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Pitt librarians gained ground but full-time instructional faculty on the University’s Pittsburgh campus remained the same or fell in an annual comparison with peers at public Association of American Universities (AAU) schools.

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The average salary ranking for librarians rose from 14th to 10th in the University’s 2012-13 peer group analysis of average salaries of faculty and librarians, compared among 34 AAU schools. The 61 Pitt librarians in the survey earned an average salary of $75,200 in 2012-13, up 5.3 percent from 2011-12.

Compared among faculty at 33 public AAU schools that submitted data (faculty salary data for the University of Washington were unavailable), the ranking for Pitt full professors dropped from 16th to 17th, associate professors fell from 14th to 17th and assistant professors remained unchanged at 26th.

Pitt faculty salaries rank higher when regional cost of living is taken into account. (See related story, this page.)

The annual faculty salary report, produced by Pitt’s institutional research office, is based on data from the Association of American University Professors (AAUP) 2012-13 economic status of the profession report (www.aaup.org/report/heres-news-annual-report-economic-status-profession-2012-13). Librarians’ salaries are based on the Association of Research Libraries annual salary survey.

Twelve-month salaries are converted to a nine-month equivalent using a conversion factor of 0.818. The rankings do not account for faculty members’ age, discipline area or tenure status.

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Pittsburgh campus faculty pay

Pay for the 450 Pitt full professors included in the survey averaged $135,900 in 2012-13, up 0.8 percent from 2011-12.

The 408 Pitt associate professors included in the survey averaged $91,500, an increase of 1.7 percent; 472 Pitt assistant professors gained 1.1 percent, with average pay of $75,800.

Pitt’s 2012-13 report, presented Oct. 18 to the University Senate budget policies committee, now includes lecturer and instructor faculty ranks and shows the number of faculty members included in each rank’s salary averages.

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Although the AAUP report included salary data for instructors and lecturers, previous versions of the Pitt report did not include those ranks.

The 90 full-time instructors on the Pittsburgh campus, who earned an average salary of $45,400, ranked No. 16 among the 18 public AAU institutions that submitted salary data for the rank. Their average pay rose 0.2 percent.

The University’s 174 full-time Pittsburgh campus lecturers, who earned an average of $44,800 (up 1.1 percent), ranked at the bottom of 29 public AAU schools that submitted salary data for the rank.

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Pitt’s ranking for the lecturer and instructor faculty ranks remained unchanged from 2011-12.

Bradford, Greensburg and Johnstown

Faculty pay at Pitt’s three baccalaureate regional campuses are compared against a peer group of Carnegie category IIB schools in the three AAUP regions that border Pennsylvania. The comparison schools may be public, private-independent, church-related or proprietary. Institutions are grouped by average salary into deciles, with the first decile representing the top 10 percent.

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Full professors on the three Pitt regional campuses ranked No. 19 in the fifth decile with an average salary of $79,500. Average salaries for the 22 institutions in the fifth decile ranged from $83,100 at Mount Union in Ohio to $79,200 at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina.

The University of Richmond in Virginia was at the top of the first decile for the professor rank with an average salary of $144,000. At the bottom of decile 10 for the professor rank was St. Andrews University in North Carolina with an average salary of $44,100.

Associate professors on the three Pitt regional campuses ranked No. 9 in the fifth decile with an average salary of $66,100. Average pay at the 22 institutions in the fifth decile ranged from $67,000 at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania to $64,000 at Hollins University in Virginia.

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The U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland was at the top of the first decile in the associate professor rank with an average salary of $104,000. At the bottom of decile 10 for the associate professor rank was Lees-McRae College in North Carolina with an average of $39,900.

Assistant professors on the three Pitt regional campuses ranked No. 17 among the 23 schools in the sixth decile with an average pay of $53,900. Average salaries in the decile ranged from $55,300 at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia to $53,400 at Shepherd University in West Virginia.

The U.S. Naval Academy was at the top of the assistant professor rank overall with an average salary of $84,400. At the bottom of the assistant professor rank was Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana with an average salary of $38,700.

Faculty pay at Pitt-Titusville, a Carnegie Foundation category III (associate’s degree-level) school, was not compared in the report.

The entire report can be viewed at www.utimes.pitt.edu/documents/PeerAnalysisReport2012-13.pdf.

—Kimberly K. Barlow