Table 1 Average Salaries at 34 Selected Research Universities in 1997-98, Full Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor Institution Ave Institution Ave Institution Ave 1. Harvard 116.8 Stanford 75.3 Pennsylvania 62.0 2. Stanford 111.0 MIT 70.3 Chicago 61.4 3. Princeton 110.3 Pennsylvania 69.7 MIT 61.0 4. Yale 108.4 NYU 68.4 Harvard 60.9 5. NYU 106.4 Chicago 68.0 Stanford 60.1 6. Chicago 106.0 Northwestern 67.4 Northwestern 58.5 7. Penn. 104.6 CMellon 66.1 NYU 57.2 8. MIT 104.2 Michigan 65.9 CMellon 56.2 9. Columbia 103.6 Duke 65.8 Cornell (E) 56.2 10. Northwest. 101.4 Princeton 65.4 USC 55.9 11. Duke 100.9 Columbia 65.2 Duke 54.3 12. Georgetwn 99.0 Rutgers 64.6 Michigan 53.0 13. CMellon 93.9 Harvard 64.3 Columbia 52.5 14. Berkeley 92.7 Cornell (E) 64.2 Berkeley 52.0 15. UCLA 92.6 USC 63.5 UCLA 52.0 16. Michigan 91.9 Georgetown 61.9 Dartmouth 51.8 17. USC 91.8 N. Carolina 61.8 Hopkins 51.3 18. Hopkins 91.1 Virginia 61.3 Illinois 51.2 19. Virginia 90.9 Hopkins 61.2 Princeton 51.1 20. Cornell(E) 89.9 UC-Berkeley 61.1 Wisconsin 50.6.81.91.92 Source: American Association of University Professors, Academe: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession: 1997-98, 84 (March/April, 1998): Appendix I
R Ithaca Campus Faculty Peers by College (Ivy peers shown in red) Arizona AAP A&S CALS CIS ENG HE HOTEL ILR Johnson Law Vet Brown Cal Tech Carnegie Mellon Chicago Colorado State Columbia Dartmouth Duke Emory Florida Georgia Tech Harvard Illinois Iowa State Maryland Michigan Michigan State Minnesota Missouri MIT Nebraska NC-Chapel Hill Northwestern NYU Ohio State Penn Penn State Princeton Purdue Rice Rutgers Stanford Texas Texas A&M UC Berkeley UC Davis UCLA UC San Diego USC U Washington Vanderbilt Virginia Washington U Wisconsin Yale Appendices 65
Table 2 Average Salaries of Professors and Assistant Professors, by Discipline, Relative to the Comparable Average Salaries for English Language and Literature Faculty in 1980-81 and 2010-2011 Discipline Professor Assistant Professor Business 1.114/1.509 1.318/2.146 Communications 0.967/0.968 1.079/1.060 Computer/Info. Science 1.134/1.284 1.269/1.532 Economics 1.139/1.412 1.161/1.597 Education 0.960/0.957 1.094/1.043 Engineering 1.081/1.252 1.253/1.423 Fine Arts 0.912/0.876 0.995/0.951 Foreign Language 1.009/0.959 1.027/1.001 Health Professions 1.203/1.189 1.265/1.390 Law and Legal Studies 1.332/1.595 1.567/1.716 Library Science 0.985/1.036 1.029/1.141 Mathematics 1.076/1.072 1.066/1.188 Philosophy 1.023/1.021 1.015/0.998 Physical Sciences 1.077/1.129 1.118/1.203 Psychology 1.050/1.089 1.041/1.124 Social Sciences 1.048/1.168 1.067/1.207 All Discipline Average 1.048/1.134 1.138/1.272 Source: Academe (March/April 2011), tables G and H. These data are for a set of primarily land grant universities
Table 3 Faculty Shares Matter Example: Average Salary Varies Across Institutions Solely Due to Disciplinary Differences in Faculty Composition Institution A 90 Humanists $80,000 10 Lawyers $140,000 Average Salary $86,000 Institution B 70 Humanists $80,000 30 Lawyers $140,000 Average Salary $98,000 Share of Faculty Members in Business and Law in 1997-98 Cornell 8.7 Pennsylvania 24.3 Stanford 13.3 Harvard 25.6 Columbia 17.3 3
Table 4 Locations of the 19 Universities at Which Average Salaries for Full Professors Were Higher than Cornell s in 1997-98 University Location 1. Harvard Cambridge, MA (Boston area) 2. Stanford Palo Alto, CA (San 3. Princeton Princeton, NJ 4. Yale New Haven, CT 5. NYU New York, NY 6. Chicago Chicago, IL 7. Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 8. MIT Cambridge, MA (Boston area) 9. Columbia New York, NY 10. Northwestern Evanston, IL (Chicago area) 11. Duke Durham, NC 12. Georgetown Washington, DC 13. Carnegie-Mellon Pittsburgh, PA 14. UC-Berkeley Berkeley, CA (San Fran. area) 15. UCLA Los Angeles, CA 16. Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 17. USC Los Angeles, CA 18. Johns Hopkins Baltimore, MD 19. Virginia Charlottesville, VA
