Question about Salaries

[salary]

When it comes to looking up the current salaries of employees of a University, is there any particular place that is the best to look, aside from just googling "Salaries of Professors at __________?"

Thanks for the help!

[friends in low places]

For state schools like WI, if you have friends in the system, they can look up last year's annual salary for any individual working for a school within the system (e.g., a person working at UW-Madison can look up someone's pay at UW-Stout).

[aaup]

Here's a link that's helpful: chronicle.com/stats/aaup/

The salaries are averaged, and usually, sociology salaries are lower than the average but it gives you an idea of the salaries in the college/university.

[friends in low places]

I just looked at the averages on chronicle and have to say that those averages are high for a few institutions I know about, so even though it gives you an idea, it's a real rough estimate. You should know that the type of school (e.g., if there is a med school) will greatly affect the average, and you should take into consideration that some assistant profs have been given raises for their services/achievements since they started working for that institution. The chair at my grad institution told me what they have been hiring people at (and at similar institutions) and I've asked others with "inside information" at other institutions. This gives you a better idea when negotiating so that you don't sound foolish or like a pompous jackass...of course, when you are a "super star", I suppose you can do whatever you want.

[Difference in Discip]

This is very helpful. One question I have about looking at "assistant professor salaries" is that they seem to collapse the sciences with the social sciences. Am I wrong to assume that the salaries of Assistant professors in Sociology are lower than the "average." For example 85 seems very high for a private school or even a public school. Is the range typically 60-80?

Any thoughts?

[state schools]

if it is a state school, you can google "Georgia state employee salaries" or "Minnesota state employee salaries", where the "state" doesn't mean the name of a school, but that the employees work for the state.

In every case that I have done this, I have found some sort of publication that publishes state worker salaries from the prior year. For example, Texas Tribune publishes 2010 salaries for the professers at U Texas. You can simply look up the assistant profs in the sociology department and find their exact salary from last year.

[distribution]

On the "60-80" range: some colleges fall well below 60; I've noticed multiple ads this year specifying low 40s. At the other extreme, some elites certainly start above 80. I wonder what a full distribution would look like...would most salaries still fall within that 60-80 range?

[wellwellwell]

Nov 19, 2011 22:32:16 GMT -5 @distribution said:

On the "60-80" range: some colleges fall well below 60; I've noticed multiple ads this year specifying low 40s. At the other extreme, some elites certainly start above 80. I wonder what a full distribution would look like...would most salaries still fall within that 60-80 range?

Just based on an N of 4 crim folks (me and my 3 friends, all on the market last year), salary seemed to range from low/mid 50's to upper 60's counting CJ/Crim and Soc programs. Higher in the northeast/southwest, lower in the midwest and south.

[Summer Teacher]

I'm curious about pay for summer teaching. Do most departments pay per course for summer teaching or is it proportional to salary? I'm also mostly interested in how much teaching intensive LACs might pay for summer instruction. I'd much rather teach through summers for a little extra cash. Any input is appreciated...

[useful]

^^Thanks for the crim salary info. Other assistants, care to help us out?

[assistant]

Last year (or maybe the year before?), a job ad from a LAC posted a salary of 40K (yes, that was an even 40). A friend of mine also got a job offer last year from a small public in the midwest for 42K, so low 40s is definitely common for teaching intensive schools. R1 averages generally range between 60K and 80K. LACs seem to have the widest range. 40K on the low end (these are relatively "poor" schools), 50K (most common), 60-80K (highly selective LAC; expensive living area; relatively high expectations for research productivity and teaching excellence). These estimates are based on my job offers, friends' job offers or what they are currently making, and what my advisors have told me.

[three]

There are plenty of institutions with salaries in the 40ks.
And some of these are actually in high cost of living areas. SUNY, for example, has a unionized salary schedule, and salaries for assistant professors in the social sciences in the non doctoral branches start at 45k a year.

[LAC]

N=1 and all that but...

I have a job at a S(mall)LAC in a rural area. My contract states that I'm on a 4/4 for $45,000. But the way that some of my courses are calculated in terms of load means that I have built-in overload each semester. There's also a lot of opportunities to pick up extra $$ for doing workshops and trainings, and with summer teaching I will probably make around 50k in 2011. This, in an area with incredibly low COL.