Highest Professor Salary at U.S. Colleges
Stanford University has the highest professor salary of $288,663 among U.S. colleges followed by The Rockefeller University ($282,854) and Princeton University ($280,268). The average professor salary of the U.S. colleges is $266,818 based on 9-months contract or equivalent data. The following table lists the top 10 colleges with the highest professor salary by contract length. The table is sorted by salary in descending order. The number in parenthesis is the number of faculty for the contract length relatively.
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School name | Equated to 9-Month Contract | 9-Month Contract | 10-Month Contract | 11-Month Contract | 12-Month Contract | |
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1 | Stanford UniversityStanford, CA | $288,663 (604) 7.59% | $290,807 (581) 7.83% | - | - | $312,675 (23) 0.89% |
2 | The Rockefeller UniversityNew York, NY | $282,854 (35) 4.80% | - | - | - | $377,139 (35) 4.80% |
3 | Princeton UniversityPrinceton, NJ | $280,268 (499) 5.10% | $280,268 (499) 5.10% | - | - | - |
4 | Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA | $268,486 (667) 7.39% | $268,486 (667) 7.39% | - | - | - |
5 | Yale UniversityNew Haven, CT | $268,188 (616) 7.19% | $268,319 (612) 7.05% | - | - | $330,850 (4) 21.22% |
6 | Harvard UniversityCambridge, MA | $264,272 (1,015) 4.46% | $260,508 (811) 4.78% | - | - | $372,317 (204) 3.64% |
7 | University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA | $258,150 (608) 4.76% | $258,150 (608) 4.76% | - | - | - |
8 | New York UniversityNew York, NY | $254,385 (807) 6.27% | $263,741 (671) 6.56% | - | - | $277,635 (136) 4.19% |
9 | University of ChicagoChicago, IL | $254,291 (647) 0.92% | $280,442 (490) 2.20% | - | $211,089 (157) 2.27% | - |
10 | University of California-Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA | $248,620 (1,039) 5.02% | $254,004 (964) 5.06% | - | - | $239,211 (75) 4.91% |