Table 314.30.

Employees in degree-granting postsecondary institutions, by employment status, sex, control and level of institution, and primary occupation: Fall 2019

Control and level of institution and primary occupation	Full-time and part-time					Full-time				Part-time
	Total		Males	Females		Total		Males	Females	Total	Males	Females
	Number	Percentage distri- bution		Number	Percent of all employees	Number	Percent of all employees
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
All institutions	3,958,330	100.0	1,770,211	2,188,119	55.3	2,590,550	65.4	1,145,639	1,444,911	1,367,780	624,572	743,208
Faculty (instruction/research/public service)	1,548,726	39.1	768,434	780,292	50.4	843,750	54.5	445,585	398,165	704,976	322,849	382,127
Instruction	1,424,083	36.0	701,101	722,982	50.8	738,033	51.8	387,320	350,713	686,050	313,781	372,269
Research	93,567	2.4	52,589	40,978	43.8	81,895	87.5	46,617	35,278	11,672	5,972	5,700
Public service	31,076	0.8	14,744	16,332	52.6	23,822	76.7	11,648	12,174	7,254	3,096	4,158
Graduate assistants	384,733	9.7	195,335	189,398	49.2	†	†	†	†	384,733	195,335	189,398
Librarians, curators, and archivists	40,694	1.0	12,109	28,585	70.2	34,377	84.5	10,434	23,943	6,317	1,675	4,642
Student and academic affairs and other education     services	186,234	4.7	58,407	127,827	68.6	128,073	68.8	36,871	91,202	58,161	21,536	36,625
Management	266,352	6.7	114,150	152,202	57.1	259,417	97.4	111,383	148,034	6,935	2,767	4,168
Business and financial operations	227,520	5.7	61,879	165,641	72.8	214,382	94.2	58,259	156,123	13,138	3,620	9,518
Computer, engineering, and science	242,069	6.1	144,981	97,088	40.1	224,109	92.6	136,984	87,125	17,960	7,997	9,963
Community, social service, legal, arts, design,     entertainment, sports, and media	192,819	4.9	85,268	107,551	55.8	157,978	81.9	68,147	89,831	34,841	17,121	17,720
Healthcare practitioners and technicians	115,116	2.9	33,582	81,534	70.8	97,476	84.7	29,137	68,339	17,640	4,445	13,195
Service occupations	242,402	6.1	137,869	104,533	43.1	204,801	84.5	117,655	87,146	37,601	20,214	17,387
Sales and related occupations	12,200	0.3	4,121	8,079	66.2	9,852	80.8	3,428	6,424	2,348	693	1,655
Office and administrative support	407,266	10.3	71,410	335,856	82.5	331,757	81.5	50,565	281,192	75,509	20,845	54,664
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance	73,277	1.9	67,196	6,081	8.3	69,056	94.2	64,251	4,805	4,221	2,945	1,276
Production, transportation, and material moving	18,922	0.5	15,470	3,452	18.2	15,522	82.0	12,940	2,582	3,400	2,530	870
Public 4-year	2,062,708	100.0	940,690	1,122,018	54.4	1,415,121	68.6	639,292	775,829	647,587	301,398	346,189
Faculty (instruction/research/public service)	684,301	33.2	352,252	332,049	48.5	451,856	66.0	245,098	206,758	232,445	107,154	125,291
Instruction	610,228	29.6	312,438	297,790	48.8	388,900	63.7	210,861	178,039	221,328	101,577	119,751
Research	57,159	2.8	31,879	25,280	44.2	48,379	84.6	27,380	20,999	8,780	4,499	4,281
Public service	16,914	0.8	7,935	8,979	53.1	14,577	86.2	6,857	7,720	2,337	1,078	1,259
Graduate assistants	299,229	14.5	151,787	147,442	49.3	†	†	†	†	299,229	151,787	147,442
Librarians, curators, and archivists	18,510	0.9	5,723	12,787	69.1	16,741	90.4	5,207	11,534	1,769	516	1,253
