Faculty Compensation Survey Results
https://www.aaup.org/news/faculty-compensation-survey-results
“The results of the AAUP’s 2020–21 Faculty Compensation Survey, released today, show that real wages for full-time faculty decreased for the first time since the Great Recession, and average wage growth for all ranks of full-time faculty was the lowest since the AAUP began tracking annual wage growth in 1972. After adjusting for inflation, real wages decreased at over two-thirds of colleges and universities. The number of full-time faculty decreased at over half of institutions.
Average pay for part-time faculty members teaching a three-credit course section in 2019–20 varied widely between institutional types, with average rates of pay ranging from $2,611 per section in public associate’s institutions without ranks to $5,760 per section in private religiously affiliated doctoral institutions. (Part-time faculty pay data is collected for the prior year as institutions generally cannot provide employment data on part-time faculty until the end of the academic year).
The survey also asked about the wide range of actions taken by US colleges and universities in response to financial difficulties stemming from the COVID–19 pandemic. At a time when many institutions were already struggling to balance their budgets, many lowered their expenditures by implementing hiring freezes, salary cuts, fringe benefit cuts, furloughs, and layoffs. We highlight the prevalence of such actions and how they have affected faculty members.
See the complete survey results.
in the survey are those included in the US Department
of Education categories of “Primarily Instructional” and
“Instructional/Research/Public Service,” regardless of whether
they are formally designated “faculty.” They do not include
clinical or basic science faculty in schools of medicine or military
faculty. Full-time faculty members on sabbatical leave with pay
are counted at their regular salaries even though they may be
receiving a reduced salary while on leave. Full-time replacements
for those on leave with pay are not counted. All faculty members who have contracts for the full academic year are included,
regardless of whether their status is considered “permanent.”
Institutions are asked to exclude (a) full-time faculty members
on sabbatical or leave without pay; (b) full-time faculty members whose services are valued by bookkeeping entries rather
than by monetary payments unless their salaries are determined
by the same principles as those who do not donate their services;
(c) full-time faculty members who are in military organizations and are paid on a different scale from civilian employees;
(d) administrative officers with titles such as academic dean,
associate or assistant dean, librarian, registrar, or coach, even
though they may devote part of their time to instruction, unless
their instructional salary can be isolated; and (e) research faculty
whose appointments have no instructional component.”
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