Trends in Faculty Salaries at UW-Madison and Official Peer Institutions
Last Updated |
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02/07/2025 |
Description |
This visualization provides average faculty salaries at UW-Madison and official salary peer institutions beginning with 2018-19. It also shows the percentage gap between UW-Madison and peer schools/colleges and departments. Users can see the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code used to match departments across institutions in each year. |
Report URL |
https://tableau.wisconsin.edu/#/views/TrendsinFacultySalariesatUW-MadisonandOfficialPeerInstitutions/HomePage |
Data Cookbook URL (requires authorization) |
https://uwmadison.datacookbook.com/institution/reports/57739/versions/76293 |
Data Domain(s) |
Employee Record, UW Madison Enterprise |
Access Restrictions |
Specific / Limited Audience |
Data Source Information |
HRS/EPM |
Update Schedule |
Annually in fall |
Responsible Office |
Data, Academic Planning & Institutional Research |
Important Notes |
Peer salary data is provided through the AAU Data Exchange and is considered confidential; it may be used only for internal purposes by approved audiences. Eleven public universities are official salary peers: University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Los Angeles, University of Illinois, Indiana University, Purdue University, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota‐Twin Cities, Ohio State University, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Washington‐Seattle. Average salary for peer institutions is computed excluding UW‐Madison. Clinical departments in School of Medicine and Public Health are excluded. Salary comparisons were not developed for small UW‐Madison departments (3 or fewer FTE). UW‐Madison faculty are assigned to a department based on their tenure home. Departments are matched across universities using the federal Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP). Some of the CIP codes assigned by peer universities to their departments have been changed for this report in order to increase the size of the peer comparison groups. For this table, if a department has fewer than 3 official peer institutions or 9 peer FTE at the 6‐digit CIP level, comparisons are made to departments at the 4‐digit CIP level. These comparison CIPs are shown on the "Department Comparison CIP Table" dashboard. Faculty members employed on 12‐month contracts are included, but their salaries have been converted to 9‐month rates. |
Definitions
Name | Functional Definition | Data Domains |
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Academic Year (Su,Fa,Sp) | An academic year consists of sequential summer, fall, and spring terms. For example, the 2021-22 academic years includes summer 2021, fall 2021, and spring 2022. |
Academic Planning |
Department (Academic Structure) | An entity approved by academic governance to serve at least one of three academic purposes: serve as the academic home for a plan, serve as the academic home of a subject, or serve as a faculty tenure home. The status of an academic organization as academic owner is established through faculty/shared governance approval process; each plan and subject has one academic organization designated as an academic owner. Academic organizations are tied to the budgetary UDD (A####). |
Academic Planning, Employee Record |
School or College | Those faculty units headed by a dean. The dean is the chief executive officer of the school or college, and is appointed by the chancellor under search and screen procedures as set forth in 6.49. The dean must hold a tenured faculty rank as set forth in Chapter 7 of these rules. Other subunits of the university that include the term "school" in their titles are not considered schools for purposes of this chapter; they may be designated by the chancellor, in consultation with the University Committee, as equivalent to departments for any or all of the purposes described in Chapter 5. A school or college shall be created or discontinued, or the name of an existing school or college changed, by the chancellor after consultation with the University Committee, subject to the approval of the Board of Regents. Creation of a school or college with academic programs at the post-baccalaureate graduate or professional level is also subject to the approval of the legislature. Recommendations concerning these matters shall be reported to the faculties of the schools or colleges directly affected and to the senate for discussion. |
Academic Planning, Employee Record, Research Administration, Student Record |