Student and academic affairs and other education     services	75,977	3.7	23,293	52,684	69.3	58,044	76.4	16,726	41,318	17,933	6,567	11,366
Management	125,554	6.1	55,378	70,176	55.9	122,196	97.3	54,008	68,188	3,358	1,370	1,988
Business and financial operations	137,211	6.7	37,732	99,479	72.5	128,872	93.9	35,423	93,449	8,339	2,309	6,030
Computer, engineering, and science	151,494	7.3	90,595	60,899	40.2	140,252	92.6	85,925	54,327	11,242	4,670	6,572
Community, social service, legal, arts, design,     entertainment, sports, and media	93,967	4.6	39,208	54,759	58.3	81,685	86.9	33,781	47,904	12,282	5,427	6,855
Healthcare practitioners and technicians	76,941	3.7	23,029	53,912	70.1	67,088	87.2	20,892	46,196	9,853	2,137	7,716
Service occupations	130,364	6.3	69,989	60,375	46.3	115,146	88.3	62,541	52,605	15,218	7,448	7,770
Sales and related occupations	2,782	0.1	952	1,830	65.8	1,984	71.3	696	1,288	798	256	542
Office and administrative support	205,615	10.0	35,858	169,757	82.6	174,414	84.8	26,922	147,492	31,201	8,936	22,265
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance	48,119	2.3	44,418	3,701	7.7	45,700	95.0	42,687	3,013	2,419	1,731	688
Production, transportation, and material moving	12,644	0.6	10,476	2,168	17.1	11,143	88.1	9,386	1,757	1,501	1,090	411
Public 2-year	551,700	100.0	232,522	319,178	57.9	270,906	49.1	109,443	161,463	280,794	123,079	157,715
Faculty (instruction/research/public service)	299,739	54.3	135,932	163,807	54.6	99,129	33.1	44,398	54,731	200,610	91,534	109,076
Instruction	296,397	53.7	134,726	161,671	54.5	98,620	33.3	44,252	54,368	197,777	90,474	107,303
Research	129	#	44	85	65.9	108	83.7	37	71	21	7	14
Public service	3,213	0.6	1,162	2,051	63.8	401	12.5	109	292	2,812	1,053	1,759
Graduate assistants	16	#	13	3	18.8	†	†	†	†	16	13	3
Librarians, curators, and archivists	5,273	1.0	1,245	4,028	76.4	3,297	62.5	817	2,480	1,976	428	1,548
Student and academic affairs and other education     services	49,271	8.9	16,786	32,485	65.9	21,790	44.2	6,301	15,489	27,481	10,485	16,996
Management	31,721	5.7	12,883	18,838	59.4	30,672	96.7	12,471	18,201	1,049	412	637
Business and financial operations	16,560	3.0	4,204	12,356	74.6	14,652	88.5	3,577	11,075	1,908	627	1,281
Computer, engineering, and science	14,968	2.7	10,233	4,735	31.6	12,684	84.7	8,844	3,840	2,284	1,389	895
Community, social service, legal, arts, design,     entertainment, sports, and media	23,140	4.2	8,717	14,423	62.3	16,220	70.1	5,702	10,518	6,920	3,015	3,905
Healthcare practitioners and technicians	1,541	0.3	575	966	62.7	733	47.6	315	418	808	260	548
Service occupations	31,636	5.7	21,623	10,013	31.7	22,274	70.4	15,753	6,521	9,362	5,870	3,492
Sales and related occupations	1,575	0.3	409	1,166	74.0	891	56.6	237	654	684	172	512
Office and administrative support	69,294	12.6	13,790	55,504	80.1	42,808	61.8	5,784	37,024	26,486	8,006	18,480
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance	5,726	1.0	5,144	582	10.2	5,043	88.1	4,665	378	683	479	204
Production, transportation, and material moving	1,240	0.2	968	272	21.9	713	57.5	579	134	527	389	138
Private nonprofit 4-year	1,224,093	100.0	550,319	673,774	55.0	844,986	69.0	374,391	470,595	379,107	175,928	203,179
Faculty (instruction/research/public service)	492,521	40.2	250,659	241,862	49.1	275,404	55.9	148,515	126,889	217,117	102,144	114,973
