Finding Faculty Salary Information: Faculty Compensation: Nationwide Trends

View trends, gender breakdowns, and comparisons of faculty salaries at 1,156 institutions from the AAUP’s Faculty Salary Survey.

The BLS provides a large amount of information on the wages, earnings, and benefits of workers, including postsecondary educators. Information is categorized by geographic area (national, regional, state, metropolitan area, or county data), occupation, industry, and additional categories such as age, sex, or union membership in some cases. National estimates, along with industry, state, and metropolitan profiles provide the top paying industries, states, and metropolitan areas for each occupatio

Faculty Salary Survey for Four-Year Colleges and Universities By Discipline, Rank and Tenure Status. Executive Summary available free online.

Based mostly upon surveys and activities carried out by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), provides numerous data on full-time and part-time instructional faculty at two-year and four-year degree-granting institutions. Salary data includes average base and annual salaries of full-time instructional faculty on 9-month contracts by various characteristics such as age, sex, rank, institution, field of instruction, and state. Average salaries available from 1970-2000.

Resources, reports, and surveys from the National Education Association (NEA) Almanac of Higher Education containing summaries and extensive analysis of recent data on college and university faculty salaries. Issues covered include gender discrimination, the relationship between salary and rank, and the relationship between salary and academic specialization. Includes state salary survey results.