Preferences Over The Characteristics of Economics Departments

Summary Statistics on Individual Salary Data in the Public Record



Overview:

We obtained, from public records, academic year 01-02 individual salary for 602 academics in departments at the following 22 public schools:

Indiana University-Bloomington, Iowa State University, Michigan State University, North Carolina State University, Ohio State University, Purdue University, State University of New York-Albany, Texas A&M University, University of Florida, University of California-Berkeley, University of California-Davis, University of California-Irvine, University of California-Los Angeles, University of California-San Diego, University of Houston, University of Illinois-Urbana, University of Iowa, University of Maryland, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Texas-Austin, University of Virginia, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Average 2001/2002 salary data, summary statistics for 22 public schools:

Overall

Mean

Median

Min

Max

S.d.

Assistant

 $  73,300

 $  72,000

 $ 55,000

 $144,000

 $ 10,066

Associate

 $  83,300

 $  78,000

 $ 32,000

 $182,000

 $ 22,740

Full

 $120,000

 $115,000

 $ 35,000

 $234,000

 $ 33,289

Top 15

Mean

Median

Assistant

 $  80,700

 $  77,000

Associate

 $120,900

 $114,000

Full

 $144,900

 $147,000

 

16 - 30

Mean

Median

Assistant

 $  69,200

 $  68,000

Associate

 $  84,700

 $  79,000

Full

 $119,500

 $119,000

 

31 - 50

Mean

Median

Assistant

 $  72,900

 $  72,000

Associate

 $  76,500

 $  76,000

Full

 $110,200

 $104,000

Male:
Top 15

Mean

Median

Assistant

 $  80,600

 $  77,000

Associate

 $138,000

 $139,500

Full

 $146,500

 $150,000

 

Male:
16 - 30

Mean

Median

Assistant

 $  69,600

 $  69,000

Associate

 $  83,400

 $  79,000

Full

 $121,200

 $121,000

 

Male:
31 - 50

Mean

Median

Assistant

 $  73,100

 $  72,000

Associate

 $  76,800

 $  77,000

Full

 $110,000

 $104,000

Female:
Top 15

Mean

Median

Assistant

 $  81,000

 $  78,000

Associate

 $103,800

 $103,500

Full

 $135,700

 $141,000

 

Female:
16 - 30

Mean

Median

Assistant

 $  67,800

 $  68,000

Associate

 $  96,700

 $  97,000

Full

 $101,700

 $  99,000

 

Female:
31 - 50

Mean

Median

Assistant

 $  72,400

 $  72,500

Associate

 $  74,500

 $  71,000

Full

 $114,000

 $115,000

Note that some of the summary statistics are based on a small number of observations when broken down by department rank, academic rank and gender.

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