Faculty Salaries 75^th Percentile

The table below shows the faculty salaries 75^th percentile for 07-08 using AAUP and IPEDS data as benchmarks. The DMG method was used to calculate the percentiles for all the states considered, except Massachusetts that used the actual average.

As of March 2009, full-time faculty salaries in Massachusetts are $4,587 below the national 75^th percentile. In order to bridge this gap, Massachusetts’s faculty salaries should increase by 7.27%. It should also be noted that when compared with the average 75^th percentile of public-2 year full-time faculty salaries across the nation, the average salaries for full-time faculty members in Massachusetts’ community college system have been gaining ground since 2005.

	75th Percentiles
	AAUP	IPEDS	IPEDS	IPEDS	IPEDS	IPEDS	IPES	IPES
	97-98	97-98	01-02	02-03	03-04	04-05	05-06	07-08
Texas	40,000	40,150	51,175	48,125	48,479	50,612	51,784	54,724
Florida	41,600	46,350	52,600	54,300	54,300	53,844	56,923	61,693
Washington	42,000	42,000	46,000	50,500	50,970	50,458	49,398	54,251
Ohio	48,300	48,150	53,925	57,025	58,404	61,723	63,887	68,765
Pennsylvania	51,300	50,200	54,300	55,175	56,673	57,405	57,007	57,880
New York	56,500	57,825	52,125	63,300	63,938	66,533	64,725	79,671
Illinois	57,100	57,850	60,900	61,250	64,520	67,314	69,125	72,747
New Jersey	57,700	57,450	59,225	60,650	62,441	63,425	65,171	70,108
Michigan	63,100	64,200	54,175	64,200	72,587	70,182	74,270	74,105
California	63,700	62,950	76,800	69,925	77,989	75,026	76,906	82,450
Average 75^th percentile	52,130	52,713	56,123	58,445	61,030	61,652	62,920	67,639
Massachusetts Average	42,211	42,311	57,064	56,222	55,679	52,623	55,266	63,052