Academic Year 2008-2009
MIS Salary Survey Results (final)

Editor: Dennis Galletta
University of Pittsburgh

Note: This is not the newest version of the salary survey. Please click here for the 2010-2011 page

Scope

Although this survey can and does represent wages from anywhere in the world, this survey makes use of U.S. dollars for comparing and averaging, and forces respondents to do a one-time conversion, freezing the numbers at a point in time. There are advantages and disadvantages from making these simplifying assumptions, but this (over)simplification has been chosen. Philosophically, also, is the fact that in different countries there are different salary models at work. In the U.S. the modal situation is that a faculty salary is high enough to raise a family quite comfortably. In many other countries, there are large numbers of universities that provide extremely low pay, requiring faculty to supplement their pay with substantial amounts of consulting. This survey is not very meaningful for situations in which you need several other engagements to support a family. In many countries there is wide variance on this issue, and some schools pay comfortable wages for university teaching. For those schools this survey can be useful. Thus, the school, not the country, would determine the usefulness of this survey.

Instructions

To enter your data, use the anonymous or non-anonymous form. Also, you might press the refresh or reload button to make sure you have the latest version.

To analyze these data, download the Excel Spreadsheet with Pivot Table, generously provided by Ido Millet of Penn State Erie. The large spreadsheet is useful for slicing and dicing the data to provide meaning to the data. For example, on the chart page, one useful approach for a U.S. research school looking to see average salaries for an assistant professor would be to click on where it says "All" next to the Country tab, and click USA, click on the "All" next to the Teaching/Research tab and select "research," and finally to click "All" next to "Candidate Education" and select "PhD/DBA." Because major salary points are determined by these three factors, you should select your desired combination of these three selections before drawing any conclusions about salaries. Caution: the sample size might become rather small depending on your combination, making the graph exhibit large swings.

Description

These data represent reports by candidates of their academic job offers in Information Systems for the academic year 2008-2009. A new survey will begin each academic year in September. Please feel free to browse the following:

Results: Excel Spreadsheet

Click here for Excel Spreadsheet with Pivot Table

Results: HTML Tables and Analysis:

Results by Academic Year

[2010-2011 (so far)]
[2009-2010] [Analysis]
[2008-2009] [Analysis]
[2007-2008] [Analysis]
[2006-2007] [Analysis]
[2005-2006] [Analysis]
[2004-2005] [Analysis]
[2003-2004] [Analysis]
[2002-2003] [Analysis]
[2001-2002] [Analysis]
[2000-2001] [Analysis]
[1999-2000] [Analysis]
[1998-1999] [Analysis]

Some entries were submitted non-anonymously; please do not contact me to discover the identity of any of the entries.

Please use these data at your own risk; there is no guarantee that respondents were truthful, entered the data without error, or represent an unbiased sample of the population.

See the cautions below on importing the table into a spreadsheet.

Results so far:

