University Times

Average faculty salaries in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) ranged last year from $25,564 for instructors in the humanities division to $87,558 for full professors in the social sciences division.

Average and median salaries for employees in FAS and other Pitt units as of Oct. 31, 2000, appeared in a recent report by the University's Office of Institutional Research.

The average salary among FAS's 231 humanities division faculty members was $54,673. The median was $48,917.

The total included 72 professors ($82,442 average, $74,275 median), 73 associate professors ($51,291 average, $50,558 median), 35 assistant professors ($41,294 average, $42,000 median), 14 instructors ($25,564 average, $23,796 median), and 37 "other" instructors, lecturers, etc. whose primary job class is not a professional faculty rank ($30,977 average, $28,895 median).

Among the 245 faculty in the natural sciences division, the average salary was $61,797. The median was $55,000.

That included 92 professors ($85,275 average, $82,467 median), 60 associate professors ($57,401 average, $54,070 median), 54 assistant professors ($46,103 average, $46,380 median), seven instructors ($25,741 average, $27,592 median) and 32 in the "other" category ($36,906 average, $35,681 median).

In FAS's social sciences division, 115 faculty earned an average salary of $69,514. The median was $63,935.

That included 51 professors ($87,558 average, $81,120 median), 38 associate professors ($60,165 average, $56,740 median), 17 assistant professors ($52,674 average, $50,000 median) and nine "others" ($38,548 average, $37,101 median).

Seven faculty members who report to the FAS dean's office earned mean and median salaries of $66,313 and $62,591, respectively.

The report did not break down FAS salaries below the division level. Salaries of faculty with 12-month contracts were converted to standard nine-month academic contracts.

"Salary" as defined by the report included all contract salaries paid by Pitt, including hard money salary funds, research grants awarded to the University, endowment monies and other sources.

— Bruce Steele