National Center for Education Statistics

Table 07. 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 2022–23
Control and level of institution and gender	All ranks		Professor		Associate professor		Assistant professor		Instructor		Lecturer		No academic rank¹
Control and level of institution and gender	Number	Average salary	Number	Average salary	Number	Average salary	Number	Average salary	Number	Average salary	Number	Average salary	Number	Average salary
All institutions	617,739	$92,641	163,424	$131,111	137,941	$93,312	133,548	$79,828	87,181	$67,051	46,708	$70,303	48,937	$64,157
Public	414,261	90,640	107,218	125,406	89,675	92,852	83,584	80,206	63,297	70,923	34,128	66,647	36,359	63,497
4-year	326,638	95,720	94,498	131,118	80,738	95,261	74,593	82,214	27,350	64,023	33,107	66,701	16,352	66,791
Men	170,803	103,672	60,422	136,972	42,831	98,431	34,589	86,092	11,283	66,045	14,368	69,271	7,310	68,022
Women	155,835	87,003	34,076	120,738	37,907	91,679	40,004	78,862	16,067	62,603	18,739	64,731	9,042	65,795

2-year	87,623	71,705	12,720	82,971	8,937	71,087	8,991	63,544	35,947	76,174	1,021	64,896	20,007	60,806
Men	39,018	72,487	5,678	84,318	3,760	71,895	3,836	64,413	16,481	76,728	476	66,172	8,787	61,009
Women	48,605	71,077	7,042	81,884	5,177	70,500	5,155	62,897	19,466	75,704	545	63,781	11,220	60,647

Private nonprofit	188,468	100,009	54,643	144,222	47,272	94,776	48,701	79,508	15,454	60,392	12,526	80,337	9,872	68,461
4-year	187,209	100,342	54,611	144,267	47,178	94,818	48,573	79,545	14,581	61,383	12,508	80,359	9,758	68,585
Men	96,476	110,045	34,903	151,944	24,263	98,203	20,854	83,491	6,511	61,727	5,692	83,518	4,253	73,439
Women	90,733	90,026	19,708	130,671	22,915	91,233	27,719	76,577	8,070	61,105	6,816	77,721	5,505	64,835

2-year	1,259	50,462	32	67,876	94	74,027	128	65,220	873	43,853	18	65,266	114	57,845
Men	469	51,769	13	77,619	31	72,595	45	60,489	325	47,260	9	62,024	46	51,749
Women	790	49,685	19	61,210	63	74,731	83	67,785	548	41,832	9	68,508	68	61,968

Private for-profit	15,010	55,352	1,563	64,147	994	65,145	1,263	67,168	8,430	50,180	54	52,807	2,706	57,322
4-year	9,704	59,830	1,501	64,340	989	65,238	1,260	67,262	4,358	53,841	50	56,059	1,546	62,939
Men	4,018	58,736	869	65,162	481	63,957	381	67,606	1,647	51,107	30	57,287	610	60,597
Women	5,686	60,603	632	63,210	508	66,451	879	67,112	2,711	55,502	20	54,217	936	64,465

2-year	5,306	47,162	62	59,475	5	46,779	3	27,691	4,072	46,263	4	12,150	1,160	49,835
Men	2,378	47,074	24	50,895	1	37,394	1	46,085	1,632	45,635	0	Ø	720	50,224
Women	2,928	47,234	38	64,893	4	49,125	2	18,494	2,440	46,682	4	12,150	440	49,200

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 U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, and the U.S. Air Force Academy are not Title IV eligible but are included in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) universe because they are federally funded and open to the public; they are included in this table. The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy is Title IV eligible and also 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 IPEDS online glossary located at https://surveys.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/public/glossary. The glossary is primarily focused on terms used in the current IPEDS collection and may not reflect the definitions in effect when the data in this table were collected.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS, Spring 2023, Human Resources component (provisional data).

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