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Today, the AAUP released the Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2025–26. It is sobering. Full-time faculty salaries are down about 0.4% in real, inflation-adjusted terms. Average full-time faculty salaries remain 9.5% below fall 2019 & about 5.8% below fall 2008. 1/

aaup.orgAnnual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession Now AvailableThis year's Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession finds that faculty salaries are still losing ground to inflation and expands data collection on part-time faculty pay.
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Gender-based salary inequity also remained a central finding. Across all full-time faculty ranks combined, women earned an average of $21,386 less than men (or 83.6% of men’s average salary). The widest within-rank gap remained at the full professor level: a salary-equity ratio of 87.3. 2/

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Admin compensation remained another major story. Median presidential salaries ranged from ~$275K at public institutions w/out ranking systems to $850K at private-independent doctoral universities. Presidential compensation ranged from ~3 times to more than 5 times average full professor salary. 3/

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This year’s Annual Report does more than publish annual salary figures. It links compensation to tenure, shared governance, transparency, and the broader educational mission of higher education. Please give it a read. 5/5

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