This article presents the annual report on the economic status of the profession. This year's report covers three main issues--all perennial problems, but with new analysis based on the latest data--in addition to summarizing the current results from the annual American Association of University Professors (AAUP) survey of full-time faculty…

This article presents the annual report on the economic status of the profession. Although the results of this year's survey of full-time faculty compensation are marginally better than they have been the last two years, 2011-12 represents the continuation of a historic low period for faculty salaries. The overall average salary for full-time…

This survey ascertains how much improvement has occurred in the economic status of the library profession and makes some further studies relating to occupational structure. Data are presented concerning the pyramidal structure of library staff organization, salary increases, observations on the occupational and compensation structure of academic…

Addenda to the annual report on the economic status of college faculty included earnings data from the Census Bureau that compare 1978-79 academic salaries with 1978 salaries and earnings of similar groups of workers. (MLW)

This is the National Education Association (NEA) Research Division's 24th annual report on the economic status of the teaching profession. The compendium of tables and brief descriptive text are divided into three major sections. The first part concerns trends in salaries paid to classroom teachers and other instructional staff members in public…

A survey of 70 departments of journalism revealed that, while women have made some progress with regard to salary, they still posses lower academic ranks than do men. (KS)

Quebec university professors' salaries since 1972 are examined, and mean salaries are used to position them in the province-wide distribution of household private income. Their position in the top groups of income, dating back to at least 1973, is qualified and discussed. (MSE)

The economic status is dominated by the struggle to maintain faculty compensation in the face of continuing inflation, leveling enrollments, and constant or shrinking sources of non-tuition income for colleges and universities. This report is based on data from 2,600 campuses covering the compensation and tenure status of about 360,000 full-time…

Data gathered in 1993 by the Census Bureau as part of the Survey of Income and Program Participation were analyzed to determine the relationship between level and field of training and economic status as of 1993. More than 27% of adults had obtained a degree of some type beyond high school, and the proportion of the adult population without a high…

Tables and narrative analysis are presented for salary trends for all ranks of college faculty in 2,532 public and private institutions. Slight real increases in salary are found, with public institutions behind private colleges. In the past decade, faculty salaries have fallen behind those in the private sector. (MSE)

An analysis of state college and university faculty salaries by region, rank, and discipline during a seven-year period is reported. It reveals that the ranges among salaries have been increasing. (MSE)

Analyzes the trend in real income for professors in the United Kingdom from 1965-75 and concludes that the purchasing power of professorial salaries has fallen about 19 percent. Briefly discusses the impact of this decline on career motivation and professional standards in the academic profession. (JG)

Faculty salary data, based on information collected by the National Center for Education Statistics and the AAUP is reported. Data showed that salary increases averaged 9 percent while the purchasing power of faculty salaries declined more than 20 percent during the last decade. (Author/MLW)

It's not hard to understand why college and university professors might worry about trends in faculty compensation. It may be more difficult, however, to see why those outside higher education should share this concern. But they should. In 2005-06, average faculty salaries increased by less than the inflation rate for the second consecutive year,…

AN ANALYSIS OF FACULTY COMPENSATIONS SHOWS THAT THE OVERALL PERCENTAGE INCREASE DROPPED FROM 7.3 PERCENT IN 1965-66 TO 6.8 PERCENT IN 1966-67. THESE FIGURES, HOWEVER, DO NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT INCREASES WHICH RESULT FROM PROMOTION OF INDIVIDUALS, AND THUS THEY UNDERSTATE THE INDIVIDUAL'S INCREASED COMPENSATION. THE PERFORMANCE OF INSTITUTIONS IN…