National Center for Education Statistics

Number and adjusted 9-month average salaries of full-time instructional staff at Title IV degree-granting institutions, by academic rank, control and level of institution, and gender: United States, academic year 2016-17
Control and level of institution and gender		All ranks			Professor			Associate professor			Assistant professor			Instructor			Lecturer			No academic rank1
		Number	Average salary		Number	Average salary		Number	Average salary		Number	Average salary		Number	Average salary		Number	Average salary		Number	Average salary
All institutions		623,141	$80,447		159,747	$115,568		137,907	$82,092		138,982	$69,757		94,272	$56,899		40,549	$57,734		51,684	$57,018
Public		415,007	78,717		103,399	110,701		88,346	81,378		87,204	70,107		68,712	60,287		30,264	55,545		37,082	56,503
4-year		311,668	84,029		88,744	116,751		78,001	83,777		75,874	72,094		27,319	54,337		29,367	55,618		12,363	57,077
Men		171,923	91,364		61,477	121,201		43,121	86,233		37,438	75,269		11,210	55,988		13,001	58,114		5,676	59,353
Women		139,745	75,005		27,267	106,718		34,880	80,741		38,436	69,000		16,109	53,188		16,366	53,635		6,687	55,144
2-year		103,339	62,697		14,655	74,063		10,345	63,292		11,330	56,807		41,393	64,215		897	53,153		24,719	56,216
Men		46,561	63,613		6,798	75,519		4,436	64,045		4,799	57,372		19,081	64,733		404	53,465		11,043	57,259
Women		56,778	61,946		7,857	72,803		5,909	62,727		6,531	56,392		22,312	63,771		493	52,897		13,676	55,374
Private nonprofit		189,825	87,505		54,837	126,384		48,365	84,102		50,437	69,548		15,495	51,503		10,200	64,277		10,491	62,066
4-year		188,155	87,881		54,747	126,492		48,257	84,153		50,288	69,600		14,398	52,328		10,188	64,283		10,277	62,348
Men		102,590	95,998		37,252	132,093		25,940	86,667		23,565	72,548		6,329	52,143		4,608	67,243		4,896	67,426
Women		85,565	78,148		17,495	114,568		22,317	81,231		26,723	67,001		8,069	52,472		5,580	61,840		5,381	57,727
2-year		1,670	45,203		90	60,230		108	61,304		149	51,889		1,097	40,680		12	58,963		214	48,520
Men		626	44,338		38	59,499		22	59,482		49	46,443		400	42,057		4	58,987		113	42,935
Women		1,044	45,722		52	60,765		86	61,770		100	54,558		697	39,890		8	58,952		101	54,769
Private for-profit		18,309	46,468		1,511	56,099		1,196	53,495		1,341	54,873		10,065	42,072		85	52,154		4,111	48,789
4-year		11,955	50,469		1,444	56,515		1,152	53,883		1,292	55,521		5,317	45,013		83	52,307		2,667	54,094
Men		5,381	49,842		902	57,165		564	52,370		439	54,884		2,224	42,908		65	51,544		1,187	54,110
Women		6,574	50,983		542	55,434		588	55,335		853	55,850		3,093	46,526		18	55,063		1,480	54,081
2-year		6,354	38,940		67	47,128		44	43,335		49	37,765		4,748	38,778		2	45,799		1,444	38,990
Men		2,731	38,236		32	42,148		12	44,631		26	37,393		2,129	37,663		2	45,799		530	40,169
Women		3,623	39,471		35	51,680		32	42,849		23	38,185		2,619	39,684		0	‡		914	38,307

‡ Reporting standards not met. No full-time instructional staff were reported in this category.

1Includes staff at institutions without standard academic ranks.

NOTE: Title IV institutions are those with a written agreement with the U.S. Department of Education that allows the institution to participate in any of the Title IV federal student financial assistance programs. The four U.S. service academies that are not Title IV eligible are included in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) universe because they are federally funded and open to the public. Total full-time instructional staff includes those on 9-, 10-, 11-, or 12-month contracts. Total salary outlays for full-time instructional staff (by rank) on 10-, 11-, and 12-month contracts were adjusted to 9-month outlays by dividing the outlay for the longer contracts by their length and multiplying the result by 9. The “equated” outlays were then added to the outlays for 9-month staff, and the resulting sum was then divided by the total number of staff to determine an average salary for each rank. Salaries for staff on less-than-9-month contracts were not collected. Definitions for terms used in this table may be found in the IPEDS online glossary located at https://surveys.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/VisGlossaryAll.aspx.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS, Spring 2017, Human Resources component (final data).