Instruction	445,390	36.4	224,384	221,006	49.6	233,206	52.4	124,658	108,548	212,184	99,726	112,458
Research	36,210	3.0	20,637	15,573	43.0	33,360	92.1	19,177	14,183	2,850	1,460	1,390
Public service	10,921	0.9	5,638	5,283	48.4	8,838	80.9	4,680	4,158	2,083	958	1,125
Graduate assistants	85,125	7.0	43,404	41,721	49.0	†	†	†	†	85,125	43,404	41,721
Librarians, curators, and archivists	16,024	1.3	4,929	11,095	69.2	13,748	85.8	4,266	9,482	2,276	663	1,613
Student and academic affairs and other education     services	49,581	4.1	15,004	34,577	69.7	37,912	76.5	10,963	26,949	11,669	4,041	7,628
Management	99,652	8.1	41,944	57,708	57.9	97,334	97.7	41,043	56,291	2,318	901	1,417
Business and financial operations	69,574	5.7	18,800	50,774	73.0	66,884	96.1	18,159	48,725	2,690	641	2,049
Computer, engineering, and science	73,979	6.0	42,876	31,103	42.0	69,628	94.1	41,000	28,628	4,351	1,876	2,475
Community, social service, legal, arts, design,     entertainment, sports, and media	72,496	5.9	35,958	36,538	50.4	57,394	79.2	27,599	29,795	15,102	8,359	6,743
Healthcare practitioners and technicians	36,325	3.0	9,835	26,490	72.9	29,419	81.0	7,817	21,602	6,906	2,018	4,888
Service occupations	78,055	6.4	44,696	33,359	42.7	65,830	84.3	38,343	27,487	12,225	6,353	5,872
Sales and related occupations	3,662	0.3	1,253	2,409	65.8	2,953	80.6	1,034	1,919	709	219	490
Office and administrative support	123,302	10.1	19,842	103,460	83.9	107,039	86.8	16,222	90,817	16,263	3,620	12,643
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance	18,908	1.5	17,206	1,702	9.0	17,876	94.5	16,532	1,344	1,032	674	358
Production, transportation, and material moving	4,889	0.4	3,913	976	20.0	3,565	72.9	2,898	667	1,324	1,015	309
Private nonprofit 2-year	7,312	100.0	2,682	4,630	63.3	5,165	70.6	1,804	3,361	2,147	878	1,269
Faculty (instruction/research/public service)	3,296	45.1	1,304	1,992	60.4	1,608	48.8	612	996	1,688	692	996
Instruction	3,287	45.0	1,299	1,988	60.5	1,602	48.7	608	994	1,685	691	994
Research	6	0.1	4	2	33.3	4	66.7	3	1	2	1	1
Public service	3	#	1	2	66.7	2	66.7	1	1	1	0	1
Graduate assistants	0	0	0	0	†	†	†	†	†	0	0	0
Librarians, curators, and archivists	92	1.3	19	73	79.3	68	73.9	17	51	24	2	22
Student and academic affairs and other education     services	1,394	19.1	405	989	70.9	1,307	93.8	371	936	87	34	53
Management	729	10.0	320	409	56.1	684	93.8	294	390	45	26	19
Business and financial operations	220	3.0	61	159	72.3	191	86.8	58	133	29	3	26
Computer, engineering, and science	130	1.8	101	29	22.3	124	95.4	96	28	6	5	1
Community, social service, legal, arts, design,     entertainment, sports, and media	206	2.8	123	83	40.3	141	68.4	75	66	65	48	17
Healthcare practitioners and technicians	26	0.4	7	19	73.1	9	34.6	4	5	17	3	14
Service occupations	201	2.7	146	55	27.4	130	64.7	98	32	71	48	23
Sales and related occupations	443	6.1	96	347	78.3	435	98.2	94	341	8	2	6
Office and administrative support	524	7.2	59	465	88.7	430	82.1	54	376	94	5	89
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance	47	0.6	38	9	19.1	38	80.9	31	7	9	7	2
Production, transportation, and material moving	4	0.1	3	1	25.0	0	#	0	0	4	3	1
Private for-profit 4-year	90,655	100.0	36,167	54,488	60.1	40,665	44.9	15,731	24,934	49,990	20,436	29,554
Faculty (instruction/research/public service)	56,837	62.7	23,555	33,282	58.6	10,661	18.8	4,700	5,961	46,176	18,855	27,321
