1998 MIS Faculty Salary Survey Results

Editor: Dennis Galletta
VP of Member Services
University of Pittsburgh

Instructions

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Description

These data represent reports by candidates of their academic job offers in Information Systems for the academic year 1998-1999. A new survey will begin for the next academic year in September 1998.

Results:

The final results are now available in Excel 4 format, including some analysis. Further analysis is available at www.pitt.edu/~galletta/1998anal.html. The data in HTML, sorted by submission number, are below.

# Salary Summer
Support
Moving
Support
Course
Load
Position Campus
type
Country Accepted?
170,000 1000 10 associate urban won't accept
235,000 0 1500 8 associate suburban might accept
345,000 6 Asst urban Have accepted
465,000 4000 6 switched Asst urban Have accepted
570,000 6,000 5 Asst suburban might accept
675,000 16,667 35004 Asst suburban USA might accept
764,000 7,111 05 Asst urbanUSA Have accepted
875,000 17,000 3,5004 Asst urbanUSA might accept
965,000 3,000 3,0006 Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
1062,000 0 06 Asst suburbanUSA won't accept
1161,500 6,000 5,0005 Asst suburbanUSA won't accept
1264,000 6,000 3,2005 Asst suburbanUSA might accept
1369,000 12,420 5 Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
1460,000 0 05 Asst urbanUSA might accept
1572,000 12,960 1,5005 Asst suburbanUSA won't accept
1663,000 12,600 4,2005 associate suburbanCanada Have accepted
1772,000 12,960 5,0005 switched Asst suburbanUSA won't accept
1876000 9,500 3,5005 Asst suburbanUSA won't accept
1968000 13,600 2,0006 Asst suburbanUSA won't accept
2065000 7,875 3,0006 Asst urbanUSA Have accepted
2174,000 13,000 2,5004 Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
2270,000 15,000 4 Asst urbanUSA Have accepted
2370,000 6,300 04 switched Asst suburbanUSA might accept
2445,000 2,0004 switched Asst urbanCanada unspecified
2562,000 6 Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
2681,000 18,000 5003 Asst urbanUSA might accept
2772,000 6,000 3,0004 Asst unspecifiedUSA might accept
2876,000 19,000 5,0002-3 Asst urbanNOT North America won't accept
2975000 16667 83334 Asst suburbanUSA won't accept
3063000 4000 350005 Asst urbanUSA might accept
3167000 0 10004 Asst suburbanUSA won't accept
3270000 15000 Actual Expenses4 Asst urbanUSA won't accept
3360,000 12,000 06 Asst urbanUSA might accept
3465,000 7,222 1,0005 Asst urbanUSA Have accepted
3565,000 13,000 NA6 Asst urbanUSA Have accepted
3678,000 16,000 5,0004 switched Asst suburbanUSA won't accept
3780,000 16,000 4,5004 switched Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
3876,000 15,200 3,0004 switched Asst urbanUSA won't accept
3985,000 17,000 5,0004 switched Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
4062,000 0 06 Asst suburbanUSA won't accept
4150,000 0 2,0006.5 Asst suburbanUSA won't accept
4265,000 0 5,0004 Asst urbanUSA won't accept
4384,000 18,667 all costs4 switched Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
4477,000 17,111 all costs4 switched Asst suburban USA won't accept
4582,000 16,400 4,0004 switched Asst suburbanUSA might accept
4663,000 0 2,0006 Asst suburbanUSA won't accept
4765,000 7,200 4,00003/3 Asst suburbanUSA won't accept
4865,000 0 4,0002/3 Asst urbanUSA won't accept
4965,000 0 1,0005 Asst suburbanUSA might accept
5068,000 5,000 5,0002/3 Asst urbanUSA Have accepted
5184,000 7,000 9,0005 associate urbanUSA won't accept
5285,000 0 0 Asst urbanUSA Have accepted
5375,500 16,000 2504 Asst urbanUSA won't accept
5475,000 16,667 3,0004 Asst urbanUSA Have accepted
5565,000 0 2,0006 switched Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
5663,000 0 2,0006 switched Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
5771,000 16,000 9,0003.5 Asst urbanUSA won't accept
5879,000 10,000 4 Asst suburbanUSA won't accept
5980,000 18,000 3,5003 Asst urbanUSA Have accepted
6085,000 19,000 5,0003 Asst urban won't accept
6176,000 10,000 2 Asst suburbanNot USA won't accept
6270,000 8,000 3,0004 Asst suburbanUSA might accept
6372,000 8,000 Actual4 Asst suburbanUSA might accept
6461,000 5,400 06 Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
6563,000 4,000 2,5005 Asst urbanUSA won't accept
6670,000 8,000 3,0004 Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
6763,000 9,500 ?4 Asst urbanUSA won't accept
6868,000 6,800 1,0006 Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
6984,000 18,667 6,0003 switched Asst urbanUSA Have accepted
7066,000 13,200 6,6004 Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
7175,000 15,000 5,0004 Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
7265,000 6,000 3,5005 Asst suburbanUSA won't accept
7368,000 5,000 3,0005 Asst urbanUSA won't accept
7468,000 2,500 2,0006 Asst suburbanUSA won't accept
7570,000 15,556 4,0004 Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
7665,000 8,000 3,0005 Asst urbanUSA Have accepted
7772,000 3,000 2,0003 associate suburbanUSA won't accept
7868,000 0 6 switched Asst suburbanUSA won't accept
7967,000 6,000x3 3,0006 Asst urbanUSA won't accept
8060,000 0 1,5004 Asst urbanCanada might accept
8168,000 6,500 2,0004 Asst urbanUS Have accepted
8272,000 16,000 4,0004 Asst urbanUSA Have accepted
8365,000 0 4,0004 Asst suburbanUSA won't accept
8462,000 15,500 05 Asst urbanUSA Have accepted
8565,000 4,000 2,5005 Asst urbanUSA Have accepted
8665,000 0 actual cost6 Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
8765,000 4,000 2,0006 Asst urbanUS Have accepted
8864,000 8,000 7,1004.5 switched Asst hard to tellUSA won't accept
8965,000 0 3,0009 switched Asst urbanUSA won't accept
9070,000 10,000 4,0006 switched Asst urbanUSA Have accepted
9174,000 16,000 4,0004 Asst suburbanusa Have accepted
9265,000 5,000 3,0006 switched Asst urbanUSA won't accept
9385,000 10,000 5,0005 associate urbanUS won't accept
9473,000 8,000 2,5004 switched Asst urbanUSA Have accepted
9560,000 6,000 1,5006 switched Asst suburbanUSA won't accept
9672,000 0 3,0004 Visitor suburbanUSA Have accepted
9772,000 14,000 3,0003.75 switched Asst urbanUSA won't accept
9865,000 5,000 3,0005 switched Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
9960,000 1,0006 switched Asst suburbanUSA won't accept
10067000 10000 45006 switched Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
10178,500 5,000 3,0006 associate suburbanU.S.A. won't accept
10290,000 20,000 10,0004 switched Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
10355,000 6,000 024 Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
10465,000 0 2,0006 switched Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
10552,000 0 06 Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
10685,000 5,000 3,0004 associate urbanUSA won't accept
10769,000 7500 4 switched Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted
10859,000 6,600 3,0006 Asst suburbanUSA won't accept
10971,000 12,000 5,0005 Asst suburbanUSA Have accepted

