Salaries of Full-Time Instructional Staff at Title IV Degree-Granting Institutions in
the United States
Of the nearly 594,000 reported instructional staff, 154,000 were professors, 129,000 were
associate professors, 132,000 were assistant professors, 98,400 were instructors, and 29,600
were lecturers (table 5). The remaining 50,900 instructional staff had no academic rank.
Based on adjusted 9-month average salaries, institutions reported that, on average,
professors earned approximately $104,000, associate professors earned $74,900, assistant
professors earned $63,100, instructors earned $53,500, lecturers earned $54,900, and those
with no academic rank earned $54,400 (table 6).
More men than women were employed as professors at 4-year institutions (table 7). For
example, in 2010-11 there were about 62,500 male professors and 23,100 female professors
at 4-year public institutions, approximately 37,100 male professors and 14,700 female
professors at 4-year private nonprofit institutions, and roughly 1,100 male professors and 500
female professors at 4-year private for-profit institutions.
