Do Profs Earn Enough?

FULL PROFESSORS AT DARTMOUTH earned an average salary of $101,500 last year. Not bad, compared to the $78,912 full profs averaged nationwide in 2000-01, but humble by other standards. According to statistics compiled by the American Association of University Professors, the Dartmouth pay ranked last in the Ivy League and 40th out of the nations 44 universities that paid full profs more than $100,000. (Harvard's $135,200 average topped the Ivies but placed second nationwide, behind Rockefeller University's $138,100). Nonetheless, the Dartmouth salaries, at 4.2 percent above the previous year's, beat the 3.4 percent inflation rate. Salaries for associate profs jumped 4.4 percent to an average of $72,700. Assistant prof salaries rose 11.5 percent to an average of $60,300. Even at that level, Dartmouth's most junior profs earn nearly $13,000 less than their colleagues at the top-paying Ivy, the University of Pennsylvania.

Contributors: Roxanne Khamsi '02, Stella Lee '03and Laura Tepper '02