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April 4, 2002

How FAS salaries stack up

Average full-time faculty salaries in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) ranged last year from $27,303 for instructors in the humanities division to $91,093 for full professors in the social sciences division.

Average and median salaries for full-time employees in FAS and other Pitt units as of Oct. 31, 2001, appeared in a recent report by the University's Office of Institutional Research.

The average salary among FAS's 254 humanities division faculty members was $55,279. The median was $49,426.

The total included 72 professors ($87,482 average, $78,851 median), 75 associate professors ($54,003 average, $52,075 median), 34 assistant professors ($42,590 average, $44,230 median), 17 instructors ($27,303 average, $23,738 median), and 56 "other" instructors, lecturers, etc. whose primary job class is not a professional faculty rank ($31,782 average, $30,792 median).

Among the 240 faculty in the natural sciences division, the average salary was $65,152. The median was $58,000.

That included 88 professors ($89,512 average, $85,553 median), 64 associate professors ($59,386 average, $57,000 median), 51 assistant professors ($50,001 average, $49,562 median), six instructors ($28,163 average, $29,803 median) and 31 in the "other" category ($39,988 average, $38,062 median).

In FAS's social sciences division, 125 faculty earned an average salary of $68,579. The median was $62,926.

That included 51 professors ($91,093 average, $85,960 median), 36 associate professors ($59,782 average, $56,657 median), 22 assistant professors ($54,128 average, $50,625 median) and 16 "others" ($36,478 average, $34,000 median).

Seven faculty members who report to the FAS dean's office earned average and median salaries of $62,207 and $57,878, 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 by the University, endowment monies and other sources.

— Bruce Steele


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