Average Faculty Salary for Maryland Colleges by Academic Rank
The average faculty salary at Maryland Colleges for the 2025 academic year is $88,952 across all academic ranks. Compared to the previous year, faculty salaries have changed as follows:
- Professor salary: $110,312 (up 2.31% from 2024)
- Associate professor salary: $94,094 (up 2.71% from 2024)
- Assistant professor salary: $81,624 (up 1.33% from 2024)
- Instructor salary: $73,708 (up 4.95% from 2024)
- Lecturer salary: $70,268 (up 9.42% from 2024)
- No academic rank salary: $96,514 (up 16.19% from 2024)
Average faculty salary by institution type:
- R1 research universities: $147,506 (year-over-year change: +4.19%)
- R2 research universities: $100,422 (year-over-year change: +4.13%)
- Master's degree colleges and universities: $84,697 (year-over-year change: +3.02%)
- Bachelor's degree colleges: $85,050 (year-over-year change: +2.22%)
- Regional colleges and universities: $84,697 (year-over-year change: +3.02%)
- Art, music, and design schools: $86,166 (year-over-year change: -0.01%)
- Faith-related institutions: $66,155 (year-over-year change: +5.70%)
- No Community colleges in Maryland or its salary information is not available.
Maryland Colleges 2025 Faculty Salary and Increase Rate by Academic Rank and School Type
The following table shows the average annual salary for maryland colleges' faculty by academic rank in the academic year 2024-2025. The average amount is based on a 9-month contract or equated employees. You can check the average salary information for your desired state and school category.
State
| Academic Rank | All Colleges | R1 Universities | R2 Universities | Master's Colleges | BS Colleges | Community Colleges |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Faculty Total | $88,952 2.93% |
$147,506 4.19% |
$100,422 4.13% |
$84,697 3.02% |
$85,050 2.22% |
- - |
| Professor | $110,312 2.31% |
$197,649 4.07% |
$129,485 5.59% |
$102,473 3.08% |
$104,773 2.10% |
- - |
| Associate professor | $94,094 2.71% |
$141,730 3.82% |
$105,981 2.74% |
$84,987 2.36% |
$88,808 5.36% |
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| Assistant professor | $81,624 1.33% |
$119,410 2.10% |
$90,908 0.11% |
$76,784 2.64% |
$70,949 1.12% |
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| Instructor | $73,708 4.95% |
$85,120 6.33% |
$68,296 5.58% |
$70,409 9.01% |
$75,111 20.33% |
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| Lecturer | $70,268 9.42% |
$92,270 4.27% |
$70,190 6.23% |
$61,929 3.65% |
$62,193 61.79% |
- - |
| No academic rank | $96,514 16.19% |
$73,344 7.82% |
- - |
- - |
$110,979 24.10% |
- - |
Updated: July 1, 2025
Maryland Colleges Paying Highest faculty Salary
- Johns Hopkins University $171,360
- University of Maryland-College Park $153,599
- University of Maryland, Baltimore $131,963
- University of Baltimore $126,386
- University of Maryland-Baltimore County $117,560
- Morgan State University $103,891
- Bowie State University $99,805
- University of Maryland Eastern Shore $96,952
- Salisbury University $96,239
- Coppin State University $90,805