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May 29, 2008

Where Pitt faculty pay ranked

Pittsburgh campus faculty pay

Pittsburgh campus professors’ average salary of $121,900 placed faculty at No. 9, up from last year’s 12th place ranking with an average salary of $119,500. The absence of UCLA, UC-Berkeley and UC-San Diego, which ranked Nos. 1, 2 and 6 in the 2006-07 comparison, pushed the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill into the No. 1 spot with average salaries of $138,500.

Pitt associate professors earned an average of $80,400, placing them at No. 17, down two places from last year with average salaries of $78,200, in spite of the fact that Berkeley and UCLA, which ranked above Pitt last year, were not included.

The University of Virginia, whose associate professors averaged $91,000, maintained its No. 1 ranking in the category.

Pitt’s assistant professors ranked No. 20 with pay averaging $67,700, moving up only four places from No. 24 ($66,400) last year in spite of the exclusion of the six UC campuses, all of which ranked above Pitt last year. Topping the category this year was the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor with average assistant professor salaries of $79,300.

Librarians’ pay

A separate report on librarian salaries using data from the Association of Research Libraries (which includes data from the UC campuses) also is included in the Management Information and Analysis report. Pitt’s librarians tied for No. 20 with the University of Illinois-Urbana with average salaries of $64,000, up two places from last year’s No. 18 tie ($61,700) with University of Maryland-College Park. Maintaining its No. 1 spot on the list was Rutgers University-New Brunswick, where librarians’ salaries average $82,000.

Category II-B faculty pay

Faculty pay at Pitt’s Greensburg, Johnstown and Bradford campuses was compared with a peer group of branch campuses at 18 public AAU schools.

The peer group is composed of Penn State’s II-B branch campuses (which are reported as a group), Ohio State’s Newark, Mansfield, Lima, Marion and agricultural technical institute campuses; University of North Carolina-Asheville, Texas A&M-Galveston, University of Virginia’s College at Wise, University of Minnesota’s Crookston and Morris campuses, University of Texas-Brownsville, Indiana University’s East and Kokomo branches and Purdue’s north central campus.

That peer group also differs from last year’s. Data from University of Texas-Brownsville and University of Virginia’s College at Wise were not included in the 2006-07 rankings. This year, those schools ranked No. 14 and No. 12, respectively, in professors’ pay, No. 10 and No. 9 in associate professors’ pay and No. 8 and No. 5 in assistant professors’ pay.

In a comparison of professors’ pay, UPG ranked No. 11 (down from No. 10) with $76,700, UPJ held steady at No. 15 ($71,500) and UPB placed last with $66,900. Displacing Penn State at the top of the list this year was Ohio State’s agricultural technical institute, where professors averaged $93,900.

The group average was $82,100.

In the associate professors group, Penn State continued to top the list with average pay of $70,700. UPG ranked No. 14 with $60,600 (down from No. 11); UPJ ($60,400) fell two places to No. 15, and UPB dropped three places to No. 17 with average pay of $58,600.

The group average was $64,900.

In assistant professors’ pay, UPG ranked No. 14 with average pay of $49,100 for its assistant professors, down from No. 12 last year. UPJ placed No. 17 (down one place) with $48,500 and UPB dropped four places to last among the 18 peers with $47,600.

The group average was $55,800.

Category III faculty pay

Pitt-Titusville, which is compared with Penn State’s category III branches (ranked as a group) and the University of Wisconsin Colleges, placed last in professors’ salaries at $57,800. Last year, UPT’s professors were not included in the survey because there were fewer than three individuals in the rank. Penn State topped this year’s ranking with $84,900.

The group average was $72,400.

In the associate professor category, UPT continued to hold second place with pay averaging $52,100. Penn State topped the list with $70,700.

The group average was $63,300.

In assistant professors’ pay, UPT maintained second place with salaries averaging $47,500. Penn State topped the list with $63,000.

The group average was $53,200.

—Kimberly K. Barlow


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