#	Identity revealed?	Years teaching	Educ.	Top Tier* Journal Pubs	Other refereed Journal Pubs	Textooks Published	Research Books Published	Other Publications	Salary	Summer Support per year	Years of Summer Support	Research budget	Moving Support	Course Load	Tenure Req Level (Note 12)	Number of "A" Pubs Required for tenure	Number of Pubs Required for tenure	Position	Campus type	Public or private	Union?	Country	Region	School's highest degree	School's highest accredit.	Accepted?
1	yes	22	Phd/DBA	1	60	11	0	50	99000	0	0	4000	10000	24	2	1	40	full/chair	suburban	public	X	USA	US W.	Masters	National	might accept
2	yes	2	Phd/DBA	0	1	0	0	6	107000	5,000	2	3,000	3,000	5	1		4	Asst	urban	private		USA	US S.	Masters	National	Have accepted
3	yes	1	Phd/DBA	0	0	0	0	4	120000	26667	3	3500	0	4	2	4	10	Asst	urban	public		USA	US M.W.	Doctorate	National	Have accepted
4	yes	1	Phd/DBA	0	0	0	0	10	125000	28000	9	16500	5000	2	3	10	10	Asst	urban	private		USA	US N.E.	Doctorate	National	Have accepted
5	yes	1	Phd/DBA	0	0	0	0	7	96000	8640	3	unlimited	0	4	1	0	5	Asst	suburban	public		USA	unspecified	Masters	National	Have accepted
6	yes	1	Phd/DBA	0	0	0	0	7	115000	10000	2	unlimited	4000	5	2	5	5	Asst	suburban	private		USA	US N.E.	Masters	National	won't accept
7	yes	1	Phd/DBA	0	0	0	0	7	105000	14000	3		5000	4	2	2	7	Asst	urban	public		USA	US S.	Doctorate	National	won't accept
8	yes	10	Phd/DBA	1	14			66	48000			$4000		2.67	2			instructor	urban	public	X	Israel	unspecified	Doctorate	unspecified	Have accepted
9		2	Phd/DBA	0	3			6	110000	12000	3	5000	7000	5	1	2	5	Asst	urban	public	X	USA	US S.	Masters	National	Have accepted
10	yes	12	Phd/DBA						88000	15000	2	2000	2500	6	2	0	8	assoc/not tenured	suburban	public	unspecified	USA	US M.W.	Masters	National	won't accept
11	yes	3	Phd/DBA	0	3	0	0	5	90000	0	0	1200	5000	6	1	0	2	Asst	suburban	public	X	USA	US M.W.	Masters	National	Have accepted
12	yes	12	unspecified						108500	6500	1	2000	2500	6	1	0	8	assoc/not tenured	suburban	public	unspecified	USA	US S.	Masters	National	Have accepted
13	yes	1	Phd/DBA	0	0	0	0	8	120000	26667	3	5000	13333	4	2	4	10	Asst	urban	public		USA	US M.W.	Doctorate	National	Have accepted
14	yes	3	Phd/DBA	1	4	0	0	22	95000	0	0	1000	0	6	2	0	6	switched Asst	suburban	private		USA	US W.	Masters	Regional	Have accepted
15	yes	1	Phd/DBA	0	1	0	0	7	60000			3000	10000	2	2	5	5	Asst	urban	private	unspecified	UK	unspecified	Doctorate	unspecified	Have accepted
16		4	Phd/DBA	0	2	0	0	6	88,000	0	0	1,000	0	8	1	0	3	switched Asst	urban	private	unspecified	USA	unspecified	Masters	National	Have accepted
17	yes	9	Phd/DBA	15	15	1	0	40	150,000	0	0	5000	10,000	3	2	15	30	associate/tenure	suburban	public	unspecified	USA	unspecified	Doctorate	National	might accept
18		3	Phd/DBA	1	2			6	86000	2000	3		2000	6	1	0	7	switched Asst	rural	public		USA	US M.W.	Masters	National	Have accepted
19	yes	3	Phd/DBA	0	4	0	0	6	86000	2000	2	unknown	1000	6	1	0	5	Asst	suburban	public		USA	US M.W.	Masters	National	won't accept
20	yes	3	Phd/DBA	0	4	0	0	6	105000	6000	3	1200	3000	4	2	2	7	Asst	suburban	public		USA	US S.	Doctorate	National	Have accepted
21		3	Phd/DBA	0	1	0	0	3	68000	0	1	0	0	8	1	0	3	Asst	rural	public	X	USA	US N.E.	Masters	Local	Have accepted
22	yes	2	Phd/DBA	1	0	0	0	6	130000	29000	3	2500	5000	3	2	3	9	Asst	urban	private		USA	US N.E.	Bachelor	National	Have accepted
23	yes	3	Phd/DBA	0	0	0	0	2	110,000	12,100	2	3,000	10,000	5	2	1	7	Asst	unspecified	mixed	unspecified	USA	US N.E.	Bachelor	National	Have accepted
24	yes	1	Phd/DBA	0	1	0	0	6	120000	20000	3	3000	5000	2.5	2	3	6	Asst	urban	private		USA	US M.W.	Masters	National	Have accepted
25	yes	1	Phd/DBA	0	1			6	92500	0	0	1000	0	4	1	0	10	Asst	suburban	public		USA	US S.	Doctorate	National	won't accept
26		12	Phd/DBA	0	12	0	0	10	70000	4375	1	1500	0	8	1	0	2	assoc/not tenured	suburban	private		USA	US S.	Masters	Regional	Have accepted
27		8	Phd/DBA	2	12			15	115000	0	0	1500	3000	4	2	2	8	associate/tenure	urban	public		USA	US W.	Doctorate	National	Have accepted
28	yes	1	Phd/DBA	0	0	0	0	3	120000	27000	3	5000	7000	3	2	4	6	Asst	urban	public	unspecified	USA	US W.	Doctorate	National	Have accepted
29	yes	3	Phd/DBA	0	3	0	0	4	91000	0	0	2000	2500	6	2	0	6	switched Asst	urban	public		USA	US S.	Masters	National	Have accepted
30		8	Phd/DBA		20			60	95000	10000	10	10000	12000	12	2	6	12	assoc/not tenured	urban	public		Netherlands	unspecified	Doctorate	National	Have accepted
31		4	unspecified	2	1			5	100000	10	3	2000	20000	4	2			Asst	urban	public		Canada	unspecified	Doctorate	National	Have accepted
32	yes	.5	Phd/DBA	0	3	0	0	4	125000	27777.00	2			4	2			Asst	urban	private	unspecified	USA	US N.E.	Masters	National	won't accept
33	yes	.5	unspecified	0	3	0	0	4	115000.00	14357.00	3	2000.00	3000.00	4	2			Asst	suburban	public	unspecified	USA	US S.	Doctorate	National	Have accepted
34		11	Phd/DBA	21	7	3	0		159000	0		5000		4	2	2	12	full/chair	rural	public		USA	US M.W.	Doctorate	National	Have accepted
35		2	Phd/DBA	1	8	0	0	20	98000	12000	4	2500	2500	6	2		5	switched Asst	rural	public	unspecified	USA	US M.W.	Masters	National	Have accepted
36	yes	3	Phd/DBA	1	0	0	0	7	97500	9300	2	0	3000	5	2	1	6	Asst	rural	public		USA	US S.	unspecified	National	Have accepted
37		2	Phd/DBA						76000				1500	7	1	0	2	assoc/not tenured	unspecified	public	X	USA	US N.E.	unspecified	National	Have accepted
38		1	unspecified	1					137,000	27,000	3	5,000	7,000	3	3	5	7	Asst	urban	public	unspecified	USA	US W.	Doctorate	National	Have accepted
39	yes	1	Phd/DBA						92000	0	0	0	1000	6	2		4	Asst	urban	public	X	USA	US M.W.	Masters	National	Have accepted
40		5	Phd/DBA	4			2	2	43500			2,000		6	2	33%	66%	Asst	urban	public		USA	US S.	Masters	Regional	might accept
41		7	Phd/DBA	4	12		1	13	120000	7000	3	5000	4000	6	2	2	6	assoc/not tenured	urban	private		USA	US N.E.	Masters	National	Have accepted
42		0	Phd/DBA	0	3	0	0	3	59000		1	25000	120000	3	2	0	8	Asst	urban	mixed		South Korea	unspecified	Doctorate	Regional	Have accepted
43		20	Phd/DBA		45	6	4	4	79000			2200		8	2	0	4	full/chair	urban	public		USA	US W.	Bachelor	Regional	Have accepted
44	yes	9	Phd/DBA	3	8	0	0	29	102,000	0	0	30,000	16,000	2	2	3	30	assoc/not tenured	urban	public	X	United Kingdom	unspecified	Doctorate	National	Have accepted

