taken from the October 2003 AAUP AZ Advocate

Faculty Salaries Lagging

by Carol Bernstein, President

Amer. Assoc. Univ. Prof., AZ Conf.

Salaries at the three Arizona public universities, as shown in the graph, have continued to lag behind salaries for faculty at their peer institutions. The dashed line in the graph indicates the 100 percent level for the average salary of all peers for the UA, the main campus of ASU, and for NAU. The peer institutions are those listed on the Arizona Board of Regents’ web site. Since 1986, salaries at the UA, the main campus of ASU, and at NAU have remained below their peer averages. For the past eight years, in particular, salaries, averaged over all ranks of full time instructional (at least 50% time teaching) faculty, remained at about 92 percent of their peers’ average at ASU main campus, 95 percent of their peers’ average at the UA, and at 87 percent of their peers’ average at NAU.

Individual peer institutions for the three campuses, and each of their all-ranks average salaries for the 2002-2003 academic year, are listed in Table 1 on page 3. Salaries are as reported in the American Association of University Professors annual report on the economic status of the profession for 2002-03. This survey reports data for 2,635 institutions (and a total of 3,239 separate campuses) of higher education in the United States.

Academic Year

02-03

ASU and Peers

UCLA

94.6

U Conn (Storrs)

85.6

Rutgers (New Brun)

84.8

U Maryland/Coll Pk

82.9

Ohio State (Main)

78.8

U Texas (Austin)

76.5

U Ill (Chicago)

76.2

Temple U

76.1

U Colo (Boulder)

74.4

U Washington

73.0

U Nebraska (Linc)

72.6

ASU

69.9

U Kansas

68.3

Florida State

68.3

U Cincinnati

67.7

U Oklahoma

62.2

Average of ASU peers

76.1

ASU as % of Peer Ave

91.9%

NAU and Peers

U Delaware

76.9

U Nevada/Reno

72.5

George Mason

71.7

U Nev. Las Vegas

70.3

Calif State Fresno

67.6

Oakland U

63.9

Miami U (Ohio)

63.8

Ohio U/Athens

63.3

Old Dominion

62.1

U Wyoming

61.8

U Minnesota/Duluth

60.8

U Central Florida

59.3

Bowling Green

56.5

U Vermont

55.8

U Montana

55.6

NAU

54.3

Ball state

52.9

U N. Dakota/main

51.8

Average of NAU Peers

62.7

NAU as % of Peer Ave

86.6%

UA and Peers

UC Berkeley

98.6

U Michigan/Ann Arb

83.9

Univ Minn/Twin Cit

83.8

U Wisconsin/Mad

83.1

U Virginia

83.1

U N. Carolina CH

81.6

U Ill Urbana

81.4

U Iowa

80.0

Ohio State main

78.8

Michigan State

77.5

UA

74.6

U Washington

73.0

U Florida

72.7

Texas A&M main

70.0

U Utah

68.9

U Missouri/Columb

60.7

Average of peers

78.5

UA as % of Peer Ave

95.0%