The percentage of faculty members receiving no salary increase this year is 21.2 percent, while 32.6 percent had their salaries reduced, with a median decrease (among those who saw a decrease) of 3 percent. Faculty members at private doctorate-granting institutions were the only ones to see a real increase in average salary — 1.7 percent. The 32.6 percent figure for faculty seeing their salaries reduced is significantly larger than the 8.3 percent decline reported in CUPA-HR’s survey of administrators’ salaries. However, the median decrease for faculty members (3 percent) was about half the size of the median decrease for those administrators who saw a decline (6 percent).

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by Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed.

Posted: March 8th, 2010, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.