Instruction	56,788	62.6	23,540	33,248	58.5	10,644	18.7	4,693	5,951	46,144	18,847	27,297
Research	30	#	11	19	63.3	13	43.3	6	7	17	5	12
Public service	19	#	4	15	78.9	4	21.1	1	3	15	3	12
Graduate assistants	363	0.4	131	232	63.9	†	†	†	†	363	131	232
Librarians, curators, and archivists	660	0.7	164	496	75.2	434	65.8	108	326	226	56	170
Student and academic affairs and other education     services	8,012	8.8	2,444	5,568	69.5	7,204	89.9	2,102	5,102	808	342	466
Management	6,313	7.0	2,660	3,653	57.9	6,192	98.1	2,614	3,578	121	46	75
Business and financial operations	3,089	3.4	873	2,216	71.7	2,974	96.3	843	2,131	115	30	85
Computer, engineering, and science	1,312	1.4	1,014	298	22.7	1,259	96.0	972	287	53	42	11
Community, social service, legal, arts, design,     entertainment, sports, and media	2,895	3.2	1,235	1,660	57.3	2,435	84.1	966	1,469	460	269	191
Healthcare practitioners and technicians	228	0.3	107	121	53.1	191	83.8	89	102	37	18	19
Service occupations	1,759	1.9	1,159	600	34.1	1,201	68.3	784	417	558	375	183
Sales and related occupations	2,597	2.9	1,012	1,585	61.0	2,537	97.7	988	1,549	60	24	36
Office and administrative support	6,100	6.7	1,432	4,668	76.5	5,187	85.0	1,255	3,932	913	177	736
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance	352	0.4	275	77	21.9	293	83.2	235	58	59	40	19
Production, transportation, and material moving	138	0.2	106	32	23.2	97	70.3	75	22	41	31	10
Private for-profit 2-year	21,862	100.0	7,831	14,031	64.2	13,707	62.7	4,978	8,729	8,155	2,853	5,302
Faculty (instruction/research/public service)	12,032	55.0	4,732	7,300	60.7	5,092	42.3	2,262	2,830	6,940	2,470	4,470
Instruction	11,993	54.9	4,714	7,279	60.7	5,061	42.2	2,248	2,813	6,932	2,466	4,466
Research	33	0.2	14	19	57.6	31	93.9	14	17	2	0	2
Public service	6	#	4	2	33.3	0	0	0	0	6	4	2
Graduate assistants	0	0	0	0	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
Librarians, curators, and archivists	135	0.6	29	106	78.5	89	65.9	19	70	46	10	36
Student and academic affairs and other education     services	1,999	9.1	475	1,524	76.2	1,816	90.8	408	1,408	183	67	116
Management	2,383	10.9	965	1,418	59.5	2,339	98.2	953	1,386	44	12	32
Business and financial operations	866	4.0	209	657	75.9	809	93.4	199	610	57	10	47
Computer, engineering, and science	186	0.9	162	24	12.9	162	87.1	147	15	24	15	9
Community, social service, legal, arts, design,     entertainment, sports, and media	115	0.5	27	88	76.5	103	89.6	24	79	12	3	9
Healthcare practitioners and technicians	55	0.3	29	26	47.3	36	65.5	20	16	19	9	10
Service occupations	387	1.8	256	131	33.9	220	56.8	136	84	167	120	47
Sales and related occupations	1,141	5.2	399	742	65.0	1,052	92.2	379	673	89	20	69
Office and administrative support	2,431	11.1	429	2,002	82.4	1,879	77.3	328	1,551	552	101	451
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance	125	0.6	115	10	8.0	106	84.8	101	5	19	14	5
Production, transportation, and material moving	7	#	4	3	42.9	4	57.1	2	2	3	2	1

†Not applicable.

#Rounds to zero.

NOTE: Data in this table represent the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. By definition, all graduate assistants are part time. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2020, Human Resources component, Fall Staff section. (This table was prepared March 2021.)