By SUSAN JONES
The annual mean and median salaries report from the Office of the Provost has much more detailed information this year on staff salaries, with the number of categories increasing from four to eight.
Amanda Brodish, the associate vice provost for data analytics who prepares the report and presented it to the Senate Budget Policies committee on March 22, said, “With the new compensation modernization project, we decided it was a good time to realign and reconsider the categories that we used for staff.”
The report can be accessed through the Office of Institutional Research salary reports webpage. Once you click on Mean and Median Salaries, you’ll need to enter your Pitt Password to see the report from this year and several previous years.
The categories include executive or senior level officials and managers; first or mid-level officials and managers; professionals; administrative support workers; craft workers; sales workers; service workers; and technicians. There also is a long appendix that lists what positions fall into each category.
The report is based on salaries on Oct. 31, 2023, for regular, not temporary, full-time faculty and staff. It reflects the salary increases last year, including the $16.50 an hour minimum set by the Board of Trustees.
One item of note is that the mean and median salaries for post-docs at several schools fall below the National Institutes of Health National Research Service Award minimum annual salary — currently $56,484 — which Pitt has agreed to set as its minimum for postdoc associates and scholars by July 2025.
The categories for faculty have not changed. They are listed as nine-month equivalent salaries, so that faculty salaries for those on 12-month appointments — such as those in the University Library System — reflect only a portion of their total pay.
Deans’ salaries are not included with their schools, but fall instead under the executive staff category in the Office of the Provost. If there are three or fewer people in a category, the salaries are suppressed in the report, so as not to show individual salaries.
All employees’ salaries are associated with the department that processes their employee record.
Susan Jones is editor of the University Times. Reach her at suejones@pitt.edu or 724-244-4042.
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