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Introduction
Faculty salaries have remained of interest to both academics and
non-academics alike. This interest is fueled by concerns such as
budgetary constraints at universities (and supporting organizations) and
controversies stemming from increasing tuition costs. We hope that the
data provided here will be of use to those engaged in such discussions.
Increases in Salaries
Faculty salaries have increased continuously over the past ten years
as shown in the graph below.
The data for all three academic ranks at both types of universities
have essentially the same annual increases over the ten-year span shown
(3.7%, with a spread from 3.1 to 4.1%). The data include some data for
engineering technology faculty; the effect of this on the trends shown
is judged to be limited.
Changes in nine-month salaries as a function of the time from the
awarding of the bachelor's degree are shown in the graph below. Median
salaries for full professors remained essentially constant and those for
assistant and associate professors generally declined.
The spread in salaries between the lower and upper quartiles for
assistant professors and associate professors is essentially the same
over the range of years shown.. The data for full professors exhibit a
larger spread and it increases with time. It is also noteworthy that the
lower quartile for full professors is higher than the upper quartile for
associate professors. This type of gap does not exist between the
associate professor and assistant professor salary data.
Summary
Nine-month salaries for engineering faculty for each of the three
ranks have increased at about 3.7% per year since 1994. This increase
was found for both PhD- and non-PhD-granting engineering colleges. The
difference in median salaries between associate and full professors was
substantially greater than that for assistant and associate professors.
Associate and assistant professor median salaries decreased with time
from the awarding of the bachelor's degree; no variation was observed
for full professors. The spread in upper and lower quartile salaries for
full professors was found to be substantially larger than the spreads
for assistant and associate professors.
Acknowledgment
The salary data in this report originated from the salary surveys of
the Engineering Workforce Commission of the American Association of
Engineering Societies. These surveys are made every other year. Their
most recent report, containing data for the last ten years contains much
more data than are found in this report, including data for individual
engineering disciplines. Their comprehensive report can be obtained via
the EWC/AAES Web site (www.aaes.org).
Footnotes
Engineering Trends data are compiled mainly from information
submitted by universities to the annual surveys of EWC and ASEE. On the
very rare occasions where errors in data appear, Engineering Trends
corrects the error, if possible, or deletes the data if the error is
large enough to alter significantly the trend of the university or the
US total.
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