Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Trends in Compensation, Job Satisfaction, Discrimination and Advancement,

ISBN 1-57440-143-2.   

The study looks closely at higher education faculty compensation and earnings from salary, and supplementary income from research institutes, writing, public speaking, and consulting.  It also covers faculty satisfaction with compensation, job security, health and retirement benefits, information technology and work environment and relations with students and colleagues, among other job characteristics.  The report also probes faculty attitudes towards advancement and discrimination in academia, querying them on the impact of prejudice related to gender, ethnicity, social class, age, religion, political conviction and other factors.

Data is presented in the aggregate and for 12 criteria including academic field, size of college, type of college, academic title and other factors. The study is based on a probability sample of all full time faculty in North America.

Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:

†      3.07% of the faculty receive a salary or stipend from a research institute affiliated with their college.

†      28.84% of faculty have ever earned income by writing for publications in their field.

†      Approximately 17% of faculty in the USA and 21% in Canada thought their job security was questionable.

†      11X more faculty are happy than unhappy with their relations with departmental peers.

†      Two thirds of faculty are satisfied or highly satisfied with the quality of information technology available to them at their institution.

†      6.63% of faculty sampled said that they had been a victim of sexual harassment in their current or any previous job with their current employer.

†      Faculty at private colleges were far, far more likely than those at public colleges to believe that there was racial bias in their fields.

†      Median income for the faculty in the sample was $70,250.

†      Nearly 82% of faculty who are not on a tenure track say that they would have become academics again if they had the opportunity to revise their decision.

†      Faculty in biology and medicine were the most satisfied with their compensation.

†      Compensation for the faculty in the sample increased by a mean of 2.77% in the past year.

The 240-page study is available from Primary Research Group or from major book distributors. For further information, view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com or call us at 212-736-2316. The report is available for $95.00; site licenses are also available.