Table 5 Ratio of Professor to Assistant Professor Salaries at Selected Research Universities in Urban Areas and at Cornell in 2017-18 University Columbia 1.99 Chicago 1.93 UCLA 1.92 Stanford 1.87 NYU 1.86 USC 1.85 Northwestern 1.82 MIT 1.79 Harvard 1.75 Berkeley 1.72 Cornell 1.53 Ratio of Professor to Assistant Source: American Association of University Professors, The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession: 2017-2018, Academe March/April 2018, Appendix I (www.aaup.org)
Table 6 Average Full Professor Salaries at Selected Research Universities in 2011-2012 Institution Average Salary Institution Average Salary Harvard 198.4 UC Berkeley 154.0 Columbia 197.8 Michigan 148.8 Chicago 197.8 Rutgers 145.0 Stanford 195.4 North Carolina 144.0 Princeton 193.8 CORNELL(PUB) 143.6 NYU 182.4 Carnegie Mellon 142.0 Pennsylvania 181.6 Virginia 141.6 Yale 180.4 Texas 140.7 Duke 175.3 Johns Hopkins a 139.1 Northwestern 172.1 Illinois 137.2 MIT 171.8 Maryland 136.3 Georgetown 167.1 Penn State 132.1 UCLA 162.6 UC Davis 129.4 Dartmouth 162.1 Minnesota 125.7 CORNELL 161.8 Purdue 125.1 Brown 156.7 Washington 122.7 USC 155.9 Wisconsin 114.7 *Johns Hopkins datum is for 2007-08 and most certainly is a low estimate of its 2011-12 value Cornell Ranks Out of 34 in 2010-2011 Private (Endowed Colleges) 15 th (20 th in 97-98) Public (Statutory or Contract Colleges) 22 rd (34 th in 97-98) Table 6a
Institution Average Full Professor Salaries at Selected Research Universities in 2017-2018 Average Salary Institution Average Salary Columbia 251.3 Brown 183.9 Stanford 246.2 USC 181.6 Harvard 245.8 CORNELL 178.7 Princeton 238.0 Virginia 177.3 Chicago 235.3 Michigan 170.2 MIT 222.8 Rutgers 165.9 Pennsylvania 217.3 Texas 165.6 NYU 214.5 UC Davis 165.6 Yale 214.3 Carnegie Mellon 162.7 Northwestern 211.2 Maryland 160.8 Duke 209.7 North Carolina 159.3 UCLA 204.0 Penn State 157.0 Georgetown 203.4 Illinois 150.5 Dartmouth 196.6 Washington 144.8 Berkeley 191.2 Minnesota 143.4 Johns Hopkins 184.2 Purdue 142.4
Table 7 Average Salaries of Full Professors at Ivy Institutions in 2017-2018 and Endowment Per Student at these Institutions in June 2015 Institution Average Salary (thousands) Endowment Per Student (millions) Columbia 251.3.361 HCOL Harvard 245.8 1.548 HCOL Princeton* 238.0 2.790 HCOL Other Factors Pennsylvania 217.3.427 HFDIST Yale 214.3 1.814 HCOL Dartmouth 196.6.719 LCOL,LFDIST Brown 183.9.271 Brown 178.7.347 LFDIST Where HCOL high cost of living relative to Cornell LCOL low cost of living relative to Cornell HFDIST much greater share of law and bus. profs. than CU LFDIST much smaller share of law and bus. profs. than CU (note across the 8 Ivy schools, the correlation between average salary and endowment per student is greater than 0.47) Source: American Association of University Professors, The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession: 2017-2018, Academe March/April 2018, Appendix I (www.aaup.org)
Table 8 Ratio of Average Salary of Full Professors at the Cornell Contract Colleges to the Average Salary of Full Professors at the SUNY University Centers SUNY Campus 1999-2000 2011-2012 Albany 0.949 1.12 Binghamton 0.984 1.14 Buffalo 0.881 1.06 Stony Brook 0.889 1.02 Source: Annual Salary Issues of Academe