,557 average, $52,697 median), 28 assistant professors ($44,613 average, $43,788 median) and 8 instructors ($36,893 average, $38,250 median).

The 139 faculty at the Johnstown campus were paid an average salary of $49,565 and a median salary of $48,741. That included 17 professors ($62,566 average, $61,559 median), 56 associate professors ($55,012 average, $54,690 median), 40 assistant professors ($43,852 average, $42,053 median) and 26 instructors ($38,124 average, $37,752 median).

The Greensburg campus employed 80 faculty who received an average salary of $48,154 and a median salary of $44,353. That included 11 professors ($66,070 average, $65,395 median), 22 associate professors ($54,152 average, $53,162 median), 33 assistant professors ($42,915 average, $42,000 median) and 14 instructors ($37,000 average, $40,000 median).

At the Titusville campus, 19 faculty earned an average salary of $43,427 and a median salary of $42,912. That included 2 professors who weren’t ranked and whose salaries weren’t listed, 8 associate professors ($46,949 average, $47,323 median) and 11 assistant professors ($40,866 average, $42,025 median).

The University Library System paid 69 librarians an average salary of $40,505 and a median salary of $37,232. That included 4 librarian IVs ($59,601 average, $52,537 median), 32 librarian IIIs ($46,550 average, $41,268 median), 16 librarian IIs ($36,350 average, $35,949 median) and 17 at librarian I rank ($28,543 average, $27,076 median).

In the Senior Vice Chancellor, Heath Sciences office, 25 faculty, all classified as “lecturer and other,” were paid an average salary of $40,218 and a median salary of $36,906.

The 8 instructors in Education-University Service Programs earned an average salary of $38,390 and a median salary of $35,758.

-Mary Ann Thomas