In the U.S., academic salaries at state universities are a matter of public record, but they’re usually very hard to find. Now some of them have been put online. If you’re an academic, go here for hours of fun comparing your pay to everyone else’s.
Gloat as you discover that your scientific enemies make less than you! Cringe as you see how much membership in the National Academy of Sciences boosts your pay! Gnash your teeth when you see Steven Weinberg’s haul at the University of Texas!
Note: you can search by department or the individual’s name (faculty).
But I thought they were all millionaires?
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/07/i_shall_be_looking_forward_to.php
Please check out Miami University in Ohio:
Christopher E. Allison Information Technology Services $8,388,607 2008
Adeed Dawisha Political Science $8,388,607 2008
Maria L. Fantanaresa Intercoll Athletics Admin & General $8,388,607 2008
Bonnie C. Glassberg Decision Sciences & MIS $8,388,607 2008
Dele Jegede Art $8,388,607 2008
Carla Gardina Pestana History $8,388,607 2008
Donald A. Pribble Teacher Education $8,388,607 2008
David Michael Sauter Office Of The Registrar $8,388,607 2008
Richard T. Taylor Chemistry & Biochemistry $8,388,607 2008
Eric K. Goodman English $7,946,700 2008
James Olcott Music $7,728,600 2008
Lukasz Opyrchal Computer Science & Systems Analysis $7,696,600 2008
James W. Hershberger Chemistry & Biochemistry $7,610,600 2008
Kathleen Knight Abowitz Educational Leadership $7,446,200 2008
Cheryl D. Young Lifelong Learning $7,222,200 2008
John R. Stevenson Microbiology $7,164,000 2008
Ann Haley Mackenzie Teacher Education $7,092,400 2008
And that’s just for starters…
I do wonder if a bunch of errors in reporting have sneaked in. The president makes 380k, only.
Scuzzi, but do I correctly recall that the University of Chicago is private? If so, how does that affect what if any requirement to publish salaries?
My understanding has been that private universities, private corporate tyrannies and their ilk do not have to reveal that information. Are private universities tax-exempt and therefore have to reveal such information, like non-profit corporations and other such entitites? Or is that true only if they receive federal money and, if so, would those salaries be “of public record” and as easily accessible as those of public universities?
One might generally expect public university salaries to be lower compared, for example, to the likes of Ivy League schools. And I suspect that small liberal arts colleges would not infrequently be pinched for funds to pay professors.
Private universities report average faculty salaries, by rank, to various bodies for comparison with universities at the same level. (American higher education is hierarchical to an extent that cannot be over-estimated.) They also annually report their six (?) highest salaries (mostly officers) to the Chronicle of Higher Education. This allows presidential salaries to be inflated at roughly the same rate as those of corporate CEOs.
I dunno, the National Academy of Sciences sounds like fun.
You get to just screw the science and make up whatever you know will cater to your dim-witted audience, just like a tabloid reporter!
Steven Weinberg makes a cool $366,455 per year.
Here’s a very quick and dirty take on what I’ve learned by selecting schools and hitting “go” (w/o targetting searches towards individuals). I also was looking at whether top salaries seemed dominated by athletic departments.
Arizona: administrators make money hand-over-fist over teaching faculty.
California, in general: not broken out by department. Dang.
Florida: dominated overwhelmingly by medicine.
Iowa: dominated by admin and athletics
Illinois: there’s an athletic dept. person in there, but mostly medicine. The top earner must be a typo.
Indiana: mostly department heads of all stripes.
MI State: few exceptions, but seems dominated by admin and athletics.
MI Ann Arbor: Law, Medicine teaching faculty over even the university president. Conspicuous lack of anything athletic.
MO: medicine.
NC Chapel Hill… no surprise there. Medicine.
NJ: embarrassing riches lavished on admin and athletics.
NY: admin/medicine
OH-Miami: no way any of that dreck is correct.
OH State: Admin, Med, athletics, in that order.
TX – A&M: admin/athletics. Big time.
TX – Austin: touchdown. With victory dance.
