National Center for Education Statistics

Table 27. 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 2020–21
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		621,550	$87,419		163,651	$124,222		139,379	$88,122		136,501	$75,692		89,168	$62,850		44,597	$64,964		48,254	$59,897
Public		417,644	85,591		107,158	119,107		90,339	87,678		86,679	76,370		65,261	66,280		32,747	61,284		35,460	59,517
4-year		325,982	90,645		94,317	124,429		80,508	90,133		76,788	78,404		27,421	60,416		31,867	61,282		15,081	61,431
Men		173,611	98,494		61,890	130,055		43,272	93,117		36,665	82,213		11,237	62,519		13,857	63,874		6,690	62,648
Women		152,371	81,703		32,427	113,691		37,236	86,666		40,123	74,924		16,184	58,955		18,010	59,289		8,391	60,461
2-year		91,662	67,616		12,841	80,016		9,831	67,575		9,891	60,580		37,840	70,529		880	61,333		20,379	58,101
Men		40,921	68,380		5,819	81,680		4,136	68,174		4,200	61,312		17,406	70,857		410	62,233		8,950	58,610
Women		50,741	67,000		7,022	78,636		5,695	67,141		5,691	60,040		20,434	70,250		470	60,547		11,429	57,703
Private nonprofit		189,071	94,305		55,192	135,604		48,096	89,490		48,733	74,782		15,110	57,346		11,766	75,261		10,174	63,463
4-year		187,703	94,636		55,157	135,646		48,011	89,524		48,594	74,824		14,202	58,220		11,745	75,281		9,994	63,690
Men		98,511	103,811		36,022	142,630		25,054	92,467		21,479	78,462		6,338	58,428		5,281	78,990		4,337	69,020
Women		89,192	84,503		19,135	122,499		22,957	86,312		27,115	71,943		7,864	58,052		6,464	72,251		5,657	59,603
2-year		1,368	48,914		35	68,984		85	70,526		139	60,131		908	43,671		21	63,862		180	50,849
Men		526	48,264		16	70,928		31	69,890		43	56,808		331	44,612		9	62,454		96	44,940
Women		842	49,320		19	67,347		54	70,891		96	61,620		577	43,131		12	64,918		84	57,602
Private for-profit		14,835	51,096		1,301	62,615		944	60,837		1,089	62,371		8,797	46,861		84	57,499		2,620	51,194
4-year		9,611	55,268		1,238	63,327		920	61,096		1,082	62,459		4,450	50,015		75	59,556		1,846	55,232
Men		4,203	54,192		772	63,225		450	60,203		406	61,600		1,691	47,305		54	61,668		830	52,451
Women		5,408	56,104		466	63,495		470	61,951		676	62,975		2,759	51,676		21	54,124		1,016	57,503
2-year		5,224	43,420		63	48,631		24	50,907		7	48,687		4,347	43,632		9	40,362		774	41,562
Men		2,259	42,506		37	48,878		2	49,122		0	Ø		1,876	42,381		3	40,362		341	42,482
Women		2,965	44,117		26	48,279		22	51,069		7	48,687		2,471	44,582		6	40,362		433	40,838

Ø 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. United States includes the 50 states and the District of Columbia. 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 and are included in this table. 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 collection year’s archived downloadable glossary located at https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data/annual-survey-forms-packages-archived?year=2020.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS, Spring 2021, Human Resources component (final data).