The "Faculty Salary Survey" machine-readable data file (MRDF) is one component of the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS). It contains data about salaries, tenure, and fringe benefits for full-time instructional faculty from over 3,000 institutions of higher education located in the United States and its outlying areas. From the file can be derived the total number of full-time faculty, the total salary outlays for them, and the total number with tenure. These data are collected annually by sex, faculty rank, length of contract (9-month or 12-month), and type of institution. Also recorded on an annual basis are data on fringe benefits (i.e., retirement plans, medical/dental plans, guaranteed disability plans, income protection plans, tuition plans, housing plans, social security taxes, unemployment compensation taxes, group life insurance, and workmen's compensation). This survey started with HEGIS-I in 1966 and through HEGIS-XIII (1978-79) was known as the Employees Survey. The 1972-73 and 1976-77 surveys also collected data on the number of part-time, full-time, and full-time equivalents of non-faculty employees (by manpower resource categories). The Privacy Act of 1974 forbids public dissemination of data on salary and fringe benefits for individuals and/or administrators. As a consequence, a suppression algorithm was used on data cells with fewer than three persons in order to create a public-use tape. Annual data files are currently available for years 1971-72 through 1985-86, but there is no file for 1983-84. Variables captured also include information on the name, affiliation, type,and control for each institution, race and sex of the student body, accreditation, highest level of offering, calendar system used, land grant status, enrollment, and city size. POPULATION: Higher education institutions (>3,000). RESPONDENTS: Survey coordinators for higher education institutions. TYPE OF SURVEY: Census Survey; National Survey. FREQUENCY: Annual. YEAR OF FIRST DATA: 1966. (CDM)