Recommendations

Click and drag all of the cells, copy to the clipboard, then paste into a spreadsheet package. This works perfectly with Excel 97 (with Internet Explorer 4.01); but does not work well Netscape* or when using Lotus1-2-3 version 97 (even when parsing columns). You can then analyze the data by sorting by fields of interest, removing rows, computing averages, etc. One very practical approach for department heads to argue for parity is to focus only on schools with teaching loads similar to yours.

*Note: Thanks are in order for Mary Brabston and Vance Cooney. Mary helped me learn about the incompatibility between Netscape and Excel for the procedure outlined above. Vance Cooney of Xavier offers a remedy: "Since I use Netscape exclusively, I saved it as a text file then opened the saved file in Word and did some global replaces to clean it up for import. Once in a database program like Access or FileMaker Pro its cake to select by rank and/or load etc. to slice and dice the data."

Limitations

The object of interest is offers, which might contain duplicates. If this concerns you, sort by the "accepted" field before using the data, then concentrate on "Have accepted" in your analysis; these will be unique records. Also, there is not a time period associated with teaching load or summer support, and it is too late to add this field (sorry, Varun Grover)! Finally, after the site was up for 10 hours (5 submissions between midnight and 8 AM EST), an excellent suggestion by Rita Walczuch caused me to bite the bullet and add the "country" field. The odd results in the first 3 offers are nearly impossible to interpret without it. Subsequent suggestions probably need to wait for future years, given the impracticality of converting the data.

Notes

  1. Salary is Base Salary (exclusive of summer support) in US $
  2. Guaranteed Summer Support is stated in US $
  3. Moving support in US $ also includes any signing bonuses
  4. Course load is an annual teaching load, stated in semester-course equivalents, defined as number of 3-credit semester courses (roughly 3 hrs/week, 15 weeks) to be taught. Thus, a 3+3 load would be entered as 6
  5. Position is a selection from the options: "Instructor" (Instructor or lecturer); "Asst" (new assistant professor; first job); "Switched Asst" (Assistant professor who switched jobs); "associate;" and "full/chair"
  6. Acceptance choices include "have accepted," "might accept," and "won't accept."