Information on salaries paid to faculty in higher education in 1977-78 is presented. Data were obtained by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in its 1977-78 Higher Education General Information Survey. Only the salaries paid to faculty employed on 9-month regular academic year contracts are presented. Salary information is…

This report is the fifth in a series covering salary schedules used in 2-year institutions. The salary schedules reported in this study cover 49,271 full-time faculty members. They represent 62.7 percent of total full-time faculty in 2-year colleges in 1971-72. The first section of this report contains an overview of the major types of salary…

In October 1975 all institutions listed in the "Higher Education Directory" were surveyed for frequency distributions of their faculty salaries by rank. The results are summarized in tables. Salaries are given in quartiles according to faculty rank, institution type and size, and geographic region. Some observations and trend analyses are made.…

Data are given for 479 public two-year institutions, 176 public four-year institutions, 296 private four-year institutions, and 47 private two-year institutions. The institutions summarized represent 33.3 percent of the institutions of higher education in the U.S. Some analyses are made of the data according to institution type, region, and…