* Top tier: Respondents were asked to provide the number of journal publications accepted (both in print and forthcoming) in journals in this list: (MISQ, CACM, ISR, Management Science, JMIS, Decision Sciences, IEEE Transactions, HBR) (these are journals appearing in the top 10 of over half of the scales shown in the Saunders compilation here on ISWorld, listed above in the order in which they appear in the Saunders list.

Appendix: Data Issues

The following entries were not added to the database for the reasons indicated.

NONE

Identity
revealed?

Years
teaching

Educ.

Top Tier*
Journal
Pubs

Other
refereed
Journal
Pubs

Textooks
Published

Research Books
Published

Other
Publications

Salary

Summer
Support
per year

Years of
Summer
Support

Research
budget

Moving
Support

Course
Load

Tenure Req
Level (Note 12)

Number
of "A"
Pubs
Required
for tenure

Number
of Pubs
Required
for tenure

Position

Campus
type

Public
or private

Union?

Country

Region

School's
highest
degree

School's
highest
accredit.

Accepted?

Recommendations

For analysis, the best approach is to use Ido Millet's (Penn State Erie) Excel Pivot Table analysis tool, available above. If you choose to copy to your own spreadsheet, beware that some of the entries need to be "cleaned" (such as 2/9 for summer support needs to be translated to a dollar amount). If you still want to capture these data yourself, just click and drag all of the cells, copy to the clipboard, then paste into a spreadsheet package. This works well with Excel 97 and above (with Internet Explorer 4.01 and above); but does not work well with Netscape 4* 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." Also thanks to Steven Morris for advice on capturing research requirements independent of teaching loads. Finally, thanks to Shu Schiller for suggesting that numeric fields should be aligned right.

Limitations

The object of interest is offers, which most likely repeats a given individual. 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 individuals.

Notes

The "Identity revealed" field addresses questions of trust in the data; some deans will not use anonymous data as the basis for any salary decisions. Note that the identity is revealed only to me; please do not ask me to violate my pledge of confidentiality.
Salary is Base Salary (exclusive of summer support) in US $
Guaranteed Summer Support is stated in US $, for the period of time shown.
The "research budget" indicates amounts of discretionary spending (including travel, technology, and optional secretarial services, but not including required items such as course software, basic telephone, and copying). If not specified separately, an amount was estimated for maximum travel and technology that would reasonably be supported without special requests (or appeals).
Moving support in US $ also includes any signing bonuses.
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 (3 fall + 3 spring = 6-course) load would be entered as 6
"Public or private" indicates whether a school is perceived to be substantially public, substantially private, or mixed.
Unions often have large impacts on salary, and unionized business schools are often well below market (beyond their control).
School attributes such as country and region can also affect salaries.
The school's highest degree granted in business administration is listed.
Accreditation is listed as national, such as AACSB, regional, such as Middle States, and local, such as state or county.
Tenure requirements levels:
(blank): No tenure system
Level 0: No publications are required
Level 1: Publications are required, but outlet quality does not matter
Level 2: Some outlets are weighted more heavily than others
Level 3: Outlets are weighted, but non-"A" outlets actually can count negatively

Academic Year 2008-2009 MIS Salary Survey Results (final)