VA – C. Newport : admin
VA – G. Mason : athletics, admin
VA – Madison : athletics, admin
VA – Longwood : admin, business
VA – Old Dominion: admin, econ, IT
VA – Radford : admin, econ, athletics
VA – M. Washington: admin
VA – UV: admin, hand over fist
VA Military: admin, athletics
VA State: admin. The top two are obviously crap figures. Esp. since the top figure of $8,388,607 is the same as the top 10 in Ohio-Miami. Didn’t anybody CHECK this shit out before letting it go live?
VA Tech: admin, athletics
VA William & Mary: admin, business, chemistry, law, anthropology, no huge dominating pattern. I knew that was my kind of place.
WI: cheese & dairy. Just kidding. admin and athletics.
I’d also like to mention that every big-ass crisp flyer and brochure I received after graduating high school in ’82 came from a University in the admin/athletics vein (as I remember).
Now excuse me, while I go vomit.
So, are you saying sports # science? (¬_¬)
There’s science in there, surely… like there’s science in anything. (but especially so in sports medicine, physical therapy, kinesiology, etc.)
Unfortunately, the focus in Americur is on whether your football team kicks the other team’s butt – is higher profile on TV – sells more season tickets as a result… and yes, helps pay the salaries of other staff.
To which I still say… ugh.
Actually I tried to take the game off-field.
Long story short: schools may get money from different contributions (markets).
Now _I_ would pay some of the better researchers or even educators for their effort. But that is me.
I’m pretty sure UofMichigan pays top athletic folks big bucks. But the current president of my alma mater? Doesn’t deserve the salary she’s getting.
Don’t know about med or law school though.
hmmmm….lots of missing data. Named chairs seem missing from a few prominent schools….Not that I even want to know more than I already do…
Facepalm as you see what department the three highest-paid (by far) guys at UT Austin are in?
Then again, maybe it’s because they’re bringing in the money that keeps the rest of the faculty paid. And at least there’s no SOCAS issue involved because, technically, football isn’t a religion.
yeah. Not “technically” a religion.
The most prominent (and probably highest-paid) person from my alma mater (CU Boulder), Bill McCartney founded the “Promise Keepers” religious organization. And like a true fundie hypocrite, he also got an abortion for his daughter when she was knocked up by any number of the players on the team.
Oh Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to tackle the opposing team’s star quarterback to cause irreparable damage to his knees without incurring a penalty on my team.
It’s not only Texas; have a look elsewhere.
Higher education costs too much!
It sucks being a adjunct.
Indeed it does 🙁
A Canadian institution to compare with: http://www.ubc.ca/about/accountability/
Unfortunately, not rankable. President makes 532,105; as for athletics, what are those ‘sports’ things you guys keep talking about?
Administrators definitely not worth the big bucks though, considering how poorly this place is run…
Can someone explain to me what “liberal arts colleges” are? Are they basically small universities? We seem to have a different system up here… (and college here means 2yr applied/technical training)
Private four year colleges. They vary enormously in quality.
PS: Does anyone else feel like a stalker looking these up? >_>
Too much. Especially since I can look up my actual professors’ salaries.
If you really want something to cry about, look at how much the goddamned sports coaches get.
@MadScientist, I totally agree. We live in a culture of “bread and games”.
Quite realistically, I don’t see this changing. Very sad. I feel like we’re living in the dark ages (with gadgets).
Some of this is sobering. At UT Austin, the top three earners are sports coaches or administrators. Mr Brown of Intercollegiate Athletics is paid (I didn’t say ‘earned’) more than twice Weinberg’s salary.
Our recent president here at the University of Washington, Mark Emmert, was the second highest compensated administrator across all public universities. Granted, UW ranks near the top in terms of federal grant money awarded and such. Still, $1.2 million (including allowed income from outside the university) seems a bit overkill for a state employee.
I should mention that his new job is as the President of the NCAA. Based on previous comments in this thread, one has to suspect a pattern …
The database for 2009 UW salaries is here: http://lbloom.net/uw09.html. Note that Emmert’s listed monthly salary is substantially below his